This is Why...over $600,000

Why should you return your wine, beer and spirit containers for deposit?

By returning your empty wine, beer and spirit containers for deposit as part of the Ontario Deposit Return Program, you’re helping the environment and reducing recycling costs.

Currently with the Blue Box, over 90% of glass is down-cycled into aggregate for road construction. While this is better than landfilling, no significant energy savings are achieved compared to re-using or recycling. Recycling will save at least 50% of the energy required to make glass out of raw materials, and re-using saves even more. The Ontario deposit-return system will see over 90% of the glass recycled into other glass products or potentially re-used, saving far more energy and resources than the Blue Box program.

As glass represents about 37% (by weight) of Blue Box materials, if every resident took their empty wine, spirit, beer containers back to The Beer Store instead of putting them in their Blue Box, this would save the City over $600,000 every year in recycling costs. For these reasons the City of Ottawa is asking residents to fully participate in this new province-wide deposit-return program.

Referenced from City Of Ottawa FAQ

I consider myself part of the Ontario deposit-return system simply because I know there are people out there that are putting their bottles in the bins because it is simply easier. Follow my simple guidelines and help us all out a bit. Do it for the kids ;). Thanks for caring.