Because they kept some of my money and now I have no easy way of recouping that money. And I am a cheap ass who doesn't like to just toss money in the recycling bin.
Can Redemption
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Because they kept some of my money and now I have no easy way of recouping that money. And I am a cheap ass who doesn't like to just toss money in the recycling bin.
We have a redemption center but no curbside recycling. Our town recycling bins get pretty full. The redemption center is fine as long as you don't try and go Saturday morning or lunch time on a weekday. I can tell there are less redemption centers though, a bar 40 miles away brings their stuff to our redemption center, and those poor women, when they are sorting the stuff from the bar, it is completely gross.
I would love to put them in the recycling bin but I refuse to lose my 5 cents 
Hy-Vee sucks for taking things back. The machine always says "Store Doesn't Sell This Brand" even when they literally have it in the store at that time, and the cans came from there. I now just take them inside. They just ask for a count, and give you the check.
They then make some poor bastard go run the cans once you leave
Hy-Vee sucks for taking things back. The machine always says "Store Doesn't Sell This Brand" even when they literally have it in the store at that time, and the cans came from there. I now just take them inside. They just ask for a count, and give you the check.
They then make some poor bastard go run the cans once you leave
I didn't mind it as much when some of the stores had the bin that allowed you to just dump them in. Now you have to put in one at a time and it seems like they are always full. When they get full now I just open the door and reset it since they never lock them.
Yeah when we lived in Iowa, we never saved deposit cans/bottles. When you have effective curbside recycling, its just much easier to pitch them. To me, its not worth the time and effort to get your 60 cents back on a 12 pack.
Down here in KC, they dont accept glass in their curbside recycling, and from what Ive been told, it for liability reasons. I think a policy like that is more detrimental to the environment then the perceived reason for the bottle law is in Iowa.
Down here in KC, they dont accept glass in their curbside recycling, and from what Ive been told, it for liability reasons. I think a policy like that is more detrimental to the environment then the perceived reason for the bottle law is in Iowa.
I am sure the high school kid that then opens it and tries to get the bin out of there when it is overfilled loves you.
In CR you have to put them in a separate container.
While we are on the recycling topic. Towns that still don't have the rolling cans for everything is kind of a turn off to me. Not so much for the garbage and recycling because I can deal with that but I HATE those stupid yard bags. I love having a "Yardy" in CR and just raking/blowing all of the leaves to the curb.
I've been that kid and I locked the doors
The one I go to has 3 can bins and I'll switch to another one but if all 3 are going off and no one is coming out, I do what I can.
The bottle redemption centers lose a lot of money, that's why the one closed in Ames, and a lot of stores don't have them. We pay the customers 5 cents for bottle, Pepsi and Coke pay us 6 cents. So each can or bottle is 1 cent profit for the store. However the machines cost a ton, as does all the overhead to run the room. Plus you have to pay the people 10 bucks an hour to run it. For example, a roll of paper for the receipts costs the store 18 bucks. No money to be made, and it drags homeless people to the stores. Lose lose all around.
There is a redemption center in Ankeny that I go to. They give you giant bags you take in when you fill it up and they give you a fixed amount per bag. The redemption center itself is a bit like dealing with junkers in a post apocalyptic wasteland, but it gets the job done and is fairly quick and easy.
One more time, Iowa state law states that anyone who sells items with a deposit must take back the items and provide the deposit back. The business must have an exception issued from the DNR to not do this.
You can take them back to any gas station, liquor store, grocery store, etc. If they say they won't take them they are in violation of the law.
http://www.iowadnr.gov/Environmenta...y/Waste-Planning-Recycling/Bottle-Deposit-Law
I have returned cans to Casey's 100's of times and they never questioned it once.
Both of those redemption centers for our county have shut down. A little out of date I suppose. It still doesn't stop the stores from making it a hassle. I suppose when one makes me mad I'll load up the car and take a big pile to their front desk.
Clarence doesn't accept glass either. Only newspaper, tin cans, plastic marked with the recycle logo and corrugated cardboard. All must be separated - ish. And they pick up the 2nd, 4th, (and 5th if there is one) Tuesdays of the month, before 8 AM (boo!).
I wish we'd just get rid of it as well. Definitely not very sanitary to have in stores. Just remember, that kid bagging your groceries may have just spent the last 20 min carrying leaking can\bottle bags around. And yeah, the machines are terrible, not only are they slow since you have to load one at a time, theyre often pretty poor at actually reading barcodes. I just dont bother anymore.
ok first you say that you have 3 years of beer bottles in your basement and now you say "trash fire". Know how I know your house smells horrible?
