The same person who asked me several summers ago how you avoid the advisory for pollution in the Coralville Reservoir is the same one who burns christmas lights because they like how it emits colors.
Can/Bottle Redemption
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The same person who asked me several summers ago how you avoid the advisory for pollution in the Coralville Reservoir is the same one who burns christmas lights because they like how it emits colors.
I take mine to Hyvee, and usually have at least 20 glass bottles get rejected for either "store not accepting brand", being Crown bottles, too large of bottles,o or the barcode being unreadable. I just take them to customer service in my cart along with my tickets and they add them onto my total. Pretty simple.
I do something similar only it goes to the local pet rescue. They give me a big bag for the local recycling center and I drop it off every 6 months.
In Ames, aluminum gets sorted out with eddy currents and most of everything else gets burned for electricity. That's why I don't feel bad chucking my empty Busch Lights in trash cans at Jack Trice.
Local boy scouts have a drop off at Fareway I started to use when the pandemic started. Use to take mine back but now just save the time and donate them to the boy scouts.
I've never spend hours in line taking them back. I am usually in and out in 10-15 minutes with 2 garbage bags full. I drink a lot of pop and take them back when I have 2 garbage bags full in the shop.
Then use the money form the cans to get HyChi
Then use the money form the cans to get HyChi
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So I can't get rich hauling my cans printed with the 5 cent deposit down from Minnesota for the deposit? Bummer. Guess I'll just toss them into the recycling for the bi-weekly curbside pickup.
The recycling is pretty convenient especially with all of the cardboard shipping boxes from 21 century online shopping. Still only need to roll mine out one a month. They just added a small composing bin/can for food waster, pizza boxes, tissues etc. Going to downsize my regular can size to the smallest. Downside is everyone has three or four cans (trash, yard, recycle and now compose) in their driveway which is pretty unsightly. My garage is big enough to hold them but peeps on alley behind me have little 10 foot long drives littered with cans.
The recycling is pretty convenient especially with all of the cardboard shipping boxes from 21 century online shopping. Still only need to roll mine out one a month. They just added a small composing bin/can for food waster, pizza boxes, tissues etc. Going to downsize my regular can size to the smallest. Downside is everyone has three or four cans (trash, yard, recycle and now compose) in their driveway which is pretty unsightly. My garage is big enough to hold them but peeps on alley behind me have little 10 foot long drives littered with cans.
No and I believe most of them do. Bigger towns I’ve lived in seem to have them wrapped up in the water bill so it’s mandatory. I did have to pay extra for recycling service in Marshalltown and there were very few that did. Most people aren’t going to take the extra monthly bill unless they’re forced to.
I live in nashville tn. not a deposit state. decided to crush and save all my cans for years in the basement and see it it was worth it to get scrap money for them. saved them for about 4 years. collected (14) 50gal bags full of crushed cans. Yielded $9 a bag. 126 bucks.
still not sure if it was worth it.
No stores where I live take cans back at all. 30+ minute drive to the nearest place to redeem them.
I am still paying the 5 cent tax though. The only place in town that would even take cans closed down. They would pay out 3 cents per can and take the difference to redeem somewhere else in bulk for a profit. That was fine by me.
I take mine in bulk to a redemption center when they are open. Have two of the tall boxes in my garage. Usually wait till I have 3 full bags. Plastic is normally 7 or 8 dollars cans around 12. So it's about $25 per trip every other month.
When did the law change that required retailers to accept every brand that they sold?
I love my location with CanShed located in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids.
IMO, the law needs to be adjusted to where, if you sell the beverages, you are REQUIRED, to take them back. Otherwise, eventually the grocery stores will slowly stop and nobody will take them.
IMO, the law needs to be adjusted to where, if you sell the beverages, you are REQUIRED, to take them back. Otherwise, eventually the grocery stores will slowly stop and nobody will take them.
There’s usually a surge in mail on Mother’s Day weekend that gets sorted in Michigan, where the deposit is 10 cents.
If there was a way to put your bottles in the spill over mail trucks heading to Michigan, you might be able to redeem them there for a nice profit.
If there was a way to put your bottles in the spill over mail trucks heading to Michigan, you might be able to redeem them there for a nice profit.
Lock lodge has drop boxes in 4 towns and cans sorted and money donated to local school and other charitable needs. Takes time and effort, but runs $500 to 600 a month. We do it as part of our part to help. Only thing we hate are liquor bottles, they take up space and not worth the effort at .05 a bottle.
Not sure if the law changed or with pandemic the redemption center concept became popular.
I live in Dubuque and prior to pandemic HyVee and Fareway took back cans. It was a bit of a pain, but really not that big of a deal, only took 5-10 minutes every couple months.
Since pandemic only a can redemption center takes cans/ bottles. I actually prefer this method. Put cans/bottles in separate clear garbage bags. A person counts bottles/cans and go to counter to get refund $.
That said. It is a antiquated and BS requirement in communities that have curbside recycling.
