Fines for littering

I would love to see this applied.

I would really like to see a deposit of X pesos applied to the purchase of any beverage in a plastic or glass bottle.  That would ensure the immediate establishment of any number of 'pick up the trash' recycling businesses.

I would too.  However,  now you have to have a SYSTEM for this.  Imagine  colmados now needing to store empties for return.   

What they would end up doing is accepting empties from all over the place. While this gets plastic bottles off the streets and out of the garbage, now it puts the weight on the colmados, stores etc which they are not currently willing to accept. 

This needs to be well thought out! 

How do you stop every  bottle from the garbage dump being brought in for  payment of the "deposit" fee?   It may only be  5 RD but that would quickly add up. Who pays for all of that?  The manufacturers are not going to. The stores certainly won't.

My point,  its not simple!

Any bottle not marked for refund is not eligible.

Heck, they made it work in the states.  It isn't rocket surgery, somebody has figured out how to do it already.

OK so then they have to change out or adapt machinery to make the bottles, correct?

No honey, it's not rocket science but it's not simple either.

And sadly, we need political will.  That so far, is absent.

No need to change the machinery to make the bottles, they just get a label that says to redeem for refund. 

Or at least establish a value added reuse such as using for 'plastic asphalt' increasingly used in paving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_roads

In a couple of years we'll have a fully reusable new plastic polymer in wide use without the huge enviro downsides.