More cash for recycled beverage containers

SACRAMENTO – The New Year brings a greater cash incentive for Californians to recommit to recycling and preserving the environment. January 1, 2007, marked the first day of an increase in the cash refund consumers receive when they take their empty California Refund Value bottles and cans to recycling centers.

Legislation signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger raised the refund consumers receive from California recycling centers to a nickel for containers less than 24 ounces and a dime for containers 24 ounces and larger. For the next six months, the amount of CRV consumers pay at t...