Deposits

[pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Ebony AKA AngieJ" <ebonyink at h...> wrote:
[snip]
> Speaking of deposits, that's another thing that's weird here.
> We're the only state with a 10-cent deposit on almost EVERY
> soft drink container.  (There's another handful of states with
> a 5-cent deposit law).  This means you have to pay for the pop,
> then add 10 cents to EACH bottle or can you purchase.  So if
> you buy a six-pack of Faygo, you're paying the price plus 60
> cents.  This means we don't throw cans away... we rinse them
> carefully, we place them in special bins in our houses (or stack
> them on the side of the sink) and then drive them faithfully back
> to the store.  Homeless people and desperate college students at
> Michigan collect empty pop cans for a little spare change as
> well.  ;-)

In Norway we have had deposits for soda-bottles for a long time, and 
a couple of years ago, we got deposits on cans as well (at the same 
time as a particular waste-tax was removed from cans, meaning they 
got somewhere near competitive prices).  With exception of the Coca 
Cola 0.333l (12oz) variety, all soda-bottles are plastic.  Standard 
bottles come in 0.5l and 1.5l (20oz and 60oz) variants.  Cans come in 
12-oz, and, to a lesser degree, 20-oz.  Cans and small bottles have 
15cent in deposit, large bottles have ca. 40 cent.  

[snip]
> 
> --Ebony (who really ought to take the 70-odd pop cans and
> bottles she has stashed between her trunk and the coat closet
> back to the store one day... that's a good seven dollars right
> there, and I could treat myself to a matinee.  ;-))

Best regards
Christian Stubø