Well my bin finally got full after a few years. Regular consumption will do that.
So I went to squashing cans a few months ago. Got them all mashed and bin still got full so we took them to scrap metal dealer. Thank you now can we have your “driver” license?
WTF! No! Here is my passport card if you insist!
No! Must have “driver” license does she have one? Umm ok.
So no ID needed to vote, but to trade beer cans for $17.40, we MUST be able to scan ID and have your ADDRESS where you live! One would think this was a bankster, not a re-cycle joint.
Don’t know about you, but I am done squashing cans. They are going in with the garbage; I will not put up with this abuse!
I put my cans in a big old blue recycle bin and roll it out to the curb. Then a big truck comes and takes it. No DL to show.
My only guess would be they need your ID for the same reason pawn shops need your ID, in case what you’re turning in is stolen. I can understand if somebody has hundreds of pounds of copper, but not a couple Hefty bags of beer cans.
Roger that. And then to have the gall to reject a Passport Card is unacceptable.
I’m going the KC way. Just throw them. And my recycle bin is just a bin and not likely to go out to the street. Think I will recycle my can squasher too it is an eyesore.
That’s insane. ID to recycle cans.
If it was not for the meth heads, you wouldn’t be required to show ID. These MFers will steal and scrap anything they can carry.
Sounds like a spineless corporate liability relief valve — perhaps more perceived than real — encouraged by lawyers and insurers.
I don’t find the practice of compressing refuse and trading it for pennies on the dollar to be worth my time. We don’t have a landfill crisis or an aluminum mining crisis.
I have zero guilt about returning it to the ground where it ultimately came from.
Dinosaurs had no idea their corpses would eventually enable unprecedented transportation and climate control millions of years later.
Who knows what our mounds of plastic, glass, paper, and metal will result in millions of years from now.
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