sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora) (03/08/86)
>/* mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) / 11:10 am Mar 6, 1986 */ I view the deposit as purchase of the privilege to leave the container where someone else will have to dispose of it. This could be the purpose of the law only if it applied merely to those who wish to acquire this privelige, but in reality it applies to all. >The 5 cents is a bond our >state asks as a guarantee that Dave will not add to the expense of keeping our >state clean. It is "asking" only inofar as threatening with a big stick is "asking." >The effectiveness of the bottle law encourages me to recommend a wrapper law >as well. Perhaps we should also have a deposit on all food as well, just in case the eater drinks too much alchohol after eating, and makes a mess on the sidewalk. Also, here in NYC lots of people urinate on the streets. Perhaps we should require a deposit for all drinks. . . . >The slovenly littering habits of Bostonians (and their ilk in >the neighboring communities) could be ameliorated if they had a nickle >deposit on every candy wrapper, cigarrette box, etc. :-) Perhaps these tendencies would diminish if much of the publicly held land were tranferred to private ownership. >Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh Mike Sykora