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Why do people at the bottle return act like they've never seen a aluminum can before? (midwest.social)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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In Michigan, we have a 10¢ deposit on cans and bottles. They're refunded by feeding empties into a machine that counts them up. But there are never enough machines, so a line forms. And right now I'm watching 7 dopes inspect each container individually before feeding it into the machine.

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[–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago

I remember when I was in high school working in a grocery store bottle room, crushing all the cans people brought in. Those jobs are gone, now the customers put the cans in themselves, and the machine detects and sorts them into the right bin.

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