• GardenGeek
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    1 month ago

    Ah, I see, that’s too bad!

    Luckily, we have a system here that works pretty well for plastic and glass bottles as well as cans. It’s only small change, but if you collect trash often enough, it somewhat does add up… I also keep coming across cans from before the deposit system was introduced, or, especially along the roads, ones that have been run through the road maintenance department’s shredder and are therefore no longer accepted. Right now, I’m collecting them and want to see if it’s worth selling them as aluminum scrap once I’ve gathered a few buckets’ worth. I recently found a video showing that this is apparently possible, at least in the U.S.:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5K0RT7cxs4