But it's such a small deposit. I'd rather see a $1 or $2 deposit to encourage more people to do their own recycling, to discourage single usage containers, which I think the US's culture would benefit from.
Heck, even at 2.5 and 5 cents, California had a bottle recycling rate of 102% a few years back. Just bringing legit bottles across the border was a profitable activity until they started cracking down.
That's an interesting point. I bet the price of plastic has gone down since the original value was chosen. I wonder what price point makes fraud economical on a large enough scale to attract someone with access to manufacturing...
I agree wholeheartedly. It should be a much bigger deposit, and then bottles should be reused rather than recycled (which is the worst of the three things we should be doing).
On Ontario, Canada it's simply a way of life that you bring in a box of empty beer bottles and put them on a rack on your way into the beer store in replacement for the box of full beer you're about to pick up. So in that way you only ever pay the deposit once.
