• ma11en@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not just the recycled weight but the 5-10 cents per item which bumps up the value.

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      1 year ago

      Worked at a recycle depot once and paid out $200 for a bag of 5 hour energy drinks (RIP heart). The same bag of cans would have been around $10~$15.

      I also became interested, this article includes sale price of alluminum for 2019, some implications of China’s restrictions from 2018, and what the Ont. government was aledgedgly doing to undermine recycling.

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      1 year ago

      No I get that, but if they’re just scrapping the aluminum then they wouldn’t be in trouble for scamming the CV tax. Only way 9 tons of aluminum or glass is worth 10 mil is with a whole mess of cv fraud, but 178 tons of scrap aluminum and glass for 7 and a half mil? Sounds about right. Something is very weird with these numbers.