New in 2007 - Return Your Wine Bottle to the Beer Store!

In a way only the Government of Ontario could devise, starting in February 2007 people will be returning their empty wine and liquor bottles to the beer store!

As an attempt to increase the recycle rates of wine and liquor bottles, in February a 10 or 20 cent deposit on wine and liquor bottles will be added to the purchase price.

However, and really this is smart, rather then creating a separate return process for the wine and liquor bottles, they are just going to piggy back on the long successful system in place at the beer store.

The only oddity to this plan is that people will be returning the bottles to a store different from where they purchased it. On the upside for the beer store, I suspect it will increase their sales..."while we are here..."

Presently only 20% of wine and liquor bottles get recycled. In contrast, 96% of beer bottles and 90% of beer cans are recycled. It is hoped that this return program will increase the recycle rate of liquor and wine bottles to 85% by 2010.