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Originally Posted by Ustwo
So while I applaud the motivation, I have to wonder how much of this is about saving the environment and how much is about profit.
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Very little of it is about profit. It depends on the material and what the market requires but there have been many years where the BlueBox system has lost money.
Business subsidizes it here. The bottlers do not have to run a deposit bottle system. In return they help finance the BlueBox.
Additionally, if we left it up to everyone to take their recycleables to the depot to get paid, very few would. Would you?