If saving the environment is the goal then this is no scam.
If charging consumers a tax on every bottle sold is the goal, then it is the government which is perpetrating a scam.
But collecting non-deposited bottles and returning them to a state that refunds against deposited bottles is fraud. I don’t think anyone worries about a few here or there, but to intentionally try to profit across state lines is abusive and upends the recycling efforts of the state collecting and refunding deposits.
Yup.
Wyy didnt he just do this 5-7000 bottles a time? Several times? I mean it would,not be that difficult to split them up into smaller dropoffs.
The problem is that the people pay the sellers a deposit for every can or bottle, you essentially steal from the people and the state by bringing out of state cans and bottles.
Actually, I agree.
I have never heard that this was illegal.