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

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by 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...

Have you seen the price of gas?

[SportsJunky]

The bottle depot is not a place I want to be, ever. Blue bin all day.

[Coach]

I don't have a blue bin. So depot it is. But I would probably do it regardless

[gallione11]

Slightly different system down here -- you take 'em to self-serve machines at the grocery store -- but I take them in. Though I kind of do it the lazy way. I get a giant plastic bag from my local store from their bottle return, fill it up, and they give me $17.50 for it when it's full. They hold about 350 cans. Much easier than feeding the machines one at time. Granted, it takes about 6 months to fill one up, but whatever.

[Resolute 14]

Bottle depot... but only because we collect empties from time to time to help a friend's fundraising for the Ride to Conquer Cancer.

[Rerun]

Bottle depot, unless I get kids knocking on the door doing a bottle drive for a good cause... then I give them everything I've accumulated (sometimes 5 or 6 garbage bags worth)

[worth]

I don't have a blue bin...

I take em to the depot.

[gottabekd]

I take them to the bottle depot, but I've thought about just dropping them in a bin. This is actually some effort, because I'm in a condo.

The last time, it was a week day (I had the day off), and ended up wasting about 45 mins just to get $15 back. I figure my time is worth more than that

[Frank MetaMusil]

I figure I've already paid deposit on the cans and I'm just recovering costs. Roll it back into the beer fund and buy another flat on the way back from the depot.

Good system.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by Rerun

Bottle depot, unless I get kids knocking on the door doing a bottle drive for a good cause... then I give them everything I've accumulated (sometimes 5 or 6 garbage bags worth)

I get 2 or 3 bottle drives a year, I save most for the local elementry school's drive every november that helps them buy sports/computer equipment.

First year I had (according to them) about $200.00 worth packed in the garage and one of the parents brought be some great baked goodies from a bake sale to thank me but then it kind of turned a little as she started asking about my faith (it's a Catholic school) and would I be interested in other donations, I politely told her I wasn't interested but the kids can have the bottles anytime...6 straight years now I think.

[Coys1882]

Bottle depot or bottle drive - whatever comes first. Hobos do not get my bottles.

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by fotze

Need a third option, leave them out for chinese people.

I remember when I lived downtown there was nothing more annoying then a shopping cart going down the back ally at the crack of dawn. I swear to god no matter how many stories you were up you could hear it through the brick walls. For that reason alone I keep my empties.

Plus, it is easy enough to drop garbage bags on the table at the bottle depot and let them count everything.

[Rathji]

Bottle Depot for us.

Actually, we take our neighbour back as well. He used to toss them into the blue bin, but one party he had the bin was overflowing and we saw it, so my nephew had this idea to run over and ask if he could take the bottle back for some spending money.

Now we have a bin that sits on his back deck and if my nephew empties it, he gets the cash or else I do it and just put them with our bottles.

[#22]

Bottle depot.

Was just there last week. $112.46.....

[kootenayguy9]

It is different in Alberta as deposit is much higher so I definetly would take the bottles back. Cans are 10 cents here versus 5 cents in BC plus a jug of milk is 25 cents versus nothing in BC. The "friend" should take the cans to Alberta from BC......just like that Seinfeld episode where Newman and Kramer took all the bottles to Michigan because they had a higher deposit.

[monkeyman]

I hate the depot, i always feel like they're ripping me off (we all know they are). I found this place(http://vecova.ca), they're great. I usually just donate my empties to them now. I'd rather them have them than the city or pickers.

[Wormius]

I take them in. After the city's black bins came out we ended up with an unused garbage bin. We fill that up in a couple of months, and we have it located in a convenient enough place.

If there is a Scouts or school thing coming up though we will give them away, other we return them to the depot to get our cash back.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by monkeyman

I hate the depot, i always feel like they're ripping me off (we all know they are). I found this place(http://vecova.ca), they're great. I usually just donate my empties to them now. I'd rather them have them than the city or pickers.

It amazes me how lazy some people are. It's not hard to organize cans. I get flats from the liquor store and when I get to 20 flats, to the depot they go.

24 cans = $2.40
$2.40 X 20 = $44.00

They can't rip you off if you know how to do simple math.

[4X4]

I like to take my bottles to the depot at 37th and 26th, just to see how much balls they have that day by how badly they rip me off.

[bc-chris]

i'm stinkin' cheap... i always return any empty cans/bottles we have

it also doesn't hurt that the depot is about 1 minute from 2 of my customers so i just throw them in the back of my truck when i'm going to do pickups/deliveries