Posted on 01/17/2019 9:20:06 AM PST by rey
In PA, when you bring back a battery to buy another battery, the dealer is supposed to reduce the price of the battery by the value of the ‘core charge’ from the previous battery.
in my experience, they do that.
My husband worked at an auto parts store, and always gets the core charge off the battery he’s buying. The make the changeover more convenient, he’s kept one old battery at home to turn in when he buys a new one. No one seems to care if he returns a battery from a different vehicle.
What does the store do with the batteries? They store all the batteries till their battery recycle truck come and hauls them to an authorized recycle facility to have the lead, acid,an anything else recyclable treated the way the state wants. The state wants to keep them from being disposed of where the more toxic materials don’t end up in streams or groundwater.
Not that I ‘believe’ in it, I just know how it works. The core charge is pretty high, like $20.00.
I heard that in MA, the solons and a BHO bud governor tried to put a sales tax on beer. There was already an excise tax on it.
Can't remember if it was a court, or more likely the people took to the stree...um, initiative petition process, to roll the tax-on-a-tax back.
SOB’s in North Carolina charge TAX on Your: Car, Truck, Boat, Trailer, Jet Ski, Etc EVERY YEAR !!! On top of Sales Tax when purchased.
Damned THEIVES.
You can get your deposit money back by going to the state authorized recycling center near you. The catch is that you will only be able to bring in 50 of each type of container for cash. So, if you have 50 cans, 50 plastic bottles and 50 glass bottles, you can load them in your car, make a special trip to the recycler, stand in line with all the homeless and poor people who collect the containers out of trash cans, and get your whopping $7.50. Not worth the hassle for 99% of people, making it just another tax.
When I lived in Calif-—I got paid back when I took the bottles for refund.
NEVADA, however charges 5Cents & doesn’t have facilities where you can return the bottles.
THAT is a SCAM.
“battery for my car.”
Thanks for the correction - for a minute I thought you were Pelosi Galore and referring to your internal battery pack...
You can’t recycle and get your deposits back when all the recycling centers are closed or so far away that it makes no financial sense.
Yeah, just do it on Mother’s Day.
Tough to be you
I suffer greatly
You can take it/them to a designated regional recycling center, or to a business outside the demarcated recycling area that sells beverages. Such retailers are legally obligated to post a sign and take recyclables for deposit returns.
Leftist slackers (homeless or not) go around collecting from trash cans, and then bullying small private businesses into taking enormous quantities of cans and bottles for cash return, threatening to sic the government on them if they refuse.
Large retailers like Safeway or Walgreen’s could voluntarily be the de facto recycler for areas outside the recycling depot’s jurisdiction, but typically do not. The slackers cannot bully them, and would get in trouble themselves for vagrancy or harassment if they persisted.
The small business where I worked stopped selling all beverages so that these arrogant hippies could no longer force their piles of cans and bottles on the store, which did not have a means to store or convey the huge quantities dumped in the store during business hours.
I know all of this from bitter personal experience. The adjacent Walgreen’s was impervious to the two slackers persecuting my boss. He finally banned all beverages to get rid of them. Typical communist policy: Everybody loses.
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