10-05-21 22:30 Nightfox wrote to Ed Vance about Beverage container deposi Howdy! Nightfox,
Re: Beverage container deposi
By: Ed Vance to Nightfox on Tue Oct 05 2021 09:44 pm
The two States I have lived in use to have a Deposit on Glass Soft
Drink Bottles and Glass Beer Bottles but that was long ago.
Here it's not just glass soda & beer bottles - it's all beverage
bottles and cans, including soda, beer, water, juice, etc..
I don't know if there is any deposit on Glass Bottles at this time cuz
the Soda I buy comes in either Plastic Bottles or Metal Cans.
This Subject reminds me of my buying a 6 pack of Bottle Sodas in
Florida.
I had a slip showing I returned 6 empty Bottles to the store but
on the Receipt it showed that amount was taken off but on another
line it showed a charge for Five or Ten Cents that I had to ask the
Cashier about.
She told me it was a charge for the Paper Carton the bottles were in.
I told the lady that back home they didn't charge a deposit for the
paper carton and I couldn't get that deposit when I got back home.
I was told that the extra charge was to help keep the Beach clean.
I asked if I had the bottles put in a Bag and gave the carton back if
I would get that extra charge back and she told me Yes, so I gave
her the carton.
I thought what I paid him, I would get back at the Store but found
out the one Beer Bottle didn't get the same refund as all of the
Soft Drink Bottles do.
I got One Cent less for that Beer Bottle.
Weird.. The deposit here was 5 cents for a long time, and a couple
years ago, it was raised to 10 cents. It's the same for all bottles,
and there hasn't been a 1-cent difference for any of them.
Back then it was 3 Cents for Soda Bottles and 2 Cents for Beer Bottles.
Iirc Soda Bottle deposit went up to 5 or 10 Cents before the
distributors quit selling Soda in Glass Bottles.
73 de Ed W9ODR dit dit
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