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DABSGT · Mar 21, 2015

Looks like they are heading to Walmart!

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ENC · Mar 22, 2015

Around here there isn't a deposit. Cans only pay $0.38 per pound. Probably about $200 worth. My uncle saves all the beer cans from his local bar and I help him haul them off every couple months.

Diamondpilot · Mar 22, 2015

ENC said:
Around here there isn't a deposit. Cans only pay $0.38 per pound. Probably about $200 worth. My uncle saves all the beer cans from his local bar and I help him haul them off every couple months.

Same here, they don't pay crap. About 10 years ago I got army volunteered to store cans in my airplane hanger for a friend sons Boy Scout Troop. We had 2 trucks and a trailers worth. It paid less than $100. They had a set of Lincoln aluminum wheels that paid $80.

I said no the next year. It stunk up my hanger. I spent 4 hours with bleach and a hose, cost me $25 in gas, and was a general pain in the ask. I said get wheels if you want to mess with anything and I will make a donation if it keeps that mess off my hands.

Chris

Redneck in training · Mar 23, 2015

When I moved to Iowa we had cans and bottles laying everywhere in ditches, median, around the lake in parks. Then, I think, beginning 2000 we had to pay 5 cent deposit for cans. In one season all cans and bottles picked up. When we went to a lake we had to bring plastic bags and our kids (then 6 and 9) would pick all cans they could find and return them for deposit. I don't remember how much money they made but it was substantial amount. Stores hate deposit but it had definitely positive effect.

PhysAssist · Mar 23, 2015

Here too, it's rare to see many laying along the road any more. We periodically load up the back ourxtruck and take $60 -80 worth of cans and bottles back.

I do see plenty of people toss them in the garbage at work and can never understand why they want to throw away the nickel...

3930dave · Mar 23, 2015

I'd have thought "What are the odds ?"........ but apparently fishing trawlers do snag submarines, sometimes with fatal results.

BBC News - Trawler 'may have snagged submarine'

BBC NEWS | Europe | Danish fishing trawler nets sub

Rgds, D.

rd_macgregor · Mar 24, 2015

Our provincial government has cleverly mandated a $.10 per container "deposit". I say "cleverly" because you only get $.05 per container back when it is returned. I save up all my cans and bottles and donate them to the local Habitat for Humanity Re-Store, since the return on these is too low to make it worth my while to take them back to the recycler.