bwahaha.....

Glass has little or no value in the recycling market.

at the time of purchase next year.

https://calrecycle.ca.gov/bevcontainer/basics/

Wine and Liquor Added
Starting January 1, 2024, beverages with alcohol of 7% or greater by volume:
Will be charged California Redemption Value (CRV) and
Can be redeemed for CRV. This includes wine, liquor, and pre-mixed cocktails.
Prior to January 1, 2024, CRV eligible alcoholic drinks included beer and wine coolers with alcohol contents of 7% alcohol by volume (ABV).

Here in Germany.
Bier bottles, reusable, 8
Bier bottles with the porcelain tops, 13
Aluminum cans 25
Plastic bottles15 or 25, some are reusable.

to turn the stuff in? I live in Santa Clarita.

Go to the bottom of this page ... there's a place you can search with your zip code

https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/BevContainer/RecyclingCenters/

I would need to make an 80 mile round trip to cash in my returnables. We just throw them in the trash. Even the homeless won't take them because there is no local place to get cash for them. Recycling of Aluminon cans makes sense, but plastic wine bags and bottles can not be recycled. The deposits that are collected and not claimed go straight into the State budget.

It's not rocket science to rinse out containers and bag them until you have a truck full.

Or you can give that money to whoever hauls your trash by throwing them in the recycling bin.

I have friends and relatives living in rural California. Some of them keep their drink containers to redeem in the city a few times a year. My parents always did that when they lived in rural California. Or you can simply throw drink containers away and not worry about nickles and dimes.

We live in a densely populated area not far from a parking lot redemption center, the same parking lot where busses pick up and drop off farm laborers. I give our empties to a few local people who appreciate the extra money. One guy is an elderly recent immigrant now living with his grandchildren. He hates being retired and not working so he scours the neighborhood for cans and bottles and cashes them in when he can't carry any more.

But I gotta ask, why is money going into the state budget a bad thing? Maybe this looks like a regressive sin tax to you, which it very well may be. Frankly, the only containers recycled for significant environmental reasons are aluminum cans. It takes much less energy to recycle aluminum than it does to mine and extract it from ore. Even if the rest of the stuff ends up in the dump that's still better than having it end up as litter alongside highways or other public places.