Re:Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun, zany approa...
by jstarfish on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @12:55PM
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I haven't seen the "un-vending" machines outside of NY.
We have to take everything to the recycling center, wait in a long-ass line and they pay by weight, not item.
It's not worth my time to bring single bags nor worth the space to hoard them at home so I just trade them to the neighborhood homeless guy for expired dog food and other sundries.
Re:Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun, zany approa...
by atdrummond on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:55PM
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Vermont has them as well (or at least did when I lived in Burlington a few years back).
Re:Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun, zany approa...
by weberer on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:07PM
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I've seen them outside supermarkets in Boston.
Re:Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun, zany approa...
by Broken_Hippo on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:09AM
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I think that places where I live (Norway) have to take back the bottles that they sell in their store - even gas stations - but the only place I see the machines is at the grocery stores. (Grocery stores are generally smaller but more convenient than they were in the US).
And it is by item - less money for small bottles (single serve soda, for example) and more money for larger bottles (1L of soda or juice). Aluminum is similar.
Not really. I think only 10 states have plastic bottle deposits, and I have really no clue if those are convenient for folks. I'm not from one of those states: You could take aluminum cans to get money, but it isn't convenient.
(In my current location, I can just take plastic and aluminum bottles to a grocery store to get the deposit back by feeding them into a machine. And most folks do this)