Bottle Return

Don't know whether you had this in US but we had a 'Corona' man come round with bottles of 'Corona' fizzy drink and we would return the bottle for a small amount. Unfortunately 'Cornona' is not appropriate here given what's going on but I think the manufacturer of 'corona' stopped years ago let's hope the same with this virus!!!!!! :unsure:
 
Doesn't seem like you got that much $ for all the large bags. But still it's something and will the bottles be reused?

I don't believe we have any of that going on in my state. If we do, I would be surprised. We did a long time ago.
 

.05 a bottle. We just put ours in a blue box and the township picks them up. My father would take back all his empties to the liquor store for a refund. I don’t even know what deserves a refund. There are people who scrounge the road sides for empties to get money to take them back
 
Keesha said:
.05 a bottle. We just put ours in a blue box and the township picks them up. My father would take back all his empties to the liquor store for a refund. I don’t even know what deserves a refund. There are people who scrounge the road sides for empties to get money to take them back
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I sometimes watch programmes with 'Judge Judy' and I never understood why she would say to someone who was unemployed 'if you don't work collect bottles'. Think I understand, but not quite my perspective!!!!
 
Ruthanne said:
Doesn't seem like you got that much $ for all the large bags. But still it's something and will the bottles be reused?

I don't believe we have any of that going on in my state. If we do, I would be surprised. We did a long time ago.
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I was under the impression all states had that, but only 10 states are listed.
If you don't get money back, do you still have to pay the extra when you buy soda, etc.?
 
Treacle said:
I sometimes watch programmes with 'Judge Judy' and I never understood why she would say to someone who was unemployed 'if you don't work collect bottles'. Think I understand, but not quite my perspective!!!!
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I think she means if you have zero money, instead of complaining or expecting handouts that you’re better off picking up bottles...... offering to mow grass, shovel snow or do anything rather than nothing. In those regards I DO understand her logic.
 
When Dave and I were first married (47 years ago today!) we moved into a rental and the previous tenant had left a bunch of returnable soda and beer bottles. Hot damn! We took those suckers back to the store and got about $10. We thought we struck gold! LOL!
 
JaniceM said:
I was under the impression all states had that, but only 10 states are listed.
If you don't get money back, do you still have to pay the extra when you buy soda, etc.?
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I guess I don't know the answer to that...I don't know what the price would be without extra. Anyhow I don't generally buy pop.
 
Treacle said:
Don't know whether you had this in US but we had a 'Corona' man come round with bottles of 'Corona' fizzy drink and we would return the bottle for a small amount. Unfortunately 'Cornona' is not appropriate here given what's going on but I think the manufacturer of 'corona' stopped years ago let's hope the same with this virus!!!!!! :unsure:
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You can still buy Corona beer here in the uk ..it's very popular with the young who were taking it onto the beaches during the lockdown..

..but yes I remember the Corona delivery driver and his Fizzy drink deliveries doorstep to doorstep, just like milk deliveries.. . It wouldn't stay on the doorsteps 5 minutes now..

As for refundable bottles, we haven't had that since I was a child.. I wish they would bring that back, and perhaps the landfills wouldn't be filled with them..
 
When I was a kid, Dad would truck a case of their empty beer bottles and a case of my empty soda bottles back to the distributor for filled ones almost every other weekend; it was a life ritual! If you didn’t have empties to return, you paid the deposit fee, so anyone with empties returned them. Bottles were all glass then, and a case of even the empties had real weight to it, especially when the cases were wood with metal reinforcements. Glass bottles and wooden crates would be in service for years each, and you could tell their relative age by the wear on them. :)
 
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I grew up during World War Two. To go to the movies cost 10 cents. We would scour all the lanes in the neighbourhood for bottles, aluminum pots, and whatever was sellable. Aluminum was in demand. The dealer would assess our pile and pay us accordingly. But he just made sure we had enough for the movie. Scrap dealers made big bucks in those days. Copper is in big demand now. I watched a documentary from a country and young children were using hacksaws and hammers to take motors apart to sell for subsistence. It was sad to watch. This one boy was taking care of his little brother and even washing him with a hose he could access at the yard.

Anyway, the good news. Saturday morning was cartoon land. Bugs Bunny. And the Three stooges. We laughed so hard.
 

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