I thought I posted this question on this Newsgroup yesterday but
evidently I screwed something up because it never showed up. So here
goes again.

I am a certified DIET COKE addict. Other members in my family drink
other COKE products also. Consequently I take several hundred aluminum
cans to the local Aluminum recycler every few months. Here in Nebraska
they pay less than two cents a can. However all the cans I buy here
have stamped on the top of them various return prices paid in other
states. For instance CA, CVR , MI says 10 cents. CT,MA, ME, NY, VT,HI,
IA and OR it is a nickel per can. I am planning a trip to San Diego,
CA in the next year to watch whales. Do any of you know if the
recyclers in California pay the 10 cents per can? Is this legal would
be my next question? With my homemade metal compacter I can easily put
2,000 squished cans in a Hefty garbage bag. $200.00 would almost pay
for my gas from Nebraska to California. One other question, what is
CVR?

TIA for any answers.
Dennis

According to TwoGuns :
I thought I posted this question on this Newsgroup yesterday but
evidently I screwed something up because it never showed up. So here
goes again.

You *did* post it yesterday -- and there have been quite a few
responses already.

*However* -- you posted it through Google, which is notorious
for not showing locally-posted articles until after too long a delay --
usually after a bunch of people have already responded to it.

If you are going to be sensitive to knowing that your posting
went out (by seeing it), go to a *real* news server, not something web
based like Google.

Good Luck,
DoN.
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In CA the redemption value is a nickel per can and sometimes you can get
them to pay you per pound for the aluminum on top of that.

If you drink that much coke, why don't you set up your own fountain and
avoid the cost of the canned product, the cost of hauling it from the store
and then dealing with the cans?

A regular poster here has info on his website about DIY carbonation.

see: http://www.truetex.com/carbonation.htm


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"TwoGuns" wrote in message
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I thought I posted this question on this Newsgroup yesterday but
evidently I screwed something up because it never showed up. So here
goes again.

I am a certified DIET COKE addict. Other members in my family drink
other COKE products also. Consequently I take several hundred aluminum
cans to the local Aluminum recycler every few months. Here in Nebraska
they pay less than two cents a can. However all the cans I buy here
have stamped on the top of them various return prices paid in other
states. For instance CA, CVR , MI says 10 cents. CT,MA, ME, NY, VT,HI,
IA and OR it is a nickel per can. I am planning a trip to San Diego,
CA in the next year to watch whales. Do any of you know if the
recyclers in California pay the 10 cents per can? Is this legal would
be my next question? With my homemade metal compacter I can easily put
2,000 squished cans in a Hefty garbage bag. $200.00 would almost pay
for my gas from Nebraska to California. One other question, what is
CVR?

TIA for any answers.
Dennis

TwoGuns writes:

Do any of you know if the
recyclers in California pay the 10 cents per can? Is this legal would
be my next question?

Sure. Newman and Kramer did it in 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bot...osit%2C_Part_1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bot...osit%2C_Part_2

On Sep 20, 9:33 am, Richard J Kinch wrote:
TwoGuns writes:
Do any of you know if the
recyclers in California pay the 10 cents per can? Is this legal would
be my next question?

Sure. Newman and Kramer did it in 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bot...osit%2C_Part_2

Oh well another good idea shot to hell by Hollywood.
Dennis

On 20 Sep 2007 07:04:48 -0400, Maxwell Lol wrote:

TwoGuns writes:

I am a certified DIET COKE addict.

Be careful of your health. Seriously. Too much soda of any kind is bad.
An acquaintance was somewhat addicted to diet coke -6+/day, then she
started getting all kinds of strange symptoms. Her MD finally traced
it to an allergic reaction to aspartame. Now she drinks water!
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

it's illegal to bring out-of-state sold AL cans into CA to sell;
just ask a local scrapyard here in Carson City who got caught
bringing in trailer truck load - the fine was well over $100K.

it's illegal for individuals to even bring out-of-state cans into
CA to sell - if caught you will be charged and fined. how do they
tell if a can came in from Nevada, or elsewhere? there is no
difference, the difference is getting caught doing it.

the state of CA is just itching to find persons doing this to make
an example of them, and to extort fines from them. here in Carson
City we get about $.35/lb, in CA i believe they are at $1.00/lb or
more.

don't pull into a CA redemption center w/ out-of-state plates!!
nuff said - there are many here doing that, but they will be caught
eventually, and pay the price.

barry
carson city nv

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barry wrote:

it's illegal to bring out-of-state sold AL cans into CA to sell;
just ask a local scrapyard here in Carson City who got caught
bringing in trailer truck load - the fine was well over $100K.

it's illegal for individuals to even bring out-of-state cans into
CA to sell - if caught you will be charged and fined. how do they
tell if a can came in from Nevada, or elsewhere? there is no
difference, the difference is getting caught doing it.

the state of CA is just itching to find persons doing this to make
an example of them, and to extort fines from them. here in Carson
City we get about $.35/lb, in CA i believe they are at $1.00/lb or
more.

don't pull into a CA redemption center w/ out-of-state plates!!
nuff said - there are many here doing that, but they will be caught
eventually, and pay the price.

barry
carson city nv

_____________________
Barry Tuttleman
Carson City, Nevada
websites:
industrial/manuals/slots/aircraft:
http://home.att.net/~btuttleman/barrysite.html
electronics:
http://home.att.net/~btuttleman2/electron.html



He should have gotten an empty container ( there are a lot of them
around coming from China) and shipped the cans to china and made a
bigger buck on them than in california.

John