Californians pay more than $1 billion in beverage-container deposits annually, but few bother to redeem the empties.
pay about $1.5 billion in recycling deposits
That’s largely because so few redemption centers exist that the state now holds $672 million in unrefunded deposits that really belong to the public. Adding insult to indignity, we forfeit millions of empty containers to waste hauler recycling bins. Those trash haulers bill the state for our California Refund Value, or CRV, while contaminating and landfilling at least a third of those empties., which was authored by Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins. The law finally puts the responsibility for California CRV refunds onto stores that sell the products whose shells become trash.
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