What does CRV stand for?

This translates to a reduction in waste hauling costs and an increase in revenue generated from the California redemption value of bottles and cans.

Segal, 61, pleaded guilty in March to various charges for exploiting the California Redemption Value program, under which California consumers pay a small fee each time they buy a beverage container.

The six priorities include: Reducing the sources of marine debris (by extending the California Redemption Value from bottles and cans to plastics commonly found in the ocean); increasing the enforcement of anti-litter laws and enforcement of water quality laws to eliminate plastic pellet pollution; identifying innovative ways to reduce plastic waste; expanding watershed clean-up efforts; increasing the availability of cigarette butt and recycling containers and trash cans, at public places and schools statewide.

Tina Gustavson Sherman Oaks Redeeming bottles, cans Re ``Recycling non-cents'' (March 5): Some time back an article appeared in the Daily News bemoaning the fact that although plastic drink bottles and aluminum cans had California redemption values of 4 and 8 cents, very few were actually being redeemed.

From those sales, the state Department of Conservation collected $325 million in California Redemption Value fees.

Andrew Glover Arleta Just another tax The California Redemption Value is a euphemism for just another tax on canned and bottled beverages.

20 a pound for the cans - 60 cents of which came from the California redemption value and the remainder for scrap-metal value.

In the case you have forgotten, it stands for California redemption value.