Recycling The Same Tired Ideas

Two things. One, don’t believe their lies:

A group lobbying against an expansion of the state’s bottle bill is going on the air with the ad below.

The group of bottlers — called New Yorkers for Real Recycling Reform — said in a press release that the ad will air in the Capital Region and around the state starting this week. The message is that an expansion of the bottle bill to include water and juice in addition to beer and soda would make those drinks more costly for consumers.

Jon Pierce, a spokesman for the group, said they will spend in the “mid-six figures” to put the air on cable and broadcast T.V. in Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany and maybe New York City.

Bottlers don’t want this because the unclaimed deposit money will go to the state instead of staying in their grubby mitts — the governor knows, just as the bottlers already know*, that all those cans you just throw into the recycling are a nice source of income.

But two, there is no need for a bottle deposit when the City forces you to recycle in the first place, and puts pressure on you via stiff fines handed out by sometimes rather overzealous garbage cops. So clearly the point of bottle deposits is to raise money, first by the bottling industry (huge scam) and now by the state (huger scam). Screw both of them.

*Dude, if Catsimatidis ran for mayor I would support him on this issue alone — and the mayor has nothing to do with recycling deposits!