[rhuru]

Here in california the fee per bottle and can goes to state as taxes. You can get it back by turning in bottles and cans at a recycling center but the California state had made it impossible to return these cans for money. They have systematically shut down automated recycling redemption machines, caused long lines at in person centers and so on.

[function_seven]

> They have systematically shut down automated recycling redemption machines

I remember these machines outside of every grocery store, and now I don't see them anywhere anymore. It never occurred to me it was a purposeful effort, but then again I never gave it much thought.

What caused the machines to disappear?

[jonny_eh]

> What caused the machines to disappear?

Because people hate the homeless and want to punish them, for some reason. It's the same reason we can't have comfortable public benches.

Edit: Grammer

[dragonwriter]

> Because people hate for the homeless and want to punish them, for some reason

It's more, I think, that people hate seeing the homeless, and want to keep them away. They don't particularly care enough to hate them, they just don't want to have to encounter them.

[exolymph]

I don't mind seeing homeless people, I simply don't wish to interact with them in any close or substantive fashion. It rarely goes well.

[jonny_eh]

That's a distinction without a difference.

[dragonwriter]

Insofar as the “why” of anything matters, it's not.

Insofar as only the action matters, the whole question of why is moot.