The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) has announced that the state’s deposit beverage container redemption rate for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2010, was 76 percent, a decline from last year’s 79 percent redemption rate, the highest rate since the program began in 2005.
Fiscal Year
|
Total Sold
|
Total Redeemed
|
Redemption Rate
|
2010
|
901,861,628
|
686,392,140
|
76%
|
2009
|
895,737,097
|
705,156,511
|
79%
|
2008
|
947,692,357
|
681,706,599
|
72%
|
2007
|
936,412,347
|
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