Yesterday went to Ames Redemption again. I don't know if you all are as fascinated by the recycling conundrum or lack thereof that exists here. The saga and so forth.
Well, the recycling place started charging $2.00 a car for using their recycling facility.
We decided after putting off our recycling for the last month or so, the pile had built up quite high in our closet, so we should finally take care of that.
Now due to the craptastic bottle/can exchange facilities that exist in the supermarkets, we decided to just wait til we returned there to get our precious nickels back.
Last time, if you'll recall, we wound up being dissuaded by the lines and not feeling like dealing with the wait, what with the people who bring in their $20-garbage bagfuls of Icehouse and Bud Lite, we did not get to see all that action.
However yesterday we were there much earlier and the smell factor was considerably reduced.
I was surprised to see however that all the can/bottle counting is done by hand. Nothing too sophisticated about this operation!
Well, we got into line, feeling a bit out of place with our paltry dozen or so wine bottles and a few assorted soda cans to show for our efforts. Compared to the garbage-ful people.
The line went surprisingly quickly (only about 15 minutes) even with those folks who had to have their hundreds of cans counted and sorted.
At the end, our grand total netted us: $1.70
Then we went to the other building to deposit the non-redeemable plastics and glass containers and recycle any newspaper.
And pay $2.00.
So, at the end of us this, figured we spent half an hour, and were down $0.30!
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