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National deposit bill could reduce waste

Zdroj/Source: Bottle Bills in the News National deposit bill could reduce waste (June 12, 2009)
 

HOME Archive 2009 21.06.2009 National deposit bill could reduce waste
 

A national bottle deposit bill introduced in the House of Representatives would add a nickel to the cost of a beverage sold in a plastic bottle or aluminum can.

The Bottle Recycling Climate Protection Act of 2009 (Bill Text/File name:  H.R.2046 Introduced in House - Last Updated 04/24/2009) would require a retailer who sells the same brand of beverage in the same kind and size package to accept empty, unbroken returns and refund the deposit.

People of a certain age and older can recall when most soda bottles were returnable. Then, aluminum cans - and later, two-liter bottles - became popular, and this form of reusing (the glass bottles were cleaned and refilled) fell by the wayside. Literally.

Put the emphasis on litter. No deposit, no return too often results in just that: bottles and cans discarded in landfills or strewn on the side of the road.

A return to deposits would reduce that litter. In Michigan, which requires dime deposits on beverage containers, highest in the nation, also sees 97 percent of the cans and bottles returned.

Granted, because the containers would be recycled, not reused, this wouldn't reduce the number of bottles produced each year. But it would reduce the number deposited in landfills or tossed along byways.

And recycling uses fewer resources, according to bottle-bill advocates. Recycling a ton of plastic saves 5,774 kilowatt hours of electricity and 685 gallons of oil, and making cans from recycled aluminum instead of new resources consumes 95 percent less energy.

Of course, returning bottles and cans for a deposit would be an inconvenience for customers and a hassle for retailers. Retailers would have to handle empties and fork over refunds.

Plus, recyclers may take a hit, too, as bottles and cans leave the waste stream. At current scrap metal prices, it would be better to get your nickel back than sell a can to a recycler.

The bill states that in 2006, feer than half of the 100 billion aluminum beverage cans used were recycled; as a result, 800,000 tons of aluminum was wasted. Nine of 10 plastic water bottles -  at least 27 billion a year - ended up as trash or litter, which take up to 1,000 years to degrade.

The deposit would encourage people to return the containers. And cans and bottles littering the land would be worth even more to pick up.

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