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Old 09-12-2004, 07:27 PM
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The soda cans or bottles that say ME or MICH 10 cents. Would it be possible to actually profit from taking a crap load of cans their?
Old 09-12-2004, 07:40 PM
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I guess if you had enough of them to make it worth your while. You have to consider gas and wear & tear on your car.
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Kramer and Newman tried that once. The only wey they found it financially feasible was to carry them in extra Postal Service trucks during Mother'* Day deliveries.

They failed...as they usually do.
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That was a good episode.

From what I hear, all the return machines scan bar codes now. Cans from out of MI have different bar codes which may not work with the return machines in MI.
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As of at least a year ago it still worked. I used to go to school in michigan. I would come home to wisconsin to visit my fam. I would buy pop down here and recycle the cans up there.
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When I went to the motocross races in Buchanan, MI I would walk around the campground park and pick up all the cans I could find and then we would turn them in and that is how we paid for the gas back to Chicago.

I remember when you could buy a 8 pack of pop in glass bottles and turn them in for 10 cents a bottle. We use to save those until we were broke and then would take in quite a bit for cash.
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that'* back in the day! glass bottles, when did they go out of sale, the 50'*? loL, just kidding


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It might work...especially if you still go to places where you don't send them through a machine, but I'm pretty sure that in Michy, that'* an illegal no-no.
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Originally Posted by opensourceguy
that'* back in the day! glass bottles, when did they go out of sale, the 50'*? loL, just kidding


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you are sooooo funny. They didn't change from glass until about 1979 or so. I was in like 7th or 8th grade at the time.


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