Canadian Springs
The bottled water company, Canadian Springs, will place a $0.25 deposit on their 16-oz. water bottles starting in January 2009. The company hopes to elicit the same positive response they received from the $10 deposit they placed on their 18-liter bottles, for which they now have a return rate of over 99%. Canadian Springs is taking a different step along the line of extended producer responsibility. The company is trying to get the customers it works directly with to give back the bottles instead of directing them to dispose of them through a general recycling program. See the October 15, 2008 FoodBev article for more information.