First container deposit centre opens
The first of what’s meant to be 200 container redeeming centres has opened in Montreal after a fair bit of fuss.
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steph 21:42 on 2024-04-21 Permalink
quick question: Does Dollarama provide refunds on the deposits? I’ve never seen anyone returning cans there for a refund. They do charge a deposits
thomas 09:29 on 2024-04-22 Permalink
The lsites that provide refunds on deposits can be found here https://consignaction.ca/carte-des-lieux-de-retour/
Dollarama is included.
Bert 13:01 on 2024-04-22 Permalink
I was in a SAQ when this scheme was coming in. The customer in front of me was told ” go to that supermarket over there to get your refunds.” Must be nice for supermarket owners to loose money. That same supermarket owner told me a story that happened to him during the Marco spruce beer shutdown. Unaware of the upcoming bankruptcy / closure they were flooded by returns for the snap-top bottles. Typically 1$ each. These returns were coming in from dépaneurs and the like, who knew they were never going to get their money from Marco.
IMO, with basically everyone having access to recycling, the whole deposit thing should just be scrapped.
carswell 13:17 on 2024-04-22 Permalink
IMO, with basically everyone having access to recycling, the whole deposit thing should just be scrapped.
One of the main reasons the province is pushing people toward this “solution” and the SAQ stopped advocating for a curbside recycling-only approach is that selective collection wasn’t/isn’t an optimal or even viable solution for every material that ends up in green bins, especially glass, which needs to be sorted by colour if it is to have much if any resale value, if it’s not going to end up in landfill. That proved impossible with curbside recycling.
Ian 08:14 on 2024-04-23 Permalink
According to this article from a year ago most of it ends up in landfill anyway.
“Three years after the inauguration of the Lachine sorting center in the west of Montreal, the machinery to improve glass recycling no longer works, leading to thousands of tons of glass ending up in landfills every year. “