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You'll be able to find redemption at local supermarkets, liquor stores next week
By adamg on Sat, 05/30/2020 - 12:11pm
The state Department of Environment Protection announced yesterday that a Covid-19-related ban on bottle and can redemption machines is being lifted on Tuesday - which means stores that used to take returns will have to start taking them again.
Of course, in plague times, that means some adjustments: You'll have to wear a face covering while returning that basement's worth of returnables. Stores will have to put down markings every six feet to show the vast hordes of us desperate to reclaim our floor space where to stand while waiting our turn at the can and bottle munchers and set aside returnin' times for seniors. Also, where possible, they should put at least six feet between each machine, or limit the number of people allowed in a recycling area at one time.
Workers will also have to take steps to disinfect the machines before opening them up to empty them, in addition to taking other steps, such as wearing gloves and face coverings.
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stores that used to take
How about stores that always used to dodge taking returns? Will they start carrying their share of the load?
Still seems like an unnecessary risk.
I put a bag of returnables into my recycling barrel this week. All the measures we’ve taken over the last few months to avoid contagion I’m not going to walk into a trash barrel over $5. Not sure we you are insisting even more places do this.
If each place that sold
If each place that sold products in deposit bottles did their fair share on redemptions, things would be cleaner overall.
I have some sympathy for small stores. No sympathy, however, for those major supermarket locations that frequently dodge it - self-service machine out-of-order and having to wait at customer service desk until someone reluctantly counts the bottles and writes a slip.
No problemo
Call Mass DEP on 'em.
Starting with CVS and Walgreens.
ANY store that sells deposit cans MUST take 'em back.
Thank you for your post
Whole Foods is one of the major culprits. So is the new Star Market in Quincy. They make it as difficult as possible to make returns. Interesting that Maura Healy isn't on it. But i guess it's not identity politics related so she doesn't give a damn.
Roslindale can place on Washington
has been open the entire time so turns out you can just ignore the rules if it's easier.
Tremont Stoo and Shop has one
Tremont Stoo and Shop has one.
You could look at your large
You could look at your large collection of returnables and think, I should drink more water.
Water is delivered to a reuseable, or nonreturnable but recyclable container.
The recycling truck around here won't take the returnables if they see them.
Take this a step further
You could look at your large bottles of Someone Else's Filtered Tap Water and consider buying your own filter pitcher to see if your tap water can be redeemed.
Then invest in a better system if you think you need more throughput (or get a fridge that has one built in when you replace your old one).
Then get a seltzer making system and you are all set for the fizz.
MWRA
Just drink it out of the tap. Saves a lot of bullshit expenses.
ALL water in Mass (and possibly even other places in the US) meets Federally set standards.
But you knew that, right?
(waiting patiently for Orange Man Bad OMG bargle)
Filtering may still be desirable
because of lead or other metals in the plumbing that leads from the MWRA water main to your house. I use a Brita faucet filter, which may be unnecessary but also doesn't cost very much per year.