'It may sound great, they recycled 3.3 million containers, until you find out they spent $4 million to do it. They're spending 79 cents to return a nickel to consumers,' points out one consumer advocate.
SF BottleBank has returned $180,000 in CRVs to consumers. But does the cost of the program outweigh the benefit?I met Lawrence Wong at one of the centers last Friday. "I love it," he says. "We used to drop them off at recycle bins and people just steal them from our house, and its great -- just put them in the bag and drop them off when I am here shopping."
"It's a complete bust, I mean, after 15 months we know the numbers," Court says. "So it may sound great, they recycled 3.3 million containers, until you find out they spent $4 million to do it. They're spending 79 cents to return a nickel to consumers. The program doesn't work."
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