Do you have to pay a refundable deposit on bottles and cans?

Its a good idea to take a deposit. Here in India too they take a deposit for the bottles but not for the can. Its really disgusting to see the cans lying around. Well those cans do fetch some money for rag pickers. I am more concered about the plastic covers of chocolates and other stuffs which will be scattered all along the road causing pollution. What do you say about this?

I think it may possibly make a slight difference. We don't have the deposit here in Missouri but should probably consider it.

California has a refundable deposit and people still dump bottles and cans on the beach. Its terrible just how many we find there. I don't think the deposit is solving the littering problem in my area. Its sad, as there are so many places to return them, but people can't be bothered to save the environment.

When I was in college, the canteen charged a deposit for bottles so people would return their bottles for their deposit. I saw it as a way of making more money from students and started an anonymous campaign which snowballed and eventually got the deposit removed.

Kansas doesn't have a deposit. I believe there was talk about it, but nothing came of it. I wish they would. They would rather that we pay them to make money. I'm not sure that all places are doing it but at one time they wanted us to pay a recycling fee. In other words we would be paying them to make money off of our recycling. I remember going on bottle hunts. Never lacked for spending change when I was a kid. I wish they would go back to the old bottles.

Yes, we pay a deposit but I'm not sure that it makes a difference in the litter. I know that when I was walking outside all the time, I would collect bottles and cans and add those to the ones I recycled myself. It's an extra 10 cents per 2 liter bottle, I think 5 cents per smaller bottle. That's still not bad if you pick up 10 bottles. I pick up extras sometimes just because I know I'll get a little extra back.

No not anymore although I used to from a certain shop I went to then you got the money back so it was alright.

I think depending on where you live is what matters with how much trash you see on the ground. I remember about 5 years ago being in Ocean City Maryland and seeing they have seperate garbage bins along the streets to hold the bottles and cans. I do not think they have bottle redemption there. Here in PA they do not have bottle deposits. I live close enought that I go shopping for groceries etc in NY so I save up all the cans and return them when I am in NY and get the 5 cents for them. It works out well actually because I can buy bottles in PA such as coca cola etc and not pay a deposit and take them to NY and return them and get the 5 cents for the deposit so its basically free money. My husband and I used to go around and collect cans when we first started dating. It was a good way to clean up the streets as well as earn some extra money but it was gross because sometimes there would be nasty stuff inside the cans and then we would have to transport them to the bottle redemption places. I remember once when we had cans in my trunk and then went to return them my trunk had maggots all over. It was disgusting! I guess thats why you should clean them first hehe. So now if we have cans we obviously rinse them out first before bagging them up so it wont attract flies or anything else.

Hi there! Here in the Philippines only sodas in bottles have deposits when you buy. But not all stores requires deposits. People are just honest enough to return the bottles to the stores. Cans and other bottles can be sold at junk shops. Sometimes there are people who pick the cans and bottles from trash when consumers throws them. So there are few found in the streets. Me I have learned to collect them and when I have several already I sell them to the junk shop myself and earn extra money. Yes it somehow does lessens the trash especially if you can earn money from them. Ciao!

yes i lived in michigan and was there many years. it was a normal part of shopping to take bottles back in for the refund. that's all that i ever knew. then visitors would come from out of state and throw bottles in trash. i said why are you throwing away money. they were from michigan but moved away and forgot. i couldn't understand because i thot it was the same everywhere. now i'm living in missouri and there is no refund.