Letter: No recycling centers–but California still collects CRV fees

Without RePlanet and any other recycling center, 'you sold it, you take it back' approach to recycling is needed.

Manufacturers should take
back recycled products

Re: “California’s largest recycling center closes, shuttering 300 redemption sites” (Mercurynews.com, Aug. 5)

More than 300 CRV bottles ended up in the trash today.

I’m upset that all the effort that went into washing the bottles, storing them, preparing them for transport to the recycle center was all for not.

It’s not just the $15.90 I paid in CRV fees (what for?) and the gas to drive around for an hour looking for a recycle center and loading and unloading the bottles once again, I am doubly distraught at the California authorities that take our money and these bottles still up in the landfill.

On the heels of the closure of RePlanet, I advocate for enforcement of the “you sold it, you take them back” approach to recycling. I hope others support this approach to recycling bottles and plastic as well.

Leslie Gutt
Cupertino

 

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