Beginning the first of this year the California Redemption Value, commonly referred to as CRV, was expanded onto larger fruit and vegetable juices as well as boxed containers for alcoholic beverages. Despite an increase in applicable items, there remains little to no recycling center options for consumers to redeem their bottles and cans, especially here in Lake County.
A California waste company and its operations manager have been ordered to pay $140.5 million in restitution and penalties for fraud involving the state’s rebate program for recycled bottles and cans, according to CalRecycle, the state agency that oversees waste management. The agency said on Feb. 20 that Recycling Services Alliance, Inc. (RSA) must pay […]
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) A California recycling company will pay $34 million for a long-running fraud scheme in which the firm illegally submitted bogus weight tickets and processed out-of-state bottles and cans to get inflated refunds for used beverage containers, authorities said Monday.