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I was going to fill a big bag with cans and then turn them in for $0.10/can next time I was in Oregon. Then I found out that was illegal so I drove them over to West Seattle Recycling instead. (I thought the rationale for Oregon’s cash for cans program was that that was what the aluminum was worth so they didn’t care where it came from. But apparently there’s a fee added to each can when you buy it, and that’s what you get back when you turn the can in, so that’s why it’s cheating to bring the cans in from another state where you didn’t pay the extra up front. And the one place that I checked in Portland won’t even do it if you have out of state plates.) So if you’ve ever watched the cans piled up and wondered if you could get anything for them in Seattle rather than just handing them in for free… now you know. submitted by /u/bennetthaselton |
