BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following is in response to 'LETTER: Why has Ontario's premier canned deposit returns?' and 'LETTER: Why blame Ford? It's up to individuals to recycle,'.
I agree that non-alcoholic beverage containers made of plastic and aluminum should all be returnable for a refund.
The beverage companies should be responsible for the recycling process via the grocery stores. By putting a dollar value on these recyclables, people will return them to the grocery stores for a refund.
I, like many others, will return a pack of 24 beer bottles to get a refund of $2.40. It only makes sense. When I was eight years old (I am 67 now), my friends and I would collect the non-alcoholic containers from our neighbours to return to the store for a refund. We would then go buy treats for ourselves.
By introducing a dollar value on these returnables, our streets, country roadsides and parks would have a lot less litter.
Fil Cordeiro
Cambridge
