How is a good illegal immigrant supposed to make a decent living around here? s/ Heck if California in going to pay exorbitant prices for recyclables I might just take some of my Florida trash out there.
Recycling fraud? Whoever heard of that?
I don’t see the problemo. They purchased the cans and bottles legitimately, then cashed them in to be recycled once again. The tree huggers should be proud!
I guess crossing state lines is a no-no.
Committing the recycling fraud that Americans just won’t do!
How is this any different than currency arbitrage? Why is this illegal? Is there a law against this in California? How do the CA officials know the crushed glass and AL didn’t really originate in California?
The only thing I DON’T have a question about is the $50 million loss. You can be darn sure that if California passes a law, it WILL cause the state to lose money.
my elderly inlaws up until a couple of yrs ago would save every single soda can all year and when they went to Oregon, they'd turn them all in ...if they got $40 they'd be estatic....
lol, how much you want to bet that they actually haven’t broken any laws.
Interstate commerce and all that, you know the stuff in the Constitution?
Free money, whadya espek? If you want it come and get it, but you’d better hurry ‘coz it may not last!
I’ll tell you about recycling fraud, when I was a little kid in California I would collect bottles wherever I could find them, at that time there was a three cent deposit. When I took a bottle in to a liquor store to recycle it I got three cents for every bottle. Skip forward to today, I pay a five cent deposit on cans and bottles but do I get five cents back for each one? Hell no I don’t, I get whatever the current scrap by weight price is, and it never comes anywhere near five cents. So it’s okay for the state to commit fraud but not others.
Doesn’t it seem a little weird, that every single one of them has two last names?
So what did they do wrong?
Well, they do say, “recycling pays”, right? I’m not seeing a problem here.
California, listen: “mess with the market, the market messes with you.”