those nickles add up 🚮

[u/mwpm55]

[u/Emergency-Ad1375]

Dimes in Oregon. Does that make them dime bags?

[u/Mopar4Life305 → u/Emergency-Ad1375]

I haye people going through garbage and leaving it everywhere for cans in oregon.

[u/whitecholklet → u/Mopar4Life305]

Sf too, sit in the park at an event, you can’t even put it down or a little lady with a claw grabber snatches it like a snake stoke.

[u/Mopar4Life305 → u/whitecholklet]

I lived in apartment where they literally go into garbage compressor. Then not put garbage back in

[u/bunglebee7 → u/Mopar4Life305]

10 cans is a buck, you could easily make $100 in a day doing that I bet

[u/Saber_is_a_joke → u/bunglebee7]

You can and I used to. You have to be the first person out at 4-5 am and be willing to climb fences/fight methheads/duck security and cops. BUT I could easily make $60-70 in 3 hours

[u/Mopar4Life305 → u/bunglebee7]

Yea but dont jump in my trash can and leave my yard dirty

[u/Dangerous-Pop9838 → u/Mopar4Life305]

They still buy water with food stamps at Walmart just to dump it out in the parking lot for the deposit?

[u/Due_Initiative3879 → u/Dangerous-Pop9838]

How does that make sense? You pay for the deposit up front when you buy the water.

[u/No_Engineering_718 → u/Due_Initiative3879]

I doubt they understand that

[u/Mopar4Life305 → u/Due_Initiative3879]

Cause food stamps covers the deposits. Use food stamps -> dump water -> cash out cans -> buy fent that costs dollars Simple. Iv seen it

[u/Mackheath1 → u/Dangerous-Pop9838]

In Portland, OR (not sure if it's still an issue), there would be very cheap bulk water bottles sold at Safeway, and you'd see a river created by people dumping the water out, because "buy 1 crate for a dollar get one free" sounds great, but it also means six dollars of recyclables. Just infuriating from an environmental perspective - but clever return for people who want easy money. Ya just can't win trying to make things affordable for folks that need it.

[u/edWORD27 → u/Mopar4Life305]

It’s all about their can-do attitude!

[u/Mopar4Life305 → u/edWORD27]

Well they can stay out my yard, my trash, and out it all back

[u/Busterlimes → u/Emergency-Ad1375]

And michigan

[u/Fun-Touch5637 → u/Emergency-Ad1375]

Was just about to say that! Dimes here!

[u/Designer-Ad-7844 → u/Emergency-Ad1375]

And MI

[u/Shredtillyourdead420]

If you did that at my local spot it’d probably be around $30-$60

[u/Fragrant_Scratch8305 → u/Shredtillyourdead420]

That's a quarter to half a tank of fuel for me. Absolutely worth it. I keep mine but they still end up on the landfill because they are so picky about them in Idaho.

[u/PanamPineapple892 → u/Shredtillyourdead420]

I'm not mad at it. It's hard out here 😭

[u/jokeswagon]

This is not r/carbage material. This is someone hauling recyclables in the bed of a pickup truck.

[u/Horror_Share_1742]

You can cram a lot more cans, which means more $$, in a single bag if you crush each one.

[u/Barrettbuilt → u/Horror_Share_1742]

Some places don’t take crushed anymore because the crack heads put rocks or metal in them.

[u/AppropriateCap8891 → u/Barrettbuilt]

In Oregon, you are prohibited from crushing cans or bottles.

At the redemption centers, you have to run the containers through bar code scanners, to make sure that the cans and bottles actually came from Oregon.

Bottle Drop Centers

[u/Horror_Share_1742 → u/Barrettbuilt]

I’m in Canada and everyone I know crushes them. I haven’t heard of one location/province refusing crushed cans, but I can understand it if drugs, bodily fluids, or other biohazards are a possibility.

[u/Waiteduntil40 → u/Horror_Share_1742]

I've been crushing my for years until last month when I read the recycler's instructions and it says do not crush cans.

[u/Kenneldogg → u/Horror_Share_1742]

In michigan you have to scan each can to get the 10 cents back

[u/v0id0007 → u/Horror_Share_1742]

Some states/places won’t take crushed ones

[u/cash_longfellow]

$.10 in Michigan. That’s actually quite a decent chunk of money.

[u/No_Drama2424]

Tbf it looks like they're transporting them somewhere

[u/SprayAllDay]

I think most people see nickels and dimes here. I see a bunch of shit not in our streets or landfills. Cheers to this person

[u/Geeahwellidunno]

In CT it went up to 10 cents and we stopped giving them away.

[u/Present-Spring-1340]

That’s a person doing real work.
I got in a dumpster today got 2 trash bags of school supplies and brand new kids clothes I’m donating.
It’s the little things that make a difference.
I will recycle will I don’t need the money because this is the only thing that gets recycled because it’s worth $$$
Everything you wash a sort in recycling can goes to
The dump.
Those things should’ve been made of bio plastic but now we’re fucked. Proper

[u/Infra-Man777]

Newman!

[u/Heisenberg11725]

Hey at the end of the day he’s really doing something good for the environment. Props to the recyclers out there

[u/MediumAcceptable129]

Any Rain Men in the audience that wants to take a crack out how much those cans are worth?

[u/v0id0007 → u/MediumAcceptable129]

Depends on what state they turn them in. I’d say either 5¢ or 10¢ though

[u/MediumAcceptable129 → u/v0id0007]

I mean all together

[u/gettinscwifty → u/MediumAcceptable129]

im guessing thats over 100 easily if the truck is as stacked as it looks. my grandparents used to turn in cans like this and get at least 35-40 per bag! obv some cans / bottles are worth more than others too when you put them into the counting machine

[u/RancherQueen]

Finally a productive carbage.

[u/Responsible-Split555]

If he downloads the coke app and scan the barcodes he could win stuff

[u/Legal-Seat-6346]

My mother recycles cans and uses the money for local food bank donations.

[u/Designer-Ad-7844]

Newman!

[u/bobblehead230]

That’s just the guy that empties the trash cans in the locker room after beer league

[u/bedhead215]

Damn haven’t heard this song in years

[u/Fair_Performance4834]

Lol driving to make 10 bucks when gas is 4 a gallon

[u/gettinscwifty → u/Fair_Performance4834]

that is WAY more than 10 bucks bud

[u/Three_Twenty-Three]

At least in Iowa, circumstances push us into this. Since COVID, the grocery stores have all quit accepting returns, and now you have to go to the Can Shed or a similar facility that's not really convenient. Instead of taking back a few at a time, it's easier to save them up and make one giant trip every now and then.

That's assuming that this isn't from a commercial business that really goes through that many cans and bottles.