Surprise, Californians!
This is a TAX and a revenue steam for Moon Beam and his crew...enjoy!
Correct. CA government increasingly keeps for itself the container tax, collected at the point of sale, when there is no easy way for Joe Sixpack to turn in the containers for a refunding of the container tax.
This scheme also is bad for recycling, with bigger landfills from more discarded recyclables.
Effectively, the state gov benefits from reduced recycling and more pollution.
The Rats are thus proven perverse liars, once more.