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Posted on 03/21/2026 7:01:22 AM PDT by Puppage
Connecticut Democrats recently rushed through an emergency anti-fraud law requiring bottle redemption centers to collect a copy of a person’s driver’s license when they cash in more than 1,000 cans or bottles in a day — a document demand that Republicans say undercuts the party’s attacks on voter-ID rules.
Earlier this month, an emergency certification bill, SB 299, was introduced by top Democratic leaders in the state's legislature. It was later passed in both chambers in late February and was signed by Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, on March 3.
It requires people wishing to recycle cans for money to present a copy of their driver's license, put in place because the state has had issues with non-residents crossing their border to take advantage of it's higher return rate of 10 cents a can instead of five cents. The issue was reportedly causing the state to lose significant revenue.
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Cashing in bottles and cans takes away from their Profit from the recycling scam ,LOL
“...Scumbags...”
Communists ususally are, and they’re not the sharpest tools in the shed either.
They’re like toenail fungus....really hard to get rid of and brutally ugly, especially their AWFLs.
It was stupid to increase it to .10 to start with.
Constitution State, my arse.....
When is the state going to start issuing 1099s based on those drivers licenses.
Kind of a good idea now if California would demand IDs for copper wire at recycle centers.
More street lights would be working.
Illegal hit hardest
It’s not called the F you state for nothing...
This reads: "to take advantage of it is higher return rate."
This grammatical error always frosts me - I spent my entire career correcting high school students on the difference between 'it's" and "its" - and NO it's not a small thing, I see this mistake in newspapers and media outlets all the time.
But then grammar is no longer being taught in American schools - proper grammar is now seen as "White Supremacy" and "oppression" - I am not kidding, after having spent 33 years on the inside of the education system.
Another good example of how you need an ID to do various things in life. And even liberals support the use of ID for some of these functions. But the liberals draw the line at asking for an ID to vote. Go figure.
The can thing is funny because they are trying to close a “Seinfeld” loophole. CT is paying 10 cents a can. MA only charges 5 cents. So people were collecting cans in MA, driving them over the border and cashing them in for double the money.
I live in MA on the CT border. In MA, bottled water was not charged the deposit. But CT would pay you ten cents on the bottles. That is where I made my huge money—getting $3.60 per case of Poland Springs. Now I will lose my “part time job”, ha ha.
Guess I need to reach out to my CT buddies and have them take my bottles in. LOL
I thought the UPC code on the can would reject out of state cans run through the machines. Here in Maine it rejects them if not bought in Maine.
[Some redemption centers* have you feed bottles and cans into a box that scans the can/bottle and sends it various receptacle after crushing the can/bottle. You get a reciept to turn in for cash. You see folks with big bags of cans/bottles to turn in. I have had similar quanities and get about $5 after all is done. Not sure why they scavage for this for so lettle money.
* Other places hand count the cans you drop off. There also is Clynk which provides green bags tagged with a barcode you drop off and they count it later and apply the funds to your account.]
I just looked at what Clynk does and it does scan every bottle and can. They operate in Maine, New York and Connecticut as Clynk and Iowa as Droppett.
https://www.clynk.com/how-to-clynk/redemption-process/. The machine shown here is an industral version of the “reverse vending machines” others use. Which are apparently made by Clynk’s now parent company as I see Tomra (a Norwegian company) bought Clynk last fall.
I support this type of user supported environmentalism. The nickel does encourage some parts of the population from tossing a can out the car window. It also reduces the waste stream going to landfills and incinerators.
From the Clynk website.
Ten states have beverage container redemption laws: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Vermont. Bottle bills incentivize recycling by offering a cash refund for returned beverage containers, reducing litter, conserving resources, and encouraging a circular economy. The two states with the longest-running bag drop program – Maine and Oregon, boast the country’s highest recycling rates for beverage containers.
CLYNK partners with beverage manufacturers and distributors to ensure customers get their nickel or dime back seamlessly. By law, it’s the manufacturers’ responsibility to return these deposits, and CLYNK makes it effortless while championing recycling at its highest potential. Together, we’re turning plastic, aluminum, and glass into reusable resources—helping manufacturers reduce reliance on the planet’s raw materials.
*Susan V. Collins, President of Container Recycling Institute
Come to think about it, it is drastic punishment of the poor!
Recycling is mostly done by the homeless poor and minorities.
Exactly the kind of people who may be likely not to have an ID!
So Connecticut is conspiring to deprive homeless from substantial source of income!
Shame on them!
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