It’s a quarter for boxed wine!! Really though, this title is misleading. It should say “California Redemption Value deposit charge to be added to liquor and juice containers starting in January.”
They add it to the price of the product at checkout, it’s a “deposit” that you are able to get back if you want to save up your containers and drive them to the recycling center.
I see this mostly benefiting people who make a few dollars a day digging through public (and not so public) trash receptacles looking for things with CRV to turn in.
It pisses me off that we have to pay any fee at all when we aren’t the ones who choose a product’s packaging.
Companies should be paying the whole thing … including recycling costs. Then maybe they’d start packaging responsibly.
For things that can’t be recycled, I would agree. But if it can be, then it still needs to be brought to a recycling facility to make that happen. Without this incentive, a lot more of it will end up in landfills.
If the companies had to pay per bottle, do you really think they’d still be using single use packaging like that?
They’d install refill stations in stores and sell you a reusable bottle that you can fill up from their metered tap at the refill station.
Companies created the problem of single use packaging; the onus is not on individuals to solve a problem created by companies.