Did You Know That This Associated is Breaking the Law? Tell the Manager, Joe Viscomi : Let canners cash in their 240 Cans!

Canners contribute significantly to the success of the recycling system, thereby providing an important service to society! (Statistics suggest that Canners bring about 10% of the total amount of cans and bottles in New York State with deposits back into the recycling system.)

Canners save the taxpayers money by diverting large amounts from the landfills and helping recycle valuable material resources and energy! In the past 20 years canners kept out of our landfills more than 500,000 tons of plastic, glass, and metal.

But the majority of the more than 1000 New Yorkers who depend on collecting cans and bottles as a means of daily survival are homeless because of their low earnings. A major reason is the fact that most of the stores violate the existing law – the NYS Bottle Bill – which states that “[a] dealer may not limit the number of empty beverage containers to be accepted for redemption at the dealers place of business to less than 240 containers per redeemer per day”(NYCRR367.5 (d)). 240 containers amount to $12.