California has been quite successful with a beverage container deposit, so now the California State Legislature is considering a levy of a deposit on food containers. I can agree with the beverage bottle deposit because it helps clear litter from the countryside, but collecting the deposit is a darn hassle; so a lot of it goes uncollected and ends up in somebody's pocket - even though the bottle may have been disposed of in a recycling bin.

OK, so now they want to collect deposits on ketchup bottles and jelly jars, even though I haven't seen a lot of jelly jars along the highway. What I do see in my garbage can are lots of class 6 and styrofoam and mixed-product food containers that are questionably recyclable, and it's really hard to determine what can and cannot be recycled.

Instead of anohter deposit (which is really a hidden tax), the legislators need to force producers to use containers that are easily recycled.

At least, that's what   I   think. Too bad the legislators don't listen to me. They sure as hell listen to Big Business.

-Joe-

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By the way, I wondered what ASDA was, and Wikipedia came to the rescue:

ASDA is a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom offering food, clothing and general merchandise products. It became a subsidiary of the American retail giant Wal-Mart in 1999,[1] and is currently the second largest chain in the UK after Tesco, having overtaken Sainsbury's in 2003.
Asda is Wal-Mart's largest non-U.S. subsidiary, accounting for almost half of the company's international sales. As of January 2006, there were 21 Asda/Wal-Mart Supercentres, 243 Asda superstores, 37 Asda supermarkets (including town centres), 5 Asda Living stores, 10 George clothing stores and 24 depots (distribution centres) - 340 in total. Asda has 150,000 employees, who it refers to as "colleagues" (90,000 part-time, 60,000 full-time). The company is also engaged in property development through its subsidiary company, Gazeley Properties Limited.
As a wholly owned division of Wal-Mart, Asda is not required to declare quarterly or half-yearly earnings. It submits full accounts to Companies House each October.

When you post acronymns at Mudcat, remember that people on the other side of the Ocean probably won't understand you. So, ASDA is Wal-Mart. I thought the UK wasn't plagued by Big Wally.