Take your empties to the bottle depot or you use your City blue bin?

[KootenayFlamesFan]

(As per Sliver's request...........)

So I had a party on the weekend and I had my City blue bin rolled up to kind of where the party was happening for people to throw their empties into. About three-quarters of the way through the party, one of the chicks started giving me grief about throwing money away instead of taking the cans/bottles to the bottle depot. She then proceeded to take all the cans and bottles out of the blue bin, put them in a garbage bag, walked around the party collecting other random empties, and put the bag into her car. WTF

I don't bother with the bottle depot because I don't like the clutter of having bags of empties around. I think the square footage of my house/garage/shed are more valuable storing things neatly and I don't want to allocate space for a pile of crap that's maybe worth $20 a few times a year.

Where does CP land on this?

[Knut]

I take them to the bottle depot.

Use the money to buy some beer.... it feels like free beer.

[burn_this_city]

I also side with laziness, although around Christmas time I'll bag them up to tip the garbage man.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Poll added.

[shermanator]

Since I don't have a blue bin, I leave the bag outside for the homeless, and it is usually picked up within half an hour. They could use the money much more than I.

[undercoverbrother]

Take them to the bottle depot, most have a scouts bin. You can put them in there and the monies go to the scouts.

[Reaper]

Is it that much hassle to have a seperate bin for empties? I don't think so. But then again, in Alberta our deposits are higher than in British Columbia.

In BC - pop can = 5¢
In Alberta - pop can = 10¢

Damn right I'm saving those empties and taking them in. The last time I did I had three bags and got back $50. I'm cheap as f#ck so I see it more as getting my money back as opposed to dealing with trash.

[OffsideSpecialist]

One thing I do like is being able to take my empties to the same place I purchase my beer. Alberta should try to push something like that, it would probably encourage more people to return their empties.

[You Need a Thneed]

For the small amount of work that collecting them costs, it's easily worth it. We probably go through two milk jugs a week, plus other bottles, etc. A couple of times a year, I drive to the bottle depot (not very far away), and I get $20-40 out of it.

[MissTeeks]

I give mine to my grandpa and he takes them to the depot. Then he uses the money for booze for their monthly dinner at his seniors complex.

[Sr. Mints]

Oh man, I HATE the bottle depot. But I live in a condo and don't have any colour of bins. I was inspired to write a blog post one day regarding the topic. It's mostly full of ####, but here's the topical shameless plug, regardless:

What your cans say about you

You can tell a lot about someone by the empties they dump on to the sorting counter at the bottle depot. Even the way in which their empties arrive helps to paint a picture about that person.

The other day there was the middle class sports fan in his early 30s: tall, clad in jeans, shiny black dress shoes and a plain charcoal wool coat who’s obviously married with a young child at home.

He has a mix of Coke cans and assorted beer cans, the majority being Kokanee. I assume the off-label and biker beer brands are what his guests bring over, probably his friends who aren’t as worried about their appearances regarding the consumption of brand-named products as this fellow is. . . .

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[habernac]

I'm a cheap ####### as well, so I take them in. I get them from another person as well as they couldn't be bothered to take them in.

[Caged Great]

A dollar saved is a dollar earned in my books, so I take them in.

[corporatejay]

Blue Bin. The city uses the money collected to offset the cost of recycling. Around christmas i might got to the depot if I have a tonne of booze bottles but my time and space is more valuable than the $20 bucks or so I would get from them a couple of times a year.

[nik-]

Need a third option. Leave them outside for the homeless people.

[Reaper]

I'm starting to feel like an alcoholic reading this thread. People talking about how they'd only get $20 for their empties in a year when I'm getting that much back in a month. Time to switch to huffing gas...

[Puppet Guy]

take 'em to the depot, the money goes in the rugrat's piggy bank

[Knalus]

I used to put them in the Blue Bin, but I live in a neighbourhood where homeless go through the blue bins, and I had to deal with recycling everywhere in the back alley. It was winter, and I was still picking stuff out of the ice by spring.

I give mine to the community center, who has a bottle drop off last Saturday of every month.

[Kybosh]

I put my empties in the blue bin - that is code for donating them to the Chinese folk who walk up and down the alleys with their plastic bags and garden gloves.

[puckluck2]

I'm so cheap I brought back my 5 cent cans from B.C and sold them in Alberta for 10 cents!