did you know that a 16.9 oz empty water bottle weighs 12.7 grams
We pay 5 cents for every water bottle for recycling

take this into consideration. The government thinks we are all too stupid

1 lb of plastic right now fetches $1 at a recycling center.
There are 128 grams in an ounce, and 16 ounces to a pound
that means there are 2048 grams in a pound, so around 157 bottles in a pound

what is 157 x .05? $7.85
For every $7.85 cents we spend for a recylcing program, we get 1 dollar back, or roughly 12.5% of what we paid into it
That’s millions of dollars, shoot maybe hundreds of millions of dollars the Govt takes in that is unaccounted for

Conversions were always one of those things that drive me nuts. Especially when it comes to distances, I’m a real bonehead; and it shows if I’m in a foreign country. Still can’t think off-hand what a kilometer or knot to a mile is. How many litres make a gallon? Hell, I don’t know–why can’t the rest of the world just simply be like us and not complicate things?

I stand corrected, Thanks AD
28.35 x 16 = 453. 6 grams
roughly 36 bottles per pound.
So for every dlolar we get back, the government pockets 80 cents
That still adds up to a lot of money that is unaccounted for. Granted, it’s not the hundreds of miilions I spoke of first, but any little bit helps when we are buried with hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars of debt, that our state govt basically ignores.

Opportunity for a double benefit here, Mike. Go out on a Saturday once or twice a month and pick up those bottles and cans that others choose not recycle, sell them and pocket the money. At the same time you can make a park or a roadside look a little better. Win win.

True. I’ve seen employees at the landfill scouring the daily deposits for recyclables.

Seeing that its a redemption, not a tax most of it goes to overhead. Its not the golden egg you might believe it to be mike. However, everybody DOES pay it and very few people cash in on the redemption (which I think is CRAZY-you paid for it-you might as well get it back) which makes you wonder where the rest of it is going. Interesting point, mike. What happens to all the unredeemed funds?

If you are concerned that you are not receiving your full crv amount then you have options. The easiest is to go to a Re-Planet and feed your crv plastics into their machine. The machine credits your crv amount based on the upc. http://replanetusa.com/

California law requires that for 50 or fewer containers you have the right to be reimbursed your crv by having the recycling attendant count your containers. http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/bevcontainer/

quote from the website “Did you know there’s a way to get your beverage container recycling refunds on a per-container basis instead of by weight? That’s right, California law allows you the option of being paid based on count instead of weight for up to 50 empty beverage containers of each material type.”

“The government thinks we are all too stupid” I disagree the government expects you to educate yourself on the way the program works. They have made all of the information you need available on an easily accessible website.