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Where Have All the CRVs Gone? <br /> <br /> <br />2021-2022 Orange County Grand Jury Page 9 <br /> <br /> <br />California retailers are the failsafe for the program in locations lacking redemption centers. <br />California has an average of one center for every 26,000 consumers,17 leading to CRV non- <br />redemption. <br />Waste Haulers <br />Municipal curbside drop-off programs and trash haulers benefit from the redemption of CRV <br />containers the consumers discard. When the Bottle Bill18 passed, environmental groups and <br />lawmakers envisioned a network of redemption centers in supermarket parking lots to redeem <br />containers. But California lawmakers and environmentalists also wanted to encourage <br />developing curbside recycling. Operators of curbside and rural drop-off recycling programs are <br />eligible to bill the State for the CRV stamped on the labels of containers without offering <br />consumers refunds.19 Waste haulers were paid $146 million in 2020 for consumer CRV donated <br />to their recycling bins at curbside and rural drop off locations.20 The rate at which consumers <br />take bottles and cans for direct deposit refunds stands at 58.8 percent as of November 2021. <br /> <br />17 California’s population of 40 million is served by 1,553 redemption centers, per CalRecycle presentation, <br />Beverage Container Recycling Program, Certification and Registration Branch, 4 th Quarter 2018, presented in <br />January 2019. <br />18 AB 2020, Margolin. <br />19 https://www.CalRecycle.ca.gov/bevcontainer. <br />20 In 2020 haulers were paid $118 million for the CRV in curbside bins and $28 million for the CRV at rural, drop <br />off locations, according to the CalRecycle data analyzed by Container Recycling I nstitute. Corporate waste haulers <br />operate a majority of these of these programs. Municipalities operate at least ten percent of these programs <br />statewide.