Very informative video of that single-stream recycle center, Penn Waste in York, Pennsylvania, a town of 40,000 in south east Pennsylvania, close to Maryland. Terrific informative post, VB!
Pennsylvania does not have a 5-cent bottle bill as far as I know, and at $1040./ton those bails of crushed aluminum cans are probably the big money-maker that really makes that expensive looking recycle-truck-diesel-labor facility viable.
Hey, check out the
www.laconiadailysun.com: December 18, page 5, editorial style 1/4 page informational ad from the Gilmanton Transfer Station detailing the prices received for different materials.
So, if NH passes HB675-FN, a 5-cent bottle & can deposit law, which should double the number of recycled cans verses single stream recycling, the effects of that would probably impact the money dynamics for recycling and local transfer stations.
Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York all have 5-cent bottle & can deposit laws.......so why not New Hampshire?
HB675 would double the number of recycle bottles and cans going back through the Wal-Mart's, Hannaford's, Shaw's, Market Basket's, etc. that sold them to the consumer. With a reverse-vending machine located in the entry area, people insert their empties into the reverse-vending machine and get a paper scrip receipt, good for 5 cents/can at the store's check-out cash register.
HB675 keeps bottle and can litter off the roads, parks, lakes, and woods, and out of the local transfer stations plus it doubles the number of returns verses single-stream recycling.
Bottle bills have been in use in nearby states for 25-years and more and they work very well!