I'll be road tripping into states that give refunds on bottles

is it worth it for me to bring a recycling container full of my bottles to cash in while I'm gone?

3/29/2008 10:38:48 PM

more weight = worse gas mileage

3/29/2008 10:41:12 PM

i think so. i'm pretty sure i used to date someone who did this on road trips to visit family

3/29/2008 10:41:29 PM

good call

^ hmm yeah lets do some math thinking here

$0.05 per bottle in NY and CT

I'll be through NY first... are they exchanged at just like most grocery stores?

[Edited on March 29, 2008 at 10:43 PM. Reason : -]

3/29/2008 10:41:32 PM

Yeah, that makes sense. Drive hundreds of miles with a sack of glass bottles so you can make five bucks.

3/29/2008 10:41:45 PM

he said he's gonna be road tripping already dur

and i don't think the weight is gonna make a hude difference in mileage... think about how much a car weighs. just replace your spare tire with bottles!!!1

3/29/2008 10:42:46 PM

how much space do glass bottles take up?
like a 12 pack of bottles... what are the dimensions of one of those boxes?

3/29/2008 10:44:35 PM

just not worth it man, fuck it

3/29/2008 10:44:59 PM

yeah I guess it isn't

3/29/2008 10:45:54 PM

this was already disproved on an episode of seinfeld

3/29/2008 10:46:21 PM

if you could crush it and bring the glass up in 5 gallon buckets and get it weighed, you'd bank. do any cans have deposits? or plastic bottles?

3/29/2008 10:47:01 PM

i'm pretty sure cans are worth 10 cents in michigan--that might be cost effective if you were going there anyway

3/29/2008 10:49:20 PM

I'm saving my aluminum at home to sell as scrap

^I wonder can you just pour crushed glass into the bottle recycling machine?

[Edited on March 29, 2008 at 10:53 PM. Reason : - I will investigate]

3/29/2008 10:52:24 PM

if you didn't pay a deposit on the cans/bottles when you bought them, you won't get a deposit back when you try to return them. the bottle return machine knows what state the bottle was purchased in based on the bar code.

i know this because i grew up on the NY/NJ border and if you bought bottles in NJ (no deposit) and tried to return them in NY (5 cent deposit), the machine wouldn't take them. when my cousins roadtripped to NY from FL (not a deposit state) their cans weren't accepted either, so I'd imagine you wouldn't have much luck with cans purchased in NC as well.

3/30/2008 2:01:21 AM

i forgot to add...you might have a chance if you bring the out-of-state bottles to a facility in NY that gives you cash based on the weight of the bottles and doesn't scan the bar codes...i've never tried this myself but it seems like it would work in theory

but if you're going to use the bottle return machines at the supermarkets, you're shit outta luck

3/30/2008 2:12:28 AM

one time I spent a whole day picking up aluminum cans thinking I'd make a bundle. then I only got 10 bucks for many big trashcans full. it sucked.

3/30/2008 5:52:51 AM