Getting "Rid Of" your Aluminum Cans

[Diggin It]

One day I saw him in the park across the street from our house getting attacked by an old woman with a shovel. She was trying to move him out of "her" park. He just stood there and took the blows to his back. Whack! Whack! I called the cops and they hauled her off. Yikes!

 

[bigtiller]

I'm in NY, so we have deposits. I just hate how it's implemented. It only applies to some drinks. It's not all plastic bottles or all Al cans. If you want recycling, make it uniform based upon the material. We don't buy much drink that comes in the deposit containers, but we certainly have plastic and Al containers. I just have to have several bins which I go to a drop off place every 3-6 weeks with when I take my trash.

In Iowa, it is just carbonated drinks that are in return-for -deposit containers. I think a few states have expanded that to include other drinks but I'm not sure which states did that.

 

[ultrarunner]

We have mandated recycling and deposit law...

Problem is the stations that collect and refund deposits have went belly-up... not sure where the millions and millions collected goes...

Curbside recycling is available but you are out deposit.

One caveat is putting recyclables in trash will generate a fine and we do have recycle police...

I had a brand new never used 32 gallon trash can that was never picked up as I use the 20 gallon weekly service...

Started using the tote for aluminum cans and sure enough got a written warning for placing recyclables in the trash... never mind the brand new trash tote was never ever used for trash and other recyclables properly in my grey recycle tote...

 

[user.69169]

I got bored soakin aluminum off de plastic wid toilet cleaner, so plan B' load in truck and back up to bottle place gives me a nickle a can.

NY give authority over bottle deposit to Possum police, so dey can be kept off bugging hunters by makin complaint store won't take bottle back.

Good thing no deposit on most bottles here. I cut dem nice Welches juice bottles down for drawer separators in tool cabinet. Already paid for dee bottle, can't see sense to paying for plastic drawer box.

 

[hslogger]

Oregon west of the cascades makes a concentrated effort to recycle. There is a mandated bottle and can bill with recovery stations here and there. There are dumpsters at waste contractors where you can throw cardboard, metal and plastic cans, paper, and still some plastics even though that probably ends up in the landfill because China won't take our spoils anymore. There was a time in this country where every piece of metal went to a war effort and nothing was wasted. Recycling comes down to a consciousness and you can not give a RA about it or help. It didn't come naturally and took activists to raise concern and demand that we quit wasting so much.

 

[ultrarunner]

Oregon west of the cascades makes a concentrated effort to recycle. There is a mandated bottle and can bill with recovery stations here and there. There are dumpsters at waste contractors where you can throw cardboard, metal and plastic cans, paper, and still some plastics even though that probably ends up in the landfill because China won't take our spoils anymore. There was a time in this country where every piece of metal went to a war effort and nothing was wasted. Recycling comes down to a consciousness and you can not give a RA about it or help. It didn't come naturally and took activists to raise concern and demand that we quit wasting so much.

As mentioned, recycling has a long history... growing up deposit bottles exchanged at the market for full.

All through scouting we did paper drives and did well...

The church did glass recycling for decades with segregated glass bringing a penny per pound.

Thirty plus years managing residential rentals some families generate volumes of trash or mountains... It is sobering seeing all the made in China Christmas gifts in the dumpster months later... bikes only having a flat tire... Computers, Printers, TV and lots of broken furniture. Maybe people use to fix/repair than toss?

It is troublesome seeing carefully placed recyclables ending up in landfills as there is no market for it.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Which store does that? I know if you have the bag drop program card (which I do), you can avoid the lines for the machines and get 20% more at certain stores, but I didn't think stores took cans back anymore.

Sherm's Thunderbird. They are Southern Oregon only, and dominate the grocery market here. Their prices are as good as Costco, with a much larger selection. Plus, whoever the buyer is actually tastes the food he buys. You can get alder smoked coho out of Seattle for $6.97/lb. this week, and it's delicious. It's a U-bag-it store, and is huge. They also have bulk food and restaurant pack food, including frozen foods.

Sherm's - for Store 47865

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Portland has many many of those can machines. Portland Oregon. Usually in grocery store parking lots.

Take a minute and watch. You could write a dissertation on the aluminum can culture.

Here's where politics screws it up again. Two big industries in Oregon are wine and bottled water. Coincidentally those are the only 2 beverage container types that do not have deposits. Funny how that works.

The end result is, the street people go thru your garbage and take everything but the wine and water bottles.

Some residents separate them before they put them out, makes for less mess that way.

Water bottles up to 2 liters have a 10 cent deposit. So do drinks like Gatorade and energy drinks.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Don't give them any ideas. Waay too many BS laws already, don't need any more.

The only justification for any law is the failure of personal responsibility. Any time there is a new law, the scammers, crooks and slobs are to blame. They steal our freedom.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Around here they go in the semi-mandatory recycle bins by trash collectors. I stop at the metal recycler's yard often and do not see the piles of aluminum cans like you used to. Price is way down so no one bothers, poor return. I can tell when the price of scrap is down as the piles get huge at the recyclers yard waiting for an increase.

Ron