"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> "brooklyn1" > wrote in message
>> In NY all aluminum beverage cans, plastic soda bottles, and glass
>> beverage bottles carry a 5¢ deposit. Folks can choose to save them and
>> return them to the stores themselves where they get the deposit money, or
>> bring them to a neighborhood recycling center where they don't get the
>> deposit money... many just drop the deposit containers off at the
>> recycling machines at the markets where anyone can take the time to pass
>> them into the machines.
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> I don't mind hauling them back, I just hate to put them in the machine
> when it is crowded. Glass here, cans there and a line waiting for the
> plastic machines. I found a better solution. The high school graduating
> class takes them as a fund raiser the first Saturday of the month. Just
> pull up and pop the trunk and they grab them out for you. .
>
Read my last statement. Many just bring a huge leaf bag filled and leave it
in the deposit return machine room, someone will push them through the
machines... I think that's a better solution than having to remember when
the fund raiser occurs, and what about the rest of the year. I don't have
what I'd consider a lot of deposit containers, I use the machines 2-3 times
a year, maybe $3 worth each time, I don't mind spending ten minutes to get
my deposit back, and I only bring them when I'm going shopping anyway, I
make no special trip. The machines at my stupidmarket are in a separate
alcove built on to the outside of the store, it's one of those all glass 4
season rooms and there is an attendant... it's right adjacent to the front
entrance in full view of the parking lot and the store's service desk, and
it's well lit, it's actually safer than typical ATMs.... the small
stupidmarket here Opens at 7 AM and closes at 8 PM, the deposit machines are
not accessible when the store is closed. They have those new high speed
type machines, they eat the containers as fast as you can feed them. There
are even those hand cleaner/sanitizer stations and wet towel dispensors.
That room is kept clean and safe. There are enough machines to serve our
population, I never had to wait more than a few minutes for someone to
finish, but usually I'm the only one. I do know that some of those return
facilities can be a disgusting mess, depends mostly on the neighborhood.
The only problem I encounter is sometimes when I get home and find the
deposit receipts still in my pocket, I forgot to turn them in at checkout...
next time.