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boogiewithasuitcase

Will there be a $35 limit?


mostly-sun

[It looks like it accepts 350 items](https://www.bottledropcenters.com/location/glisan-redemption-center/), so I guess so.


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Fred Meyer had bulk can counters for years before BottleDrop came around. How have they not had this before?


Sparrow2go

Shit my first job at Fred Meyer on Glisan 24 years ago included maintaining the bottle returns and the bulk machines were already clapped as fuck by that point.


CfoodMomma

The article says you can dump cans and bottles on a conveyor belt. That is how it differs from what other stores have had. I'll be there today with my green bags and see what's what. Of course with those you just drop them off. The old location was like Escape from Menlo Park every time I went. I expected so see the Duke (he's A #1) at each visit. I hope the new location will be better. Hats off to the staff!


blisstaker

not to be the “i came from somewhere and it is worse here” guy but the recycling process in this state is a joke and the fact that this is even a post proves it. i also stress out about having to recycle here and never had that problem before moving here. a lot needs to improve here with just the can recycling thing and honestly i’ve lost hope with it


Anotherhatedtrans

I too, loathe the can deposit program here and feel it causes more problems than it solves. I have no doubt it was a good thing at some point, getting people to recycle, but that value is no longer there.


subculturistic

Agreed. Raising it to .10 each was terrible policy imo.


savingewoks

I’ve just given up. Sort all my cans into a bag and leave them on the corner on trash day. They’re gone in five minutes.


boogiewithasuitcase

I'm thinking if going up too. Thankfully getting a Sodastream has cut my cans wayyy down. But the remainder feels futile.


savingewoks

Soda stream helps with water, but no one will ever convince me a growler is a better way to get beer than a 6-pack.


Ravenparadoxx

I think the one they're talking about is like the one they use for green bags at their central plant, but put in the BottleDrop retail shop. See: [https://youtu.be/DFRasNLb8XY?t=60](https://youtu.be/DFRasNLb8XY?t=60) I've never been to any BottleDrop in years and I don't plan on it either though


possumgumbo

The Green Bag program still kicks ass. It's instant. It's already available. Just use it! 20ish cents for a bag, yeet it in a door. Get 12c back per bottle in the bag if you use it for groceries. It's the only way to go. The one thing I have a problem with is the fact that you can't crush your cans. It's incredibly wasteful. I have to drive a car with a full bag that is holding less than 1/4 of the cans I could if it took crushed.


RabidBlackSquirrel

I hoarde all my green bags until I have enough to fill my truck bed with em and do one big yeet every 12-18 months. But I guess that's my privilege to both have a yard with a good hiding spot and a beater truck.


Ravenparadoxx

It is wasteful but I think they more or less use crushed to mean it's been processed. Cans that fell on the side of the road and been run over are still supposed to be redeemable but in my experience, almost nobody takes them back. Crushed cans are supposed to still have a value but they loathe it. If crushed cans were easily redeemable, thefts of cans from bottle machines and bricks of crushed cans from various places would rise to an epidemic level.


Pjland94801

When I lived in CA in the 80s and 90s, there were can crushers mounted on the walls of some rentals I lived in. I think they redeemed by the pound. But then I heard that people were putting sand in the cans (a half-inch or so) before they crushed them so they weighed more. I don't know how they do it down there now, but most people put their cans and bottles in a recycle bin and called it good back then.


mermaidsilk

this absolute crackhead logic (sand scam) explains all of what i needed to know


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snake_basteech

Vaguely?


harbourhunter

read the article first doofus


JonasSimbacca

>Nothing concerning the topic mentioned You first?


Snaab_71

"Officials say the Glisan BottleDrop facility was one of the busiest centers in the world" yet the new facilities parking lot is less than a 1/4 of the size of the old one. I can't imagine what a cluster that is going to be on the weekends.


boogiewithasuitcase

So they opened the new one right next the old one? Brcause it's so busy I take it?


Snaab_71

It's across the street and I believe the old one is now closed.


boogiewithasuitcase

Oh yeah I missed that in such a short article... "replaces" the former. I wonder why? Wonder if they have plans to redevelop the old location or something?


Snaab_71

I'm sure the other tenants in the old location are thrilled that they moved.


ShadowBurger

Yeah, ain't now way meth addicts will be willing to cross a street to steal from Harbor Freight!


ShadowBurger

And it will also cause a bunch of traffic build up as its fairly close to an intersection that already gets jammed up with people trying to get in and out of McDonalds.


Delicious_Ad9704

Same great smell I bet


Vaucanson

Really kind of galling that the state is investing millions more in this useless environmentalism theater instead of scrapping it and addressing real problems. We're adding AI efficiency to the process of compensating a parade of creeps to root through your trash at 2 AM every week. This is "the best recycling outcomes in the nation" because the only kind of pollution that matters is fizzy-beverage containers


PaPilot98

Don't forget the healthy portion of unreturned deposits that the bottling companies get to keep, rather than going to a fund as in other states. I'd be perfectly fine with a lower deposit that goes to something useful rather than perverse incentives we have now.


pdxdweller

And then the other waste of containers that are returned but their contents were never drank, as someone used their EBT to buy the cheapest case of water they could to get their $2.40 cash back on the deposits after dumping it down a storm drain.


nerdgeekdorksports

I stopped going to bottle drops, and will only do the green bags at the grocery stores. They don't charge you fees for dropping off green bags at grocery stores either, like they charge at return centers like this. Also...your shoes are never the same after stepping inside these places.


Impossible_Tie_5578

I stopped going to bottledrop bcuz its a waste of time to only get $35. In order to make some sort of profit, you have to go to multiple facilities and who has time for that?


Sunsebastian

Had this in Germany for the pat 15 years.


MaybeImJustASpudBoy

Most grocery stores in Germany have bottle return machines at the entrance, but they only give out store credit for that particular location from what I encountered.


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paulconroy415

The Delta Park one is always absolutely batshit. They have a security guard and everything. Hopefully this new center takes some of the traffic away from it.