LCBO to Introduce Bottle Deposit System
I just learned (via 680 News) that the Liquor Control Board of Ontario will be introducing a new bottle deposit system (similar to The Beer Store), starting Feb. 2007, in an effort to promote bottle recycling.
Hmmm…not sure what to make of this.
On the one hand, I think it’s great that the LCBO is trying to promote recycling - perhaps this will be the perfect way to get those people who never use their blue box to at least start recyling their booze bottles. On the other hand, given the larger size of liquor and wine bottles, I can see this potentially irritating some people.
One person quoted in the article feels it’s a waste of time and only adds more greenhouse emissions to the atmosphere (resulting from people driving to return the bottles). I see what this person is saying, but at the same time I might argue that people would only typically return bottles if they were on their way to buy more anyway.
Regardless, it will be interesting to see how this pans out. Hopefully it will indeed result in a higher rate of recycling.
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Written by Bentley on December 1st, 2006 with
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Bentley
#1. January 15th, 2007, at 5:40 PM.
I truly feel that this is a knee jerk reaction to a perceived problem. It is a duplication of a service that already exists, the recycling truck already pick these bottles up every week. Why in the world would you now start paying the beer store to take these bottles back that are unrelated to their business. And yes there will be emissions generated every time some one drives to the beer store to return their empties.