This report was prepared under contract from the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (also known as CalRecycle). This report provides estimates of the statewide, weighted-average cost per beverage container to recycle for recycling centers that do not receive handling fees (processing fee recyclers), and recycling centers that do receive handling fees (handling fee recyclers). The new handling fee per container payment, effective July 1, 2014, will be equal to the difference between the cost per container for handling fee recyclers and processing fee recyclers.
