California has accumulated $600 million in unclaimed nickel and dime deposits for recyclable cans and bottles.
To get the state's nearly 40 million residents to recycle more and send more deposits back to them, Gov.administration unveiled a plan Friday to temporarily double to a dime the refund for a 12-ounce bottle or can. California already pays 10 cents on containers over 24 ounces , and that would temporarily double to 20 cents.
"That money isn’t doing anybody any good sitting in the bank," Court said. "We need a complete structural fix, but this is a good interim step." It’s uncertain if any boost in recycling would last once the higher price ends, Sanborn acknowledged, but she hopes instead California will decide to make the increase permanent. She's also hopeful pressure from states will spur attempts by U.S. Rep. Alan Lowenthal of California and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon to craft a national bottle bill.
Recycled plastic bottles sit on a conveyor belt to be processed at the Repreve Bottle Processing Center, part of the Unifi textile company in Reidsville, N.C. Many of California's recyclables go to China, which toughened standards in 2017 on accepting contaminated material, including plastics. The move "totally slammed the recycling industry" nationwide, said Kate O’Neill, a University of California, Berkeley, environmental science professor and author of the 2019 book "Waste."The U.S.
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California Has $600M in Unclaimed Can, Bottle DepositsCalifornia is sitting on a $600 million pile of unclaimed nickel and dime deposits on recyclable cans and bottles and now wants to give some of that back to consumers.
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California Has $600M In Unclaimed Can, Bottle Deposits; Newsom Looks To Increase PayoutsCalifornia is sitting on a $600 million pile of unclaimed nickel and dime deposits on recyclable cans and bottles and now wants to give some of that back to consumers.
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California has $600 million in unclaimed can, bottle depositsCalifornia is sitting on a $600 million pile of unclaimed nickel and dime deposits on recyclable cans and bottles and now wants to give some of that back to consumers.
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