There is an odd New Year’s tradition in my house. Sometime in January, I take all of the bottles and cans I have accumulated over the previous year and cash them in.
It is actually a little disturbing to see just how much soda I consume in a year. So much sugar, but I guess we all have our vices. Giant trash bags jammed with countless cans of Sprite take up an enormous amount of space in my basement. I can barely fit all of the bags into the back of our GMC Yukon. It is incredible to see how much space it frees up once the cans are gone.
Because of the volume, I usually bring them to Can King, a bottle and can redemption center on Tarkiln Hill Road in New Bedford. Most redemption centers get paid a processing fee to accept bottles and cans. Some centers also offer four cents per bottle instead of the typical five-cent deposit…