Alle Einwohner Ontarios zahlen ein Pfand für Alkoholflaschen und -dosen – aber immer mehr Städte haben keinen Ort, an dem sie diese zurückgeben können – thestar.com
https://www.thestar.com/business/all-ontarians-pay-a-return-deposit-on-alcohol-bottles-and-cans-but-more-and-more/article_22b8b54d-b5b0-4203-9658-990d408a1303.html
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My nearest option is now nearly 50km away. Every MPP who voted for this should be required to take empties at their constituency offices.
(Edit: must have had too many of those Doug Ford $1 beers, wrote MP instead of MPP.)
If a store sells alcohol and takes our deposits. It should be capable of accepting our empties and returning our deposits. Easy as that.
It’s not worth holding onto hundreds of gross empty cans and bottles then carting them to the beer store just to get a couple bucks in refunds. Complete waste of my time and storage space. I just drop them off at the dump with the regular recycling.
The latest in the Ontario series „foreseeable problems they did nothing to prevent“. I’ve been hearing about this for years. All the places eager to make money selling the booze don’t want to deal with the expense of handling the waste. Boo-fucking-hoo. Every other jurisdiction in the world deals with this, Ontario isn’t special.
In the suburbs, you put in your empties in the recycling bin. And then the hobos in your neighbourhood take care of it. 🤷
The simplest solution would be to get rid of the deposit altogether and people can just put their empties out with the normal recycling.
Other provinces manage just fine without the Beer Store, Ontario will too.
This was an inevitability when Doug went to war with The Beer Store, who used to take back 90% of what it sold and like 75% of the LCBO output.
For those who don’t know what this means, I’ll lay out two things.
1. You’re about to lose the best recycling program ontario has ever seen (>90% recycle rate of containers)
2. Your booze *will* get more expensive
The Beer companies rely on returns to keep costs down. Every twist top brown bottle you’ve ever drank from in Ontario is designed to go back to the breweries, get cleaned, re-labeled, and re-used by the big brewers. Several times. Sleeman does this with their bottles, too.
If you don’t have places for these bottles to be returned, they will have to pay to make new bottles. They already do, but they’ll have to do it a lot more. They *will* pass this cost onto the customer, and it will *very likely* be more than what the deposit was (10c.) *Anyone telling you that getting rid of the ODR program will make beer 10c cheaper per bottle/can does not understand this part of the economics.*
Cans are slightly less of a problem, TBS has a system that gives the breweries better rates on the recycled aluminum from beer cans. If they have to buy more new or even market used aluminum, you guessed it, prices go up.
I dont think the old setup Ontario had was perfect. Far from it. What Ford has done though is incredibly short sighted, and I won’t be surprised if we see more broken glass and beer bottles lying around parks and beaches now that no one can bother to return their empties. Prices will go up, that’s for sure.