New in 2024: Californians can redeem empty wine and liquor containers for cash to cut trash
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Californians can ring in 2024 by redeeming their empty wine and liquor containers for cash. Starting January 1, California adds wine and liquor sold in bottles, cans, boxes, and pouches to the state’s Beverage Container Recycling Program to cut waste and pollution by turning more recycled materials into new products.
What’s new for consumers?
Californians pay a 5, 10, or 25 cent California Redemption Value (CRV) deposit on newly added wine and liquor containers and redeem deposits at recyclers or obligated retailers.
- Newly added containers are not required to have CRV labeling until Jul 1, 2025.
- Bag-in-box containers must be intact to be eligible for redemption.
What’s new for businesses?
- Stores update shelf labels and systems to reflect new CRV container additions.
- Recycling centers and obligated retailers redeem newly added beverages and container types (with or without a CRV label).
- Beverage manufacturers and distributors register and submit CRV payments.
California is implementing several historic Bottle Bill reforms to recycle more beverage containers and make redemption easier for consumers.
- In addition to wine and liquor, large juice containers are redeemable starting Jan. 1.
- Retailers in areas without recycling centers must redeem in-store or join new dealer cooperative systems starting Jan 1, 2025.
- Over $285 million to increase material reuse and recycling sites with funding for:
- Hassle-free redemption options like reverse vending machines, mobile recycling, and bag-drop recycling.
- Beverage container recycling business start-up costs.
- Reuse/refill system innovations for beverage containers.
- Collection, transportation, and remanufacturing of materials.
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BEVERAGE CONTAINER RECYCLING PROGRAM FAST FACTS
- California passed its Bottle Bill in 1986 to reduce litter and increase recycling.
- California collected 491 billion beverage containers for recycling since 1988, including a record 19.5 billion beverage containers in 2022.
- California’s current beverage container recycling rate is 70%.
- With the addition of wine and spirits, CalRecycle estimates about 1.1 billion additional wine and spirits containers could enter the program each year.
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i lost interest in recycling when I realized a lot off it was just being shipped to Asia to grease the rails of the global order.
I am however, into making it easy to redeem taxed containers.
this is long past overdue to update this tax on consumers.
I wonder how system planners will set parameters on what constitutes a community with no redemption center?
can they force the towns only retailer to somehow open a side business in scrap metal?
might the shelter stove store now become a hub for redemption value with vehicle lines up and down the road?
to be equitable to non-drivers, and to be true to the intention (at least the marketing) of the recycle tax, every retailer selling redeemable containers must be forced to buy them back.
this implies hiring more full time staff specific to the side business of sorting, weighing, trucking, all of that.
no “reverse” soda machine can handle the amount of cans I’m bringing down to get my money.
It’s worse than that, they just grind up the glass and put it in the dump. They justify it by calling it “filter material”.
Everybody knows that it is just another tax. We do all the collecting and all of the accounting and the State gets all the money. Then they make it dang near impossible to get the money back. Plus, you never get full redemption value back when you return it.
Just when I almost got my filthy mouthed “logger language” cleaned up they start this balloney.
Remember when they forced everybody to use fluorescent lights? Now we have to haul all the light bulbs to Eureka and PAY more than the cost new to get rid of the Damn things. Ahh… to hell with it. Sometimes swearing is the only thing they haven’t taxed… yet.
“Sometimes swearing is the only thing they haven’t taxed… yet.”
It will affect your social credit score…
No you don’t. Put them in a garbage can, recycle, hit them with a hammer and voila, compact fluorescent light…do it quick and don’t breath.
Right, now try to find a place to redeem your stolen money.
Great!
This is awesome and a late welcome to recycling in CA.
My 55 gal of wine and liquor bottles is suddenly valuable.
So glad I didn’t head into town for recycling lately.
Me, too.
You might want to wait until at least Tuesday…?♂️
https://kymkemp.com/2023/12/27/chp-implementing-maximum-enforcement-period-friday-through-monday/
Here’s an idea to debate… …maybe just “?”, (that’s what I did, and not a moment too soon…), and I say that as a friend, even though you probably don’t consider me one…?♂️
You will save the most that way, and enjoy the greatest possible economic benefit, not to mention the greatest health benefit, and you know what they say, “health is wealth”.
Take care.
Happy New Year.
I appreciate your recycling ♻️
No recycling alcohol containers necessary, here.
(Lots of water bottles, though,?♂️)
That’s just one of the beauties of quitting alcohol…
Not to mention saving the liver, etc., (especially the brain), from being poisoned.
I don’t miss the grief, the puking, the hangovers, the stupidity, the conflicts, the risks, and all the “wasted” time that it involved.
Looking back, I frequently asked myself, why did I ever do that, because drinking just no longer made any sense at all.
And there is never a question of if I am drunk driving, or even an issue of it’s “residual toxicity”, not to mention all of the appurtenant “trash” involved that I don’t have to deal with.
If nothing else, imagine all the money there is to be saved… Plenty…!!!
There are no economic disadvantages to not drinking alcohol, and there are no economic benefits of drinking it.
But hey, it’s your liver, and your brain.
One is free to poison them and pickle them, if one so desires…
Recycled livers are sometimes available, some conditions apply.
That’s the beauty of America.
Our brains, on the other hand, we are stuck with for life, regardless of whether or not they cease to function properly.
Under the influence, from the inside, looking out, nothing changes.
From the outside, looking in, it definitely does.
Just an observation.
Peace.
substitute sugar, meat, pot, the lottery, or anything else for drinking and it’s advantages/disadvanteges, would you still feel the same ? asking for a friend
Ehh, I’m an alcoholic who loves beer but at least I have the knowledge/self awareness to know that it is literally poison that affects every cell in your body… it’s not a good thing…
Compared to everything you listed alcohol is by far the worst in terms of disadvantageous results.
DAMN! WELL SAID!!!?
Water bottles are a horrible habit.
The Earth does far better without em.
valuables.
In addition to wine and liquor, large juice containers are redeemable starting Jan. 1.
I wonder what a “large” juice container might be.
The ones from Costco.
“Redeemable”…???
Translation:
They are gonna cost you an extra quarter, for each and every one.
Good luck getting your money back for them, that will just cost you even more time and money to do.
“Let them eat pennies”
Sounds nice, but, how much are they going to tack on to each wine or rum bottle? More than we’ll be able to redeem, that’s for darn sure. Like others have said, just another tax. The only ones it’ll benefit are those currently with a collection of these containers.