At 04:16 PM 12/1/2001 -0800, you wrote:
The law has
*never* required grocery stores to redeem bottles and cans. All the
store has to do is identify a redemption center where consumers can
return their bottles and cans.
I've read from several sources that grocery stores are not required to
redeem bottles and cans. What is the source of this information? I
checked the Iowa Code at:
http://web.legis.state.ia.us/IACODE/1999SUPPLEMENT/455C/index.html
CHAPTER 455C BEVERAGE CONTAINERS CONTROL
455C.3 Payment of refund value.
Except as provided in section 455C.4:
1. A dealer shall not refuse to accept from a consumer any empty beverage
container of the kind, size and brand sold by the dealer, or refuse to
pay to the consumer the refund value of a beverage container as provided
under section 455C.2.
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This seems to indicate that grocery stores must accept what they sell. It
does not say anything about designating a redemption center. Was that
written as an administrative rule? Just want to get my facts straight
before contacting Fareway.
Eric G. Hurley