Thank Trump for cutting national forest management budgets. The whole country burned on account of that genius move. It's a wonder there was anything left after that to burn at all last year.

The problem is largely just that the refund you get back is not big enough for the amount of effort you have to put in, and that's true right now. Most aluminum recyclers here in Washington are paying about 30-45 cents a pound for scrap aluminum. I saved soda, beer and energy drink cans for nearly two straight years in bags in a storage space in my apartment, then loaded the bags up in my car and took them to a recycler only to get $4.50 for my two years of work.

It didn't hurt me to do it, and I like that I directly contributed to recycling that metal instead of it going to a landfill, but the amount of effort I put in for 15 pounds of cans to get less than $5 means it's not really worth the time or money to be doing that myself.

Ten cents a can, at 350 cans that's $35. Nice to be able to just throw that away I guess.

I've seen the machines, but no, I haven't done the bottle drop myself. It sounds like you can just get the blue bags and drop them off if you don't care about the deposit and don't want to deal with lines. And the limit of containers is 350 per day, which is far more than I use during my current recycling pickup time period of every 2 weeks. I could go months before collecting 350 containers.

As for the working and sanitary conditions, how is it different from a recycling center in Washington? Sounds like employee reviews are similar https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Bottledrop/reviews

https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Waste-Connections/reviews?fcountry=US&floc=Vancouver%2C+WA

I'm really not that familiar with the Bottledrop program in Oregon, so I appreciate the discussion. I'm definitely not sold on it, and it does seem to have some disadvantages and problems, but they also seem to do a better job in getting materials recycled. https://www.columbian.com/news/2018/oct/07/comparing-washington-oregon-oversight-on-recycling/

https://productstewardship.net/news/recovery-and-recycling-rates-oregon-and-washington

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Have you ever dealt with the can return in Oregon?

You have to go to a room that has these machines that are broken half the time. The room itself reeks of spilled sugary soda gone bad. It is infested with yellow jackets attracted to the sugar. You are limited to a certain number of containers per day. The employees that work in these places are miserable.

Maybe if the state developed it, it'd be ok but any mining company will just suck up the money and leave asap.

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I'm not sure how the systems work in those states, but it seemed to work great when I lived in Denmark and no one had an issue with it, maybe it just needs some adjustment to be more like their system?

Perfect lighting.

As someone who grew up in NY I second this. As a kid it was a chore but my parents let us keep the deposit money. As an adult it just sounds like a waste of time

They already are different.

They are different, the lids are all different! Wine cans get special lids, cocktail cans get special lids, and regular beer cans/soda cans get special lids. Tell your breweries/soda manufacturers to start putting no deposit lids on your cans! Call up Coca-Cola and tell them to stop sending bottles/cans with the deposit packaging to WA. Call up anheuser-Busch and tell them no more deposit lids for distribution in WA. I’m sure all the big manufacturers and distributors will get right on it.

the most often referenced graph originated on reddit, even [https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/azjti7/leonardo_dicaprio_refuses_to_date_a_woman_over_25/]

that's since been picked up periodically by gossip and news outlets [https://www.insider.com/leonardo-dicaprio-girlfriends-reddit-chart-2019-3]

just a meme/social phenomenon that gets more fun to follow the older he gets without deviation.

But how? WA has no income tax so I don't file a state return. The feds don't care about WA PFML, I'm not even sure this goes anywhere on the federal return.

that's just the most recent addition, it's an old meme/decades long pattern of behavior

leo does not date women over the age of 25.
it may be coincidence, it may be that as a woman hits emotional/mental maturity she gets disillusioned and bails, it may be intentional on his part - for more on this likelihood see the "pussy posse" of the 90s; a group that included diCaprio and tobey maguire, among others

it's a v popular meme at this point, twitter graphs and all, with endless material. currently his people are denying that he's seeing the 19 year old he's been spotted out and about with🤣

You get it back on your federal tax filing.

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Leo DiCaprio has left every one of his partners once they get to a certain age, 26 or 27 iirc.

If that agenda is reducing waste and increasing the volume and efficiency of recycling, then I don't see a problem with it.

same - i blame decades of medical tv shows😅🤦🏻‍♀️

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In Vancouver we already have a bad problem with homeless people digging through people’s recycling, stealing bottles and cans to take to Oregon, I wonder if this would make the problem better or worse.

It would be nice if recycling centers didn't send all the plastic to a landfill anyway. Just seems like a way to make money without changing anything.