Why Is This Store Charging A Bottle Deposit On Dryer Sheets?
Well, that explanation makes sense. It might be baffling to some people people that someone would contact a TV consumer reporter over ten cents, but it bothered this laundry-doer that the store might be charging bottle deposit, or CRV, on items for which consumers couldn’t get it back.
If your state doesn’t have such a program, it’s simple: to incentivize people to recycle certain kinds of bottles and cans, stores collect a five-cent deposit on each container (ten cents in some states, as viewers of “Seinfeld” know) which the customer gets back by bringing the container to a store or bottle redemption center. This is supposed to be programmed into cash registers or store computers at purchase, and in the case of this store wasn’t.
Call Kurtis Investigates: Why Was I Charged Deposit for Recyclables on Dryer Sheets? [CBS Sacramento]
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