Tires flat tire, damn!

[GlennT]

Bird--Amen. I am constantly picking up cans, aluminum foil wrappers, empty feed sacks, parts of old plastic tarps, etc. in the ditch next to our place. However, it could be worse. For several months, someone would dump off cigarette butts, cans and DIRTY DISPOSABLE DIAPERS in the ditch next to my place--right in the culvert at the intersection to a dead-end road in a subdivision. Gosh, I hate to pick up dirty diapers. Fortunately, the kid apparently has grown out of diapers because I haven't found any lately.

 

[patrickg]

Bottle deposit. Indeed, I'd rather have a bounty on literers. Yeah, when I lived in CA there was a deposit on containers, 5 cents on a two liter. Eons ago it was two cents on a 6 oz Coke bottle. What about cost of living indexing!!! Alternatively (tho still prefering the bounty) I'd vote for a Federal container deposit and a Federal law against unlawful disposal of a Federal deposit container. I would not exempt anything refillable, recycleable, or otherwise. I think if a beer bottle was worth a quarter, empty, it wouldn't be under my tires. Similarly milk bottles and many other food containers determined by the numbers found disposed of in an unauthorized manner. There would be a homeless supporters riot 'cause the poor unfortunates can hardly buy dog food now, let alone if there were a 25 cent deposit on the can. My claim is that it is a zero sum game. Once you have some containers there is no additional cost. Perhaps the sellers of the offending products could be charged a fee per container high enough to make them offer a "reward" for the return of empties. If I were selling cold soda and paying the Government say 20 cents for each can sold and the Government paid me 20 cents for every can I turned in to recycling (above and beyond the value of aluminum or plastic) I would sure encourage folks to return the cans. I might hire some indigents to pick up cans for a fee.

Patrick

 

[mlmartin]

A nickel per container seems to work here without a major bureaucracy. The redemption centers get 7 cents for each container they return to the bottlers. There are some huge redemption centers around that return a lot of nickels for the two cent fee. Unclaimed deposits go to the state's general fund which gives the bottlers an incentive to keep the return rate high.

There is action being taken to extend the deposit beyond carbonated beverages. If adopted, virtually all beverage containers will be covered, including water, wine and liquor bottles. Those damned "nip" bottles are about the only thing I see on the lawn nowadays.

Given that nearly everyone is required to separate recyclables here, putting a deposit on mayonaise jars would probably be counterproductive.

Matthew

 

[mlmartin]

Oh! The addition of insuilt to injury/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

I sttart up the tractor this morning and dorve 20 feet during which time the (very) recently repaired tire went flat again/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif

The tube had an invisible pinhole. Took the wheel in and got it repaired. They were very apologetic and only charged me for a "second patch" $8.50 and swallowed the labor fee.

Matthew