making the argument for a national bottle bill.

Its intention was to reduce highway litter and promote recycling of material used to construct the beverage container.

In states that have a redemption policy recycling increases by 40% (1)

Litter on highways decrease by 70% (2) . The intention of the bill in states that have adopted redemption policies have been a huge success.

Their are many hidden benefits to having a redeemable worth  on beverage containers. 

Beverage redemption allows 9 new self funded full time jobs provided by the consumption of beverages within a 10,000 population area. by allowing redemption these low stress jobs can be provided to people with disabilities including veterans. These jobs are absolved by a 5 cent per container at retail. those who choose to put their containers into "trash"  reception allows transfer stations to provide off setting costs to material going to land fills.

a 3-4 cent handling fee is given to redemption facilities to deal with the material, Coca cola picks up soda cans plastics these are remade into new containers. National bottling takes most glass containers, and aluminium containers to recycle to clear green and brown glass beverage containers as well as new aluminium cans for beer bottling industry. off brands such as nestle waters, polar Niagara and other bottling industries using plastic containers is transferred by Tomarah, a Norwegian firm. this is used for primary energy burning boiler capacity given a 450 per ton value based within BTU output and current oil prices. 

This reuse of current production material reduces landfill waste. Tomrah corporation has developed machines. These machines scan UPC codes recognize the manufacture to charge companies selling in redemption states the nickel to 10 cent value plus a 3. -4 cent value for the independent redemption center receives to handle the material. trucks that bring beverages to stores pick up the material and bring them back to the bottling plants.

Tomrah utilizes independent trucking firms such as recyclable resources based in Machias Maine to gather the material for trailers owed by Tomrah and drivers move this material to plant headquarters in various states to be burned in precept regulated boilers for energy. Tomrah advertises for independent drivers owners through its website.

There are public safety benefits as well ,as litter as a whole is reduced alcohol containers are concentrated,

 In a minimum security work projects through state correction systems,  gloves are worn, sanitary conditions.

 1 gives low stress jobs to disabled citizens.

 2 reduces litter on highways.

 3 gives law enforcement valuable data on drunk driving and drug use in a specific area.

 4 helps charitable organizations such as boy and girl scouts, booster athletic programs, project graduation and other charitable non profits resources to fund activities,

5 saves our planet from pollution derived from plastic glass and metal on our beaches, roadways and soil.

its is the right thing to do to take responsibility as an individual to sustain conservation to Keep America beautiful.

I live in an affluent area. We have no litter. Zero. Nada. None.

I work in poor neighborhoods, and the littering that I witness on a daily basis is shocking. 

People drive down the street, and as soon as they finish their Big Mac and fries, they throw the entire bag of garbage out the window of their moving car. 

Someone eating something on the sidewalk, garbage can 4 feet away, they drop the wrapper of their food on the sidewalk.

These are not isolated cases, they are the norm.

I don't get it 

some places in Maine are truly picturesque . feel been awhile since someone been here before. look down at beer can, or plastic bottle just think y? come all the way out here just to trash the place?

thought about this this morning. It is disinfranchisement, affluent areas have ownership a sense of this our street our neiborhood our city, In poor areas of renters it is their neiborhood their city their government. Rural developement and Housing urban devolopement wasx ment to bring the "poor" into ownership. the points that stuck was that a neiborhood of morgage holders would be far different from a neibor hood owned by land management groups and rented to populations. this was underminded by the land ownership groups not a good buisiness plan to large rental property management systems. With always a cloud of eveiction processes in the back ground . littering becomes a form of protest even it be only subliminally fu to the man so to speak. laws get tougher but no reduction imposed by fines will gain control of litter, only thing is the hope for our future generations. take the gulf bp destroyed the ecosystem guy walks down 8th parish and drops the wrappers to his pack of cigerettes. 

these things are3 related as all things are but to take the time to describe chaos theory in detail on my lunch break is not realistic.

People who drive Luxory Cars tend to keep them cleaner than people who drive beaters. The more something has actual value, the more people tend to value it. It's not that people in affluent areas are naturally cleaner.

I agree.

In the neighborhoods that I work you occasionally see some supervised younger people in jumpsuits picking up trash. I believe these are just kids with very minor offenses who are performing community service as part of their AR. 

Personally, I believe that every inmate (non violent offender) should be made to work. 

If the cost of incarcerating someone is $147 per day (random amount) than that inmate should produce $147 a day for the state in which he is imprisoned. 

Cleaning up litter, farming, dredging sewage ... whatever needs to be done.  

this type of program can actual rehabiltate inmates to understand work = money = commodities they wish to have. even if it is in states that scraps the aluminum to the 15 cents a pound junk yards pay.

offsetting any notion or equating this to prison labor in North Korea.

thought of dissenting arguments , instead of chain gangs, or very expensive ankle bracelets. a device made of Kevlar with an embedded geo tracking chip imbedded into the bracelet could be attached as a single cuff with key could reduce costs, geo tracking devices are used for a reality type game called geo tracker. the device is small and sends a signal to gps grid allowing for trail marking and other things by far less expensive for the inevitable runner escape mentality some prisoners have.