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Container-deposit legislation (CDL) is any law that requires collection of a monetary deposit on soft-drink, juice, milk, water, alcoholic-beverage, and/or other reusable packaging at the point of sale. When the container is returned to an authorized redemption center, or to the original seller in some jurisdictions, the deposit is partly or fully refunded to the redeemer (presumed to be the original purchaser). It is a deposit-refund system. Governments may pass container deposit legislation for several reasons: * To encourage recycling and complement existing curbside recycling programs, to reduce energy and material usage for containers * To specifically reduce beverage container litter along highways, in lakes and rivers, and on other public or private properties (where beverage container litter occurs, a nominal deposit provides an economic incentive to clean it up; this is in fact a significant source of income to some poor individuals and non-profit civic organizations) * To discourage the purchase of the products by raising their initial price, * To extend the usable lifetime of taxpayer-supported community or regional landfills, and * To protect children and animals by reducing the likelihood of glass lacerations. * To not depend on commercial entities for recycling. The commercial interests can oppose the recycling for various reasons, although they may have an incentive to reduce the packaging cost, and voluntarily, e.g., by competition, introduce a refund for recycled containers. And the refund policy may be less than just, e.g., no refund without new purchase. Deposits that are not redeemed are often used (escheated) by the governmental entity involved to fund environmental programs; sometimes they are used to cover the costs of processing returned containers. ==History== A & R Thwaites & Co in Dublin, Ireland, announced in 1799 the provision of artificial "soda water" and that they paid 2 shillings a dozen for returned bottles. Schweppes that also was in the business of artificially made mineral waters, had a similar recycling policy about 1800, without any legislation.〔http://www.britishsoftdrinks.com/PDF/history.pdf〕 Scottish bottled beverage companies also voluntarily introduced such a scheme to encourage the return of their bottles for reuse.() In Sweden a standard system for deposits on bottles and recycling was established in 1884, eventually by law. The popular demand for a deposit on aluminium cans to reduce littering in the nature led to legislation in 1984. In North America, British Columbia's legislated deposit-return system, enacted in 1970, is the oldest such program in North America.〔(BottleBill.org: Legislation > Canada > British Columbia > History )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Container deposit legislation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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