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From: hom@houxm.UUCP (H.MORRIS)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle,net.auto
Subject: Re: Broken Glass on Roads
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Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 11:15:41 EDT
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The best idea, I think, is the most obvious one, namely laws requiring
deposits on bottles.  Some people will still toss bottles out
their windows (unless the deposit is really high), but then young kids,
instead of smashing them for amusement, are likely to take them to
stores to cash in.  The beverage bottlers/distributers, who don't want
to retool their industry, claim a number of things including that it
will make beverages more expensive.  I doubt it, at least in the long
run.  In New Jersey I managed with difficulty to find a place that sells
beer by the case in returnables, and that also happens to be the best
buy.
	A controversial plus to the idea is that it makes the industry
more labor-intensive and less natural resources intensive in a time
when labor is getting more plentiful and natural resources scarcer.
But the manufacturers won't like that since natural resources behave
themselves better than labor.
	I have seen a couple of bottle bills defeated by well-organized lobbying
campaigns; posters put in every grocery store showing glum people standing
in line with arm-fulls of bottles, or scare campaigns about invasions
of cockroaches.  A good countering technique might be a coordinated
campaign of people going out and gathering bottles for 10 minutes in
the vicinity of their homes, and UPSing a box of bottles to their
anti-bottle bill congressman.


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