It seems that CA is always finding creative ways to lose money. On November 6, 2014 ABC News 7 in the Bay Area reported “So many people are recycling today that the nickel-per-container redemption fund is losing $100 million a year. Consumers are recycling 85 percent of their containers, while the fund is set up to break even at 75 percent. The state auditor is recommending the legislature find a way to generate more revenue.” $100 million is a lot of money to allocate to scrap and recycling. The full story is available here: http://abc7news.com/news/states-bottle-redemption-fund-tapping-out/384470/ On November 8, 2014 KUSI News San Diego posted a story entitled ‘California’s recycling problem’ which was originally designed with good intentions, but recently has become an expensive problem to deal with. Highlights of this story are as follows: “California recycling program is leaking money, hundreds of millions of dollars. The program pays Californians to turn in their used bottles & cans. The state does not want cans & bottles to end up in a landfill, so it will pay 5-cents to sell it to a recycling center. Multiply that by hundreds of millions of cans and bottles from outside the state, and you begin to understand why lawmakers are saying California needs to recycle its recycling program. The 1986 ballot initiative that created big incentives for California consumers to recycle those plastic bottles & aluminum cans now has a problem. Five cents for every small container and 10 cents for every large one; no one foresaw that those big incentives would end up creating opportunities to steal hundreds of millions from the state. Poachers from Nevada, Arizona and other neighbor states are hauling truck & trailer loads into CA and selling them to recycling facilities. And in-state, too many recycling centers are charging the state multiple times for the same empty containers–emptying California’s $1.1 trillion recycling fund. The state auditor’s report recommends three fixes: Don’t pay me a nickel for a can. Improve fraud prevention and let the department of equalization, the office that collects taxes and child support, collect money for cans.”
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