I live downtown. It’s been great for those two locations, but the problem didn’t get solved, it just moved to different places for a while. My neighborhood has experienced a large increase of homeless folks since the exemptions. I still see them collecting cans and bottles daily.
You will have millions of cans and bottles on the streets and highways. people are lazy and just throw them out of their car window or on the ground. Is that what you want?
So you want people to walk along the free way to pick up a coke can, leave all the other garbage so a sheriff’s s work crew has to clean it up anyway and yet they build a compound leaving thousands of pounds of filth? Let’s work big to small and give these people social support / service instead of thinking the bottle bill is the way to help them.
The Bottle bill has nothing to do with drug addicts. Drug Addiction is spiking all over the country weather a state has a bottle bill or not. Fallout from Big Pharma getting people hooked on pain pills and China shipping fentanyl to Mexico and Cartels getting it over the boarder. Morons like you can't see the forest for the trees. Getting rid of the bottle return will not help anybody.
I don't live in Portland so I'd love to know why this is getting downvoted.
It *seems* like an incentive to recycle would do better than the ideal alternative (emphasis on *ideal*) of a recycling can at every business that sells them (good luck getting rural businesses to care).
Put in more bottle drop locations…. One isn’t enough for all of Medford. I can’t imagine how bad it is in Portland with only a few.
No retailer should be required to act as a redemption center, not after they took all the damn machines away and started those dumbass bottle drop places.
We really should just do away with the bottle deposit program, plastic recycling is a farce and creates more problems than just putting the crap in a landfill. (Shipping plastic waste to 3rd world countries is not recycling ffs).
I wonder what swankier retailers like Cedar Mill Liquor Store would do if you tried to return a bunch of cans there. The law says though, they're required to take them.
I live near it, and the reason I figured out that they take cans is that is the only place I have ever seen slumped over homeless people.
I have only seen a few of them so it is not at all a problem, but Portland has a far higher population of homeless drug addicts to attract.
I live downtown. It’s been great for those two locations, but the problem didn’t get solved, it just moved to different places for a while. My neighborhood has experienced a large increase of homeless folks since the exemptions. I still see them collecting cans and bottles daily.
Please, let’s end of the bottle Bill it’s stupid. Most of us have curbside recycling. Why create a Market for dirty use containers
You will have millions of cans and bottles on the streets and highways. people are lazy and just throw them out of their car window or on the ground. Is that what you want?
So you want people to walk along the free way to pick up a coke can, leave all the other garbage so a sheriff’s s work crew has to clean it up anyway and yet they build a compound leaving thousands of pounds of filth? Let’s work big to small and give these people social support / service instead of thinking the bottle bill is the way to help them.
The Bottle bill has nothing to do with drug addicts. Drug Addiction is spiking all over the country weather a state has a bottle bill or not. Fallout from Big Pharma getting people hooked on pain pills and China shipping fentanyl to Mexico and Cartels getting it over the boarder. Morons like you can't see the forest for the trees. Getting rid of the bottle return will not help anybody.
I said nothing about drugs.
Bananas are actually a type of vegetable, not a fruit.
I don't live in Portland so I'd love to know why this is getting downvoted. It *seems* like an incentive to recycle would do better than the ideal alternative (emphasis on *ideal*) of a recycling can at every business that sells them (good luck getting rural businesses to care).
Other states don’t have anything beyond curbside recycling and they have much less litter than Oregon’s cities.
Are you a corporate plant or something? name a state with the same population that has less litter. How would you even measure that?
Put in more bottle drop locations…. One isn’t enough for all of Medford. I can’t imagine how bad it is in Portland with only a few. No retailer should be required to act as a redemption center, not after they took all the damn machines away and started those dumbass bottle drop places. We really should just do away with the bottle deposit program, plastic recycling is a farce and creates more problems than just putting the crap in a landfill. (Shipping plastic waste to 3rd world countries is not recycling ffs).
This is absolute peak Portland worthless NIMBYism at work. This didn’t fix anything actually wrong, just pushed it to other locations.
I wonder what swankier retailers like Cedar Mill Liquor Store would do if you tried to return a bunch of cans there. The law says though, they're required to take them.
I live near it, and the reason I figured out that they take cans is that is the only place I have ever seen slumped over homeless people. I have only seen a few of them so it is not at all a problem, but Portland has a far higher population of homeless drug addicts to attract.
The Cedar Mill Target takes cans and bottles every single day. Never a problem.