[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Methanolic

1 quadrant (likely the 2nd smallest) 10 days 3500 bucks.

The Cities estimate of $180,000 (annually) during a project in it's infantsy is hard to beleive and "low balling" in their favour.....gee! surprise!!

Do the math, it's more like upwards of a half million annually, if not more.

without actuall $ figures from an audit, this is a moot discussion, Having said that, there are a lot of people in this town that don't return refundables and are likely tossing them into their blue bins along with soup cans etc.

Bottom line, even if the City was pulling in 1.5 Million via the blue bin, we'd never hear about it.

Even at half a milliom the cost reduction you could potentially see (Assuming the city didn't take any of this into account, which the article says they did), is still only 42 cents. And that's assuming the 100 000 bins is correct, which with a little googling I found out isn't correct at all.
There are actually more like 320 000.

So with your half a million estimate, and the actual number of bins at 320 000, we're still in the range of 13 cents/month reduction.

Bottom line, even if the city were pulling in $1.5 million, it wouldn't make an appreciable dent in the cost of the program.