Because they LIED when they said it was a deposit fee, It was really a tax.
Hey rey,
What is your experience of CA not paying?
PS, they put sales tax on the deposit; that you do NOT get back.
Here in MA, I no longer ever return cans/bottles for the deposit.
It’s effectively a tax. The left won this battle, and I don’t have time nor the inclination to fight it. There are bigger battles to be waged, and no clear indicator whether they will be won or lost.
We had a battle on a gax tax increase, and won on that one at least.
It’s government, however evil.
They were entirely unaccountable.
In a tyrannical form of govt, they can do anything they want.
Fugeddaboudit, Rey.
It’s California................
Is that a serious question, rey?
You can recycle and get money back
Yellow invest
Good point.
And I’ve always been amazed how they force people to re-register the same vehicle over and over and over for $$$, regardless if the title/ownership/address never change. This is is a big league con-job. Like when they promised cable TV would be commercial free.
Drug cartel money.
According to the above, you receive your payout from privately-run recycling centers, not from the State of Kalifornia.
California isn’t alone in this. Other states charge fees for soda bottle and cans, usually .05 cents. Iowa did when I lived there back in the day.
Almost all states charge your a fee when you have your oil changed. I had to get a new battery for my car in November and they charge a fee for replacing the battery.
Give them a reason and they will charge you.
Even when your garbage is picked up those that sort out the plastic bottles for recycling are virtue signaling, when the reality is those get thrown in the land fills because recycling is not profitable.
We recycle both our bottles and our used motor oil through our scavenger company. I do not know for sure, but I will bet you that the scavenger company is collecting the money from the State for both of these items. For years the scavenger companies fought having to collect “recyclables,” now they are “all in” for these programs, so there must be substantial money involved.
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.
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.