Palmer wrote:
In this wonderful time that we live. People really don;t give a damn about nothing but themselves. but when the st croix river becomes full of shit and garbage they will be the first ones to cry foul.
would a 0.25 deposit on all things disposable AND recylable be a an incentive to prevent these idiots from doing this, oor at least slow it down ? prolly not and some may even say its another tax.
JP, not sure that the deposit will solve the problem, though it will help. Here in Michigan we have a $0.10 depost on soft drink and beer cans. It helped alot in keeping the roads clean. But we now have a problem with the water and non-carbonated beverage bottles. There is currently attempts to pass that too. The beverage industry is lobbying heavily against it.
But I can tell you that alot of beer cans end up in our rivers. Most are probably the result of inexperienced paddlers upsetting, and not having either the skill nor the desire to go get the loose cans. We pick up a fair number... both looking for "live" ones and to keep the river clean. We remove all the waste... bottles, cans, flip flops (think how logical those are as canoe footwear!!!!), t-shirts, cups, and everything else. We come off with a bag of returnables which we recycle... but the bag of non-recycleable stuff is much bigger. So maybe it helps a little.
PK