Starting in 2024, Californians can redeem empty wine and liquor containers for cash

[IcyPeas]

The state has added wine and liquor to the state's Beverage Container Recycling Program.

Starting January 1, 2024, this includes beverage containers that are boxes, bladders or pouches containing wine, distilled spirits, wine coolers, or distilled spirit coolers. In addition to wine and liquor, large juice containers are also redeemable starting Jan. 1.

How much can you get? Here are the payouts.

5 cents

Containers smaller than 24 ounces. This includes glass, aluminum, plastic or bimetal containers (now including wine and liquor bottles)

10 cents

Containers that are 24 ounces or larger. This also includes glass, aluminum, plastic or bimetal containers (now including wine and liquor bottles)

25 cents

Enjoy boxed wine? Those bag-in-box containers count! You'll also get 25 cents for plastic or multi-layer pouches, but for alcoholic beverages only. Paperback cartons (for alcoholic beverages) and plastic pouches are also eligible.

https://abc7.com/california-beverage-container-recycling-program-wine-liquor/14229657/?s=09

[bahboo]

1. oh my god...I'll be rich I tell ya....RICH......

bwahaha.....

[3Hotdogs]

2. Glass? And what are they gonna do with it?

Glass has little or no value in the recycling market.

[TeamProg]

3. Our CRV fees are going up though. We'll be paying more in container deposits

at the time of purchase next year.

https://calrecycle.ca.gov/bevcontainer/basics/

Wine and Liquor Added
Starting January 1, 2024, beverages with alcohol of 7% or greater by volume:
Will be charged California Redemption Value (CRV) and
Can be redeemed for CRV. This includes wine, liquor, and pre-mixed cocktails.
Prior to January 1, 2024, CRV eligible alcoholic drinks included beer and wine coolers with alcohol contents of 7% alcohol by volume (ABV).

[Old Crank]

4. Our cheapest deposit is 8 cent

Here in Germany.
Bier bottles, reusable, 8
Bier bottles with the porcelain tops, 13
Aluminum cans 25
Plastic bottles15 or 25, some are reusable.

[YoshidaYui]

5. High.surf warning

[Chalco]

6. Where do we go?

to turn the stuff in? I live in Santa Clarita.

[IcyPeas]

7. The article has this link:

Go to the bottom of this page ... there's a place you can search with your zip code

https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/BevContainer/RecyclingCenters/

[Chalco]

9. Thanks! nt

[Jacson6]

8. This nothing but a tax for many in rural California

I would need to make an 80 mile round trip to cash in my returnables. We just throw them in the trash. Even the homeless won't take them because there is no local place to get cash for them. Recycling of Aluminon cans makes sense, but plastic wine bags and bottles can not be recycled. The deposits that are collected and not claimed go straight into the State budget.

[hunter]

10. That's their choice.

It's not rocket science to rinse out containers and bag them until you have a truck full.

Or you can give that money to whoever hauls your trash by throwing them in the recycling bin.

I have friends and relatives living in rural California. Some of them keep their drink containers to redeem in the city a few times a year. My parents always did that when they lived in rural California. Or you can simply throw drink containers away and not worry about nickles and dimes.

We live in a densely populated area not far from a parking lot redemption center, the same parking lot where busses pick up and drop off farm laborers. I give our empties to a few local people who appreciate the extra money. One guy is an elderly recent immigrant now living with his grandchildren. He hates being retired and not working so he scours the neighborhood for cans and bottles and cashes them in when he can't carry any more.

But I gotta ask, why is money going into the state budget a bad thing? Maybe this looks like a regressive sin tax to you, which it very well may be. Frankly, the only containers recycled for significant environmental reasons are aluminum cans. It takes much less energy to recycle aluminum than it does to mine and extract it from ore. Even if the rest of the stuff ends up in the dump that's still better than having it end up as litter alongside highways or other public places.