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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by biztos on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:27AM (#29623171)
For plastic bottles at least for the machine you would have to un-crush it, it scans the bottle.

For beer bottles, I dunno, try it out and report back?

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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by faeyanpiraat on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:39AM (#29626079)
It would be quite a long trip for me to try it.
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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by ratww on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:15AM (#29626494)
How do you crush a beer bottle? They're always glass, no?

Or do you mean the beer can? In this case they can't be crushed, because the barcode has to be readable!

A friend tried hehe. If they're not too damaged you can put them back into shape, the machine is quite robust.

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