Good point. That's why I would like to see a significant deposit for them. It's not just in my neighborhood they are littered with them; it's all over town.
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Back in the days when beer cans were made out of tin they littered the roadsides by the hundreds.
Tin cans had (and still have) so little value that people didn't bother to pick them up to recycle.
Driving at night the shiny tin can bottoms reflecting light from car headlights looked like hundreds of little lights or reflectors lining the roads.
But when the brewers changed to aluminum cans that people could recycle for money the beer can litter went away almost overnight.
The intrinsic value of the aluminum serves, more or less, as a built in deposit.
Now it is rare to see an empty beer can laying around anywhere.
In places where there is now a deposit on glass or plastic beverage bottles you don't often see them littering the streets.
In places where there is no deposit people just toss them anywhere.
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