What happens to the deposit money we pay on bottels that go into the city trash truck,brake ?

When you buy a bottled drink and pay the deposit, the retail store (NOT the drink company) gets to keep a small percentage of it for their costs in collecting it, and the rest goes into the recycling fund. Your refund is paid out of that fund. Whatever is left, because of the people who don't return bottles and get their deposit back, is put towards the cost of running other recycling programs.

Several years ago, New York substantially increased the deposit on bottles, to the point where it became worthwhile for people to go to other States and buy empty bottles from the places that refunded the deposits there, and truck them back to New York to get the higher NY deposits.

Those of you who watched Seinfeld will remember that Kramer tried to get into that racket - with predictably disastrous results.

Richard

They go to the landfill. You only get the deposit if you turn the bottles into the recycling center

You were unable to bring the bottle back in the condition in which you acquired it. Therefore, you lose your deposit, and the vendor will keep it.

The government keeps the money and uses it for bonuses for elected officials.

its income to the manufacturer of the bottled drink