Institute a cash refund for aluminum, plastic and glass beverage containers across the state of Colorado. Container-deposit legislation provides an economic incentive for individuals and businesses to recycle, reducing the amount of volume to local landfills, reducing litter, and reducing the environmental impacts of processes used to produce new beverage containers.
Why is this important?
There is currently a lack of economic incentive for individuals and small business owners to recycle in Colorado. As a result, many recyclables get sent to local landfills, our landfills fill up faster, and we take up more land--a limited resource--to deposit our waste. Also, the process of creating new containers requires more raw resources and energy than recycling old ones. Many states have successfully and effectively implemented container-deposit legislation and it is time that Colorado follows this precedent.
