[HotandHumid]

You'd think in this day and age with Governor Scott doing everything in his power to eliminate or cut funding to programs that help the poor and working classes in the name of balancing the budget of the State of Florida, that he would be pushing for a law to require that all beverage containers be required to have a deposit placed on them to facilitate their return to stores so they can be picked up and delivered to job creating recycling companies instead of ending up in costly landfills and littering Florida's highways and water ways when beverage containers are thrown there by careless people. Large amounts of State of Florida funds are spent yearly for clean up crews to pick up after litterers and state funds are also being spent to close down and clean up landfills that are shown to be leaching toxins into underground and nearby fresh water sources.

Governor Scott can continue to deny that Global Warming is happening but he can't deny the fact that the water table in many parts of Florida has been rising due to rising sea levels with salt water moving upwards through the porous soil under Florida. That salt water had been pushing the lighter weighing fresh water upwards and that fresh water will eventually reach the bottom of even more landfills that will contaminate the underground fresh water which many of Florida's cities draw their drinking water from.

Why haven't the citizens of Florida taken it into their own hands by passing an amendment to the state constitution to protect their drinking water and preserve state funds that could be used for better purposes, as other more ecologically progressive states that depend on tourism and ground water for drinking water have done, that requires that beverage containers have a deposit put on them to facilitate their return to stores where those recyclable beverage containers would then be taken from to recycling facilities instead of ending up littering our landscape, thrown in our water ways and helping to fill up landfills and creating the need to create even more toxin leaching landfills?

[BNBR]

Lol....

[FLHfan]

We recycle. The truck comes around once a week.

The roadways around here are some of the cleanest I've ever seen and I think that's because everybody keeps their windows up and the A/C on.

[d4g4m]

We don't need no stinkin bottle/can deposit. Every Tuesday W-M picks up my cans- aluminum/metal, bottles- glass/plastic in the blue bin and cardboard/paper in the red bin.

[OptimusPrime69]

Originally Posted by d4g4m

We don't need no stinkin bottle/can deposit. Every Tuesday W-M picks up my cans- aluminum/metal, bottles- glass/plastic in the blue bin and cardboard/paper in the red bin.

Um why not?
I fail to see how having one would be a bad idea...

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by OptimusPrime69

Um why not?
I fail to see how having one would be a bad idea...

Because even in States where you have one, it just increases the cost and most cans and bottles still get tossed as it is too time consuming to return them for a few cents. Gas costs to go to a recycling center.

[chopchop0]

Originally Posted by OptimusPrime69

Um why not?
I fail to see how having one would be a bad idea...

Should we have a sugar tax to reduce obesity too?

Any other nanny state liberal laws we should have?

[Fredesch]

+1 on the sugar tax

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by HotandHumid

You'd think in this day and age with Governor Scott doing everything in his power to eliminate or cut funding to programs that help the poor and working classes in the name of balancing the budget of the State of Florida, that he would be pushing for a law to require that all beverage containers be required to have a deposit placed on them to facilitate their return to stores so they can be picked up and delivered to job creating recycling companies instead of ending up in costly landfills and littering Florida's highways and water ways when beverage containers are thrown there by careless people. Large amounts of State of Florida funds are spent yearly for clean up crews to pick up after litterers and state funds are also being spent to close down and clean up landfills that are shown to be leaching toxins into underground and nearby fresh water sources.

Governor Scott can continue to deny that Global Warming is happening but he can't deny the fact that the water table in many parts of Florida has been rising due to rising sea levels with salt water moving upwards through the porous soil under Florida. That salt water had been pushing the lighter weighing fresh water upwards and that fresh water will eventually reach the bottom of even more landfills that will contaminate the underground fresh water which many of Florida's cities draw their drinking water from.

Why haven't the citizens of Florida taken it into their own hands by passing an amendment to the state constitution to protect their drinking water and preserve state funds that could be used for better purposes, as other more ecologically progressive states that depend on tourism and ground water for drinking water have done, that requires that beverage containers have a deposit put on them to facilitate their return to stores where those recyclable beverage containers would then be taken from to recycling facilities instead of ending up littering our landscape, thrown in our water ways and helping to fill up landfills and creating the need to create even more toxin leaching landfills?

To put it bluntly, No body cares.

[Elbig]

Just more nanny state stuff we don't need