VT bottle/can deposit?

Submitted by tossawayintheend t3_yjl4zo in vermont

Had anyone else noticed that the deposit on hard seltzers made with actual spirits (vodka, gin, tequila, etc) is $0.15 instead of the usual $0.05?

It makes sense that it's the same as the deposit on liquor, but I have my doubts redemption centers are sorting those out and paying triple the per can amount...

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durpdurpturd t1_iupegen wrote

5cent deposit is too low. It may have been a motivator to save your cans in the 70’s but isn’t anymore. 15 or even 25 cents a can would prevent them from ending up in the trash or on the side of the road in 2022 which is the intent of the program it seems.

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Distinguished_Parrot t1_iuoxrzn wrote

Maybe this will finally be the biennium that the legislature can get past Coca-Cola's lobbying/astroturfing and passes a consistent bottle bill for all drinks sold in aluminum or plastic containers like water and iced teas and wine bottles.

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MarkVII88 t1_iur96wj wrote

I guarantee that when I bring my trash bags full of cans/bottles to the redemption center the folks doing the sorting are not counting $0.15 for an empty bottle of gin or vodka in amongst the hundreds of other cans I'm returning at the same time. And you know what? I don't care at all.

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tossawayintheend OP t1_iusbyk2 wrote

Yeah, I'm not worried about onesie-twosie things, I'm talking about a whole bag full of vodka hard seltzer cans. You're damn right I want those counted at $0.15 each.

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Effinehright t1_iuskwzf wrote

Well if your shit was clean and in a box the way all these centers prefer they definitely would. But also they have to give it to tomra and for them to get paid it has to be properly sorted or theyll get short changed. I don't believe changing the deposit higher or lower will stop the trashy alcoholics from throwing their cans out the window. Drunks gonna drunk just like junky gonna junky.

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tossawayintheend OP t1_iut8bw2 wrote

Are you suggesting I should save the box they came in and return them in that same box? That's gonna be a no for me dawg.

What I'm suggesting is if you can buy it at a gas station or a grocery store, then it should be the same deposit as everything else you can buy at those places, irrespective of what kind of alcohol is in it.

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Effinehright t1_iuw1w5w wrote

no I am suggesting you rinse your stuff out and put it in a box. I am fine with no deposit as I don't believe it has affected littering in decades aside from those who are in position to use them as income.

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