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Why are there no bottle depot's here?  A rant by: twistedmanitoba I have lived in winnipeg for almost ten years, with the exception of a year i spent in calgary, and i have yet to see an establishment for returning recyclables for cash! (Of course with the exception of a beer vendor) I wonder why the city has instead insisted on spending millions of our hard earned money on a recycling program that hardly half of the residents take advantage of! I don't know how many times i have walked to my front yard only to find that someone has thrown a pop can or juice box in my shrubs! This would be such a cleaner city if only there were such places here. It would probably take care of alot of the panhandling problems we face too, they could pick up the ''litter'' and exchange it in for the money they say they ''need so badly''!! I think it would be a revolutionary thing for this city to expierience. << Back Add a Comment Comments ( Add a Comment ) twistedmanitoba says: 2006-05-02 22:49:01 i have written many letters to city hall but i have a feeling that they are going in the garbage as opposed to in the hands of someone who acually gives a damn scrumtrulescent says: 2006-05-03 00:41:30 I've often wondered why Manitoba doesn't have such a program---refunding returned recyclables would certainly make Winnipeg cleaner than it already is. NM says: 2006-05-03 06:53:51 I agree! If people could return their bottles for cash, they might actually care about recycling, instead of throwing EVERYTHING in the garbage. And it would help with panhandling -- in most cities, those people can make decent cash collecting bottles. I've even seen them digging the bottles out of the garbage, so it really does help to stop filling up the landfills so quickly! BigB says: 2006-05-03 11:21:11 I use my blue box for stowing firewood. I will never take part in any recycling program. Had gaymurray's propositioned garbage tax been implemented i would have burned and chucked my garbage in the back field. 90% of the crap you put in those bins goes to the dump anyways. Just lining another guys pocket and wasting your time when you could be watching more MXC! twistedmanitoba says: 2006-05-07 23:01:24 i see wht you mean but would you not bring recyclables back if you got cash for them??? i know i would! i never throw a beer can out that is 10 cents. just think of all the pop bottles and cans, liqure bottles, juice boxes, milk cartons, ect. that just one person goes through in a year that adds up to alot of scratch that could be put in your pocket as opposed to forking out cash to the city BigB says: 2006-05-08 10:05:55 What would you get from it? $75/year? Dont't forget to subtract $20 from that for the amount of fuel and wear/tear your vehicle has. Then take you time into account. For $55.00 you are gonna rummage through your garbage 5mins everyday? Sounds a lil to transcona to me. I'll keep my time and you can come dig through my garbage cans on garbage day. twistedmanitoba says: 2006-05-08 10:24:48 I get more than $75.00 in just beer cans in three months so your guesstimation is totally off there!! Anonymous says: 2006-05-08 10:29:22 75.00 at 10C a beer is 750 beers. That's an average of like 8 beers aday. You have a problem. BigB says: 2006-05-08 10:45:05 the guy didnt say he drinks alone everyday. Some people have friends. Imagine that eh? Friends... Beer bottles is a different story. They package back in the same box and you are going to that depot to get a fresh case anyway. But filling your trunk w/ leaking containers and milk jugs is hardly the same thing. twistedmanitoba says: 2006-05-09 01:56:22 ok ok just go everyone knows i AM NOT A GUY lol but thanks for sticking up for me there i appreciate it Anonymous says: 2006-05-09 16:17:07 woot if they did bring that in, just think how many homeless peoples carts I can raid!! *CHA CHING!* twistedmanitoba says: 2006-05-27 23:48:46 hahaha ya i would prob raid some bums cart to but that was not the point i was trying to make here i really think that if we all bann together on this it could be a real possibility for this city and or province and not to mention the enviromental plusses NM says: 2006-05-28 00:02:41 You are missing the point though, it's not just about the money that you would get back (or spend on gas or whatever), it's about recycling rather than contributing to landfills. Taking responsibility and looking out for the earth. I recycle three times as much as I throw in the garbage, and I'm proud of that. I think more people would put some effort into recycling if they made money doing it. And if that's what it takes to get people to recycle, then the gov't should do it! twistedmanitoba says: 2006-05-28 01:07:31 i did not miss any of the point i was making i know it will make the earth a better place and to make winnipeg a way cleaner and more up to date city in this wonderful country we live in BigB says: 2006-05-30 13:54:54 WTF is with the landfill bashing? Garbage has given us some great monuments. Garbage hill for example on Empress. You can drive up the freakin hill. Totally cool! Also, Harbour View. It's masterly landscaped into an excellent park full of scenic trails. What we need is more landfills! big0joe says: 2006-05-30 15:32:33 i like your fiew on things BigB. that way we can throw away more stuff for a good cause! Anonymous says: 2006-07-15 10:54:46 fyi: recycling programs here are primarily paid for by the $0.02 levy you pay when you buy a packaged beverage. The recycling masterminds in this province are in transition, however, and we could be heading towards a deposit based system in the next few years. twistedmanitoba says: 2006-07-18 20:00:30 that 0.02 levy you r talking abt is for the provincial recycling programs-you know- the ones that you have to litteraly find and dispose of your recycling-the one the city operates is payed for by taxpayers like me Anonymous says: 2006-07-19 08:04:05 Don't me started on that damn 2 cent levy. One of the main expenditures of that program is telling me how to properly dispose of the product I just bought! Why isn't there a levy on McDonald's bags, or on Tim Horton's cups?? I see a lot more of that trash on a typical street on an average day than pop cans. Pop cans are worth something. If there was a place to take them for me to get my money back I'd sure as heck do that. I remember as a kid in Ontario taking my glass pop bottles back to the store for the deposit. I paid a dime or whatever as deposit when I bought the pop and I got the dime back when I brought the bottle back. Is that so darn hard? Of course the problem with that scenario is the city doesn't get their cut. Of course that's what it's all about. Pop cans are one of the most profitable recycled products, so the more they get back, the more the city makes. They could care less about paper - it's not nearly as cost-effective as tin cans. Don't believe me? When was the last time you saw a sign asking for your paper so a school can buy a wheelchair? It's the aluminum that brings in the $$$. twistedmanitoba says: 2007-05-02 14:23:14 here is something we can all agree would help with the "dirty peg" rant, please we must not forget there are more things than complaining that can be done about the litter problem stuckhere says: 2007-06-26 00:28:02 the winnipeg government hired a american consulting firm, to provide a plan to handle the recycling program. It was decided that american companies should profit on the program and not the winnipeg citizens. IJustWannaSayThis says: 2007-06-27 12:28:28 I could care less whether we hire Winnipeggers, Albertans, Americans or Albanians. Whoever can do the best job for the money. karen says: 2010-01-17 03:26:55 isnt it like stealing if they take a deposit should you not be able to get it back. the winnipeg government is collecting that depsosit or should i say tax and not giving any of it back that is just plain wrong you guys should not just sit by and let this happen there is a lot of your money going down the recycle drain instead of back inot your pocket where it belongs |
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Man has a point. Questions: 1) Why haven't "they" thought of it or tried it? 2) Why are you writing this here instead of in a letter to city hall?