Now I've heard everything: Empty Wine Bottle Retrieval

Hey, Purdy! sounds like some sort of a ruse to me. During jobs past, I'd worked for owners who made barmen break empty liquor bottles: crafty bartenders could refill name brands w/ rotgut, sneak them into the inventory, charge customers for top shelf, not ring in the sale & then pocket the loot w/o shorting the inventory. The ostensiblereason was that "the ABC required it to prevent watering down drinks." No one in the biz that I've ever met, barkeep nor owner, nor inspector, has mentioned anything like your circumstance. Wedding mills & off-premise caterers had always been great resources fro bottle mining. I'd be interested to learn what the ACB has to say... regards, bobdrob

Actually I have heard that next door to you in PA; I was told they were required to break liquor bottles each night before disposal. Joe

In New Mexico if you have the empty wine or beer bottle where you can reach it, they can get you for open container.

BTW: recycling paper, plastics, and glass takes more energy and causes more pollution than just throwing it away. Many cities have feel good programs, but it all ends up with the other trash.

I don't know where you heard that but it's utter hogwash. We've been recycling here where I live for decades, and believe me we wouldn't if it were truly more cost effective to dump it into a landfill. In fact, there are certain types of plastic that are in high demand for recycling because they make synthetic wallboard from it. Also, landfill space is a shrinking commodity - especially near large urban centers.

Tom S

Wow, I think Bloomberg had you brainwashed! *grin*

Tossing it into a can may cost just about nothing and the energy to re-manufacture from these materials costs money, but you must NEVER believe that the cost of a remanufactured package from recycled material is more than from virgin itself.

If you're talking about recycling programs that are established and not followed, that's an entirely different story. Yeah, if people go through the motions and the material ends up in a landfill, that's wasted time, effort and money. If this is the case, the government's refuse program has to get on many people's a$$es to make sure the program is followed - that is not a deficiency of the concept of recycling but rather the practice.

Hmmmm, now back onto wine and recycling. Where's an answer to that vinegar thread? *grin*

Patrick