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California Redemption Value

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I work as a recycling attendant at a recycling center in Northridge, California and have been working there for the past nine months. We recycle plastic bottles (e.g. Juice bottles, milk jugs, orange juice jugs, etc.), aluminum cans (e.g. soda cans, beer cans, etc.) and glass bottles (beer bottles, soda bottles, wine bottles, alcohol bottles, etc.). In the state of California, consumer are required to pay a 5 cents or a 10 cent tax for some of these products, depending on the size of the bottle (< 24 oz. is 5 cents; >24 oz. is 10 cents). This tax is known as the California Refund Value (CRV), which is also referred to as California redemption Value or California Cash Refund. For each bottle that carries a CRV, one of these phrases will be printed on the label so consumers know that it requires them to pay the CRV. This tax is called California Refund Value because when they buy the product in the stores and pay the …show more content…

He focused on my work because I was new to the company and I have had previous reports of material shotage in the containers and he chose facts that encouraged his theory, that I havent been doing a good job.
Although the containers were short in the center that I work, reports have shown material shortage at other recycling centers during the same period of time. The problem could be the driver, who can easily have someone along the route, waiting to take some of the recylables out of the container, or it could be the scale that RePlanet uses to weigh the materials or it could be the person recording the weights wrong. All of these are possibilities to the problem, but we wont figure it out until the boss changes his assumption and sees the need to pursue all possibilities instead of focussing on just

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