WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2018
DEPOSITS
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mental Quality. An increase
from 5 cent deposits to 10
cents in April 2017 has
helped increase redemption
numbers. Spendelow said
in an email that the redemp-
tion rate as reported by the
ORBC was 59 percent in
January through March of
2017 but was at 82 percent
in April through December.
He said there was “prob-
ably some hoarding of con-
tainers” during the first part
of the year, “But any way
you look at it, there was a big
jump in redemptions result-
ing in an increase of 231
million containers redeemed
between 2016 and 2017.”
The 1.3 billion contain-
ers redeemed in 2017 equals
about 314 cans and bottles
returned for each of Ore-
gon’s 4.14 million residents.
The OBRC estimated Ore-
gonians left $25 million on
the table in deposits on unre-
turned cans and bottles that
year.
Cherilyn Bertges, the
BottleDrop Give program
manager, confirmed that
redemption numbers had
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jumped since the deposit
increase, and also pointed
out that in January the sys-
tem also expanded to include
almost all types of beverage
containers, including sports
drinks, fruit juice and tea.
“Between those two fac-
tors, we’re up 50 to 60 per-
cent,” Bertges said of the
cooperative’s
recycling
volume.
She said partnering on
fundraisers like the one for
Agape House is a “great way
to capture those containers
out there” because it gives
people an extra incentive.
When a BottleDrop cen-
ter opens in an area, she
said, return rates tend to
increase roughly 20 percent.
The centers offer a one-stop
shop of machines, with staff
on hand and a system that
allows people to add depos-
its to an account instead of
collecting change. As part of
BottleDrop Give, custom-
ers can pick up bags labeled
with their favorite nonprofit
and drop those off as dona-
tions as well.
On Wednesday morning
Izabella Garcia, 18, was one
of the people standing in line
with a cart holding a few
bags of cans and bottles. She
said she and her 13-year-
old brother have a Bottle-
Drop account and use it fre-
quently to build up pocket
money with containers they
bring from home or that her
brother picked up while he
was walking around town.
She said the BottleDrop cen-
ter was much preferable to
the old days of taking them
to a local grocery store.
“I think it’s a lot eas-
ier,” she said. “You can put
money on an account.”
Tena Tickal, who was
feeding cans through a
machine, said she brings in
her containers once every
few months and uses the
money to buy a new toy for
her daughter.
“I like this (the cen-
ter) a lot better,” she said.
“The other machines would
always break down and you
would have to wait and wait
and wait.”
She said that if Oregon
didn’t have a deposit sys-
tem it would be too easy to
throw cans and bottles away
instead of making the effort
to recycle them.
“They would probably
end up in the dang landfill,”
she said.
How the system works
Enforcement of Oregon’s
Bottle Bill is overseen by
the Oregon Liquor Control
Commission, but the system
is mostly privately run by
beverage distributors. When
a store gets a shipment of
beverages, the store pays the
deposit on the containers to
the distributor. Then the cus-
tomer who buys those bev-
erages pays a deposit to the
store. If the customer returns
those containers to the store,
the store pays the customer
the deposit amount. The
store then returns those
empty containers to the bev-
erage distributor, which
reimburses the store for the
deposits on those bottles.
BottleDrop centers run by
the Oregon Beverage Recy-
cling Cooperative cut out
the last two steps in the pro-
cess by having customers
return containers directly to
the distributors and get reim-
bursed directly.
If a customer pays a
deposit on containers that
are then thrown away
instead of returned, the bev-
erage distributors get to keep
the deposit. That has been a
sticking point for critics of
the five cent increase, who
argued that the move —
triggered automatically after
two years in a row of return
rates below 80 percent —
would serve to line the pock-
ets of the beverage industry.
The OBRC argued that the
“profits” actually help pay
for the cost of picking up
containers and sending them
to be recycled.
The Bottle Bill only
applies to cans and bottles
purchased in Oregon. Bert-
ges said that many bev-
erage containers have a
UPC code that will tell the
reverse vending machines
whether the container was
purchased in Oregon, but
some don’t. In those cases,
staff do their best to keep
out Washington contain-
ers. They don’t take Kirk-
land bottles at the Herm-
iston center, for example,
because that’s Costco’s
brand and the only nearby
Costco is in Washington.
According to the OLCC’s
website, it is legal for the
BottleDrop to turn peo-
ple away if they don’t have
receipts.
“There is no requirement
that a person has to be an
Oregon resident to redeem
containers, but a retailer
or redemption center may
refuse to accept any con-
tainer if staff have reason-
able grounds to believe the
beverage was not purchased
in Oregon,” the website
states. “For some locations
along the border with other
states, staff may request
receipts as proof that the
beverages were purchased
in Oregon.”
People may still leave
those cans and bottles to be
recycled but they will not be
paid a deposit for them.
Bertges said contain-
ers returned for a deposit
in Oregon are turned into
a “really clean recycling
product” in the United
States, she said, despite
restrictions from China that
have slowed down other
types of plastic recycling on
the West Coast.
Spendelow
confirmed
the restrictions haven’t
slowed down beverage con-
tainer recycling in the state,
because the bottles are clean
and well-sorted compared
to the type of plastics pulled
out of curbside recycling.
“The stream of plastic
bottles coming back under
the bottle bill is a very clean,
valuable stream, and so a
consortium was formed to
build a plant, called ORPET,
in St. Helens, Oregon, to
recycle those bottles, includ-
ing the bottle caps,” he
wrote.
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