Can we sue Tim Hortons here in Canada as well? Coffee cups and plastic lids everywhere at every intersection and park.
What about the cigarette companies. When I got bored walking down the highway I started counting to ten …. One one thousand, two sing a song …. There’s always a cigarette butt before you get to ten
How is it Pepsi’s fault that their consumers are assholes?
Maybe make citywide recycling programs clean, easy to use, and accessible?
Heck, Oregon figured this out in 1971 - $0.05 deposit on cans, $0.10 on glass bottles. Recently upped to $0.10 on everything.
Turn the cans and bottles into recycling, get the money back. Taking cans and bottles back to the store was how I went to the movies as a kid.
Most other developed countries have done this for decades on end. Unfortunately, in many red states there’s an aversion against recycling and cash value for returning. You know, government overreach, yada yada.
Oh, agreed, but this is New York… home of the large soda tax…
Would it be so hard to have cachiers scan a unique code on each product purchased that ties it to the sales receipt?
Law enforcement could use that to track the purchaser and fine them for littering. Absolutely not anything different than now when law enforcement uses receipts found at illegal campsites or illegal dumps and using that the same way.
Just got to force companies to comply.
There is way too much tracking of my information as it is. I don’t need my name tracked every time I buy a coke. Maybe it’s time to move on from plastic bottling. Be better to move on to something that is actually recyclable or at least breaks down when disposed.
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That does sound hard, and difficult to implement. Better to make the packaging compostable.
Oh sweet, soda that’s leaking before you even buy it
Why?
Trouble is that the companies packaging is not sustainable and not environmental friendly. Pushing the recycling of this onto consumers is somewhat “unethical” in a sense.
The packing should be fully sustainable, and if not the company’s that create the product should have a system in place the receive and properly reuse the packaging or dispose of it in a environment friendly way.
Recycling programs are run by the government payed for by the people and corporations abuse these systems that we pay for with our taxes. Generally creating products that can’t be recycled.
I agree people should not litter, but sometimes items are actually disposed of properly, but when garbage crews come by or the litter is on the way to the landfill it flys of the truck and picked up by the wind. Not to mention sometimes open dumpster areas are not the best at keeping garbage and litter contained.
Yes ending privacy as we know it, to solve litter.
Isn’t that avoidable by paying cash? Either that or people can only use card to pay for products with recyclable packaging, which seems severe and kind of authoritarian.
Just make the deposit equal to the price of the product.
A three dollar bottle of coke has a three dollar deposit. You get your three dollars back when you take it to a bottle center.
But that would hurt consumer demand. Can’t have that!
So it’s all supposed to be free? The actual soda inside, the machinery for bottling etc. ?
Also, how would free stuff hurt consumer demand? It would hurt income, yes, but not demand .
Also also, do people really need that much of a incentive to throw their shit away at the appropriate place rather than just on the curb?
No no no, I mean the price should be doubled and half be a deposit.
And yes, take a walk next to a highway. They need this.
