What a state with a deposit on beverage-containers unwittingly enacts upon itself by not adjusting the amount of said deposit in response to inflation.
Maine's five-cents-per-container deposit began in early 1977, and yet it's still only that exact same amount today --- yup, in well over FORTY YEARS, the amount of "green" that you get for recycling a soft-drink bottle or beer can hasn't gone up past just a nickel, even though a "Tommy disc" isn't worth nearly so much nowadays as it was "way back when"! It's no wonder, therefore, that fewer and fewer people are bothering to actually cash in their own drink-containers or pick up ones that litterbugs have tossed... sounds like da classic "law of diminishing returns" to me... yep, da state had originally voted in da returnable-bottle law in an effort to reduce waste and beautify our countryside, but nowadays our roadsides and parks are actually MORE cluttered than ever before!
by QuacksO November 17, 2018
Get the law of diminishing returnsmug. 
Get the co-aunt-in-lawmug. 
Get the co-grandniece-in-lawmug. Relationship code in the International Maritime Law states that if you perform unlawful actions behind your significant other's back and he/she resides in a different time zone will not be considered as cheating
by Qaoz September 30, 2021
Get the International Maritime Lawmug. The great-grandmother of one's spouse.
My great-grandmother-in-law is a good person.
by Rwopazaq November 24, 2019
Get the great-grandmother-in-lawmug. A trap set by a mother in law whose child has moved away, mostly out of state. The mother makes grandiose promises in the hopes that it will lure the couple back home.
"Her mom said if we move back from CA that we will be able to get well paying jobs with Mr. Snidesworth at the laboratory."
"Be careful bro, it could be a mother in law trap."
"Be careful bro, it could be a mother in law trap."
by OneToothWillis June 1, 2018
Get the mother in law trapmug. by az1010 May 7, 2022
Get the aboods sneeze lawmug.