European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Awards for cycling in a throwaway society a Cash Lor cans machine gives a 5 Canto refund for amply soft drink cans. The machine which can Holdup to 1.800 cans crushes the cans Tor storage. By Robert Reinhold new York times he first truce in the two decade War Between environmentalists and the beverage Industry has begun in California and Many people on Bolh sides say in May Point the Way nationally to a solution to the Iii Lor problem specially licensed redemption centers Are going up in the parking lots of supermarkets All Over the stale giving Consumers 3 Penny or every Beer or soda Container they bring Back the centers Are the most obvious result of elaborate Compromise legislation thai is radically Rifle real from new York and the eight other states with bottle Deposit Laws unlike the bottle Laws in other states which require a Iivo cell Deposit on every Container the California Law imposes no Deposit Al Iho checkout counter but establishes a minimum redemption value Lor each can and Billle. Paid Lor by a stale Lund into which bottlers must contribute ii also sets up a stale sponsored mechanism to Recycle Ifie 12 billion beverage bottles cans and plastic containers discarded yearly in California it begins to attack the problem of convenience packaging and the nature of Gui Cononi said Rod Miller legislative coordinator of California. Against waste a 40 000 member organisation that lowered its guns and sat Don with the Beu Erato Industry to Hammer Cut the la.-. It rewards recyclable containers a a raises Lician value " his organization dropped 1s Long Campaign or a traditional Billle Bill in nevertheless sceptics argue that the Law lacks Leech and is too Complex the California beverage Container recycling and Liller reduction act. Asil is called a Cal into elect Del 1 and covers cans bodies and plastic containers for Beer and carbonated soil drinks Esli maled to account Tor 25 to 30 percent of the Liller the Bill was made politically attractive by relieving grocers o the responsibility o redeeming restoring and returning used containers. Instead All supermarkets doing $2 million or More in business annually Are required to con race for a certified collection censer within a half mile. The stale department of business conservation which administers the program has designated 2,741 such convenience zones also California s powerful wine Industry obtained an exemption for the fastest glowing new source of Roadside Irish wine cooler bottles Aboul 200 million of which Aie sold annually in the slain wino and liquor bottles Are also exempt the California Public inlets research group a consumer and environmental lobby roused to join other environmental groups m supporting the Bill Deborah Bruns Sis associate director called Iho la doomed to Lailure " she i j thai the one cent redemption fee was Loo lib. And thai co soc Ian Center , soc Ted m Vas Good polit.c1, not Good poc Shost d i to me i j n far j i a Cunt Boi in b u i tre in to Lect in new a k cc-r.t-. Cut. Of j Del a. Are Volfi on lev a ind Oregon or in .11 p in i for each site Blue Tor aluminium White for Clear Glass Green Tor coloured Glass red Lor ptas Lic. Gray Tor newspaper. The Law has also widened the Market for reverse vending machines Ihal give Consumers Money Lor bottles and cans this is How it works beverage Dison Bubois pay a one cent recycling fee to Tho state Lund for every Container sold in California the Loo May or a not to passed on to the consumer Tach Container 15 marked Ca redemption value " the containers May be redeemed Al Iho designated Center which Rmi-,1 All be in place by Jan 1. Or local t"1 Feutl $100 .1 Day the consumer gels Cue cent Lof each contain or plus in additional Scap a Juliio re pending on Markul prices should scrap Price a l. The recycler Are gunman Ted at feat Ono rom the state fund the Lii Iid ill by Niue to pay Tor Tho Idem Lions. As Ai for Bonu is. Hamm amt litter Aba Lemeril Page 14 the stars and stripes saturday of
