. . on all beverage cans and bottles, including beer but excepting wine and liquor.

We also have a sales tax on all devices with LED screens to pay for recycling them.

There is effort to place a similar sales tax on mattresses so a bounty can be paid for their collection. Some of our urban streets are lined with discarded mattresses. The mattress industry is lobbying against this tax, of course.

Disposal problems are increasing, because the public dumps have raised their fees very high, encouraging dumping by the roadside.

Large appliances are not a problem. Mexicans with pickup trucks patrol the streets looking for stuff of that sort to cash in. One of my clients is an appliance repair company. When they have scrap appliances, they just shove them out into the alley behind the shop and they're gone within hours.