Posted on 07/27/2023 10:40:15 AM PDT by lowbridge
Bull Hocky.
Would seem that unless CA had a specific law against that they don’t have a leg to stand on. They would have to prove that the family had the intent to fraud, not just an intent to recycle for the environment. Additionally, it really just shows that the “tax” on cans when bought is the more important thing rather than saving the environment.
Too bad they are not as concerned about illegally imported illegal alien invaders.
Thank you. I wasn’t thinking of it that way.
Not possible, two regulation sized garbage cans full of collapsed aluminum cans, will get you about $12 from recyclers. You need semi loads to make any money.
Who cares? They recycled bottles and cans period. That’s the goal right?
“If they’ve already been redeemed within California, why are they not in the possession of the state of CA?”
My guess would be that the State does not, itself, recycle the bottles, but sells them in bulk to someone who promises to do so. That may have been part of the scam.
Good grief, can anyone tell me where I can get money for empty cans and bottles? I’m pretty sure WV doesn’t have such a place. I throw out a huge bag of empty bottles every week. No, not liquor bottles. Water & fruit juice.
Need liquor bottles to throw away? Can contribute.
He may not have been using consumer available bags.
The bag was huge, that’s all I can say. It looked twice as tall as the man who was collecting it.
Don’t forget also that the CRV on taxable items is taxable, so the state makes money on that.
In Lynchburg, Virginia there was a man named Johnny that came back from the war in Korea not quite right in the head. Couldn’t hold down a job, wife kicked him out so he lived wherever he could. Usually in an abandoned house or something.
Back in the day Johnny would pick up returnable bottles and turn them in at the store for eating money and whatnot. He would collect cans from bars and save that money for long term use. He had two bars that fed him every night for mopping up for them.
Once a week someone with a truck would take Johnny and his cans to the recycler and he would put that money in the bank. Johnny saved enough to put both of his kids through the Community College.
Unfortunately when Johnny died his kids showed up and ripped through the old house he was living in looking for more money. Not finding any they went home, leaving his body unclaimed.
The businesses that knew johnny put out collection jars and we all gave the old fella a grand send off. He had a nice casket and the preacher gave a fine service and the fella was laid to rest with a beautiful headstone.
That is very sad for him. I cannot imagine having children so ungrateful for the sacrifices of the parents.
Tax and tax refund
Yep, their Dad spent a lifetime eating bologna sandwiches and pork and beans and picking up cans and bottles so he could send them to college.
Just goes to show what you can do a little at a time.
The article doesn’t specify a law that was violated. Is this something made up on the fly by the courts?
LOL, sorry I don’t have any liquor bottles. Never could stand the stuff.
The same clip of newman and kramer came to mind, funny
Exactly. If the fund was to get cans and bottles recycled and out of a landfill, CA is defeating its purpose.
Reportedly, there is a california law which forbids people from recycling materials, cans, bottles, that were brought in from outside the state.
If one buys a can of soda in California from any California merchant, it may be redeemed. But if one buys a can of soda in the state of Arizona, for example, but attempts to redeem the can in California, that’s against the law. That’s my understanding of their law.
How they enforce it, I don’t know. I imagine most people get away with it. But this was too big of an operation to go unnoticed.
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