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redemption center

noun

  1. a commercial establishment at which trading stamps of a specific brand may be exchanged for merchandise.


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Consumers can redeem the deposit only by bringing cans and bottles to a redemption center or automatic sorting machine.

The Empire State has not increased the handling fee it pays to redemption centers since bumping it from 2 to 35 cents a bottle in 2009, said Chris Lonneville, the founding director of the Warsaw Redemption Center in rural western New York.

Another reason: California’s creaking recycling system can’t collect enough cans, one consequence of a program that has been crippled by redemption center closures and out-of-date policies that have made it harder for people to recycle effectively.

It is unfortunate that other bills still are alive: Legislation that would reduce unemployment benefits for people, many of them suffering from the pandemic’s fallout, remains viable; also, the bottle bill that would let retailers refuse redeeming containers if they are near a redemption center is still alive.

For years, Dwight Frideres and his wife, Judy, helped collect the recyclables at the church so he could take truckloads about 10 minutes away to a redemption center in Woodward run largely by people with disabilities.

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