How come (at least in California) you can recycle beer bottles for money, but not wine bottles?

[Throd]

When you buy bottled beer in California, you pay CRV to promote recycling. You would think the state that produces the most wine in America would have a program for wine bottles too.

[kentauros]

1. It could be a matter of volume consumed.

California may produce the most, but they also ship much of it out of state and country.

I would guess the rest are recycled like all the other glass containers without deposits on them. Or, they end up in the landfill.

[petronius]

2. Good question. Perhaps the wine industry had enough political clout to keep

itself excluded? Or, since part of the purpose was litter reduction, maybe it was argued that the place of consumption for wine is generally at home or restaurant, and those bottles were less likely to end up as roadside trash?