A Word About Recycling with Ollie Maier

Whenever I see an 80 to 90 percent redemption rate – read recycling/returned rate – it catches my attention. Thus this article in a recent Recycling Today newsletter did just that.

The article started that when all figures are in for 2018, “Oregon expects to achieve between an 80 to 90 percent redemption rate for its bottle bill program, according to reports from the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative.”

This is an increase from a redemption rate of 73 percent in 2017. Although there were several factors involved, probably the biggest one was the deposit to consumers increased from five cents to 10 cents in April 2017. That is probably a pretty good reason.