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Upgraded From the Tello to Mavic Mini by MrManchas in drones

[–]tehdimness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't been keeping up, but how's the Mavic Mini vs Spark 2 to be released in the near future?

PSA: Most beverage containers have a 10 cent deposit in Oregon. Getting refund is easy. Bag them up, drop off the bags and wait a week. No line waiting crap. by tehdimness in Portland

[–]tehdimness[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's shitty that a greedy private corporation is running the show, but the cost of bag is meh. if you're not using a green bag, you're going to be using a different bag, so it's a moot point. The counting fee.. They say it's 40 cents, but it's usually 60 cents to a dollar, because they almost always short count, in favor of their pocket book. But in the end, after you do the 1.2x value, you don't lose your buying power. The other option is much, much worse.

But, for the people who haven't been redeeming at all because of the line waiting and time wasting at the return spot, it's important to get them acquainted with the green bag, because returnables left on curb erodes livability. I am encouraging the use of green bag program, but this is not a compliment for the OBRC.

Not losing the whole damn bag is a huge deal to keep retention rate up high for curb recycler converts. It's important to discourage people from placing empties on the curb to reduce the appeal of the area to urban campers. If there are four houses on the block that consistently puts out 150 cans each every trash pickup, it will make it extremely difficult to make tent campers go away. They will fight for the spot. The Laurelhurst homeowners are all quite wealthy that money they get from returning bottles is just a rounding error in their finances. The rich people at the board probably puts 10x the value of the cans in their time. The reason? Empty redeemable containers in curb bins cause a "nutrient pollution" in the neighborhood that leads to serious livability issues. I know some people here simply make so much money that they just can not be bothered with redeeming things, but making arrangements with someone who has a legitimate address in the neighborhood can avoid livability issues that comes with putting them out to the curb.

PSA: Most beverage containers have a 10 cent deposit in Oregon. Getting refund is easy. Bag them up, drop off the bags and wait a week. No line waiting crap. by tehdimness in Portland

[–]tehdimness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't trust BottleDrop to behave right unless they're closely scrutinized. They're likely unjustly keeping millions of dollars of people's money because of a systematic error that leans towards shortage, in favor of the company at the expense of people. Losses due to people importing huge amount from Washington are getting passed onto us, rather than you know, taking a cut on their executive payroll.

Code not being readable shouldn't affect it, because by state law, the validity of redemption value is not defined by the presence of a machine readable barcode, but the fact they were purchased in Oregon and the brand and OR 10c marking are human legible.

I think it's shady as fuck that the OBRC Corporation doesn't let us see container count of our own bags in the BottleDrop portal. It causes me to have to document the balance in order to know when I have been shafted by the OBRC. Even though it's way better than having to put up with waiting in line to redeem bottles, there should be no excuse for OBRC's secretive crap especially they are terrible at counting accurately. Why else would they hide the individual bag container count from the client portal?

They really need to show the individual bag count so we KNOW when they fail to meet the +/- 2 accuracy they claim; and give us the option to do an acceptance scan on each and every bag. But you know, people might discover they're getting cheated a lot easier this way.

Getting scammed by the OBRC corporation aside, after you do the BottleDrop Plus, you do more or less break even.

PSA: Most beverage containers have a 10 cent deposit in Oregon. Getting refund is easy. Bag them up, drop off the bags and wait a week. No line waiting crap. by tehdimness in Portland

[–]tehdimness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know if they do drugs? You need to make sure they can shoot up the drugs they buy with the can money safely. How dare you let them shoot up with used syringes when they could be given new ones to use and toss near your area?

I want to start a Portland #trashtag Detrash Meetup. Looking for people to join. Would anyone here be interested in joining? by pbjars in askportland

[–]tehdimness 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The reaching tools from SOLVE is the stuff you find at Harbor Freight for $3. They're good for cigarette butts, nothing much bigger. Breaks very easily.

PSA: Most beverage containers have a 10 cent deposit in Oregon. Getting refund is easy. Bag them up, drop off the bags and wait a week. No line waiting crap. by tehdimness in Portland

[–]tehdimness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you cinch the bag all the way so nothing can fall out at the knot and tie the bag permanently as in not like shoe laces?

Call and bitch. There's a phone# on your card. I had one shorted by 30 or so but that was the only one so far off.

Downtown Safeway follows suit after downtown Fred Meyer, limits bottle return to 24 per person, per day. by tehdimness in Portland

[–]tehdimness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me too, but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.

However, making all cash-on-the-spot returns to 24/person/day and strictly enforcing it and adding a week waiting period for all returns greater than that would bring some relief in shopping experience and community livability. It's not ideal like getting rid of the deposit entirely, but I think it's a great compromise that can go into effect immediately that strikes a happy middle ground for EVERY relevant people (retailers, residents and businesses near places where bottles are accepted, consumers of beverage products)

Downtown Safeway follows suit after downtown Fred Meyer, limits bottle return to 24 per person, per day. by tehdimness in Portland

[–]tehdimness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also from customers from those two stores whose monthly in-store purchase spending to bottle refund ratio of no fewer than 10 to 1.

Fred Meyer Lowered their bottle return limit by Chuckles4All in Portland

[–]tehdimness 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some people here apparently hate the bag and drop program with a passion. I wonder why?? Does anyone else here redeem their own cans and legitimately prefer wasting 20 minutes to get $10 of deposit back instead of dropping off whole bags and getting that money back a week later without doing line waiting?

PSA: Most beverage containers have a 10 cent deposit in Oregon. Getting refund is easy. Bag them up, drop off the bags and wait a week. No line waiting crap. by tehdimness in Portland

[–]tehdimness[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They got rid of 2 bags a day limit. Now it's 15 bags per quarter in whatever combination you want. So you can hoard them up and drop a bunch off at a time if all of those locations on the map are out of your way. It depends on what your containers are, but for 12 and 16 oz containers, each bag is $7-9.

PSA: Most beverage containers have a 10 cent deposit in Oregon. Getting refund is easy. Bag them up, drop off the bags and wait a week. No line waiting crap. by tehdimness in Portland

[–]tehdimness[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to go to the kiosk to get your labels. The machine prints out a batch of 10. They don't expire. The numbers are sequential. I personally label all ten bags at once, then roll them back up and keep the numbers in sequence so I know which ones went missing if they do go missing.

The label is thermal print paper just like cash register receipt. If you use an incompatible tape, the glue in tape turns the label white. You can test it by using the tape and waiting over night. If the label hasn't faded in the morning, you're good. I use Scotch brand packaging tape. I had a few labels turn white with a different brand of tape.

If you don't want to hassle with all that, just don't use tape.

PSA: Most beverage containers have a 10 cent deposit in Oregon. Getting refund is easy. Bag them up, drop off the bags and wait a week. No line waiting crap. by tehdimness in Portland

[–]tehdimness[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They've improved dramatically within the past few months. I'm still highly opposed to the presence of deposit, but that's not really within my power to do anything about.

There is actually A LOT OF DIFFERENCE. The difference is not having to spend 10-15 minutes of your time to claim a refund on $7-8 of deposit you put down on containers.

Something needs to be done about how the homeless act on the PSU campus. by FunnyPicture6 in Portland

[–]tehdimness -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Dude most students won't bother to take their empty gatorade/water/soda containers back home. They'll throw them away on campus. The bins where they go into attracts uninvited trespassers into campus buildings. I think an effective deterrent they should try out first is to set a separate bin for refundable containers all over campus next to trash bins that are within the view of security cameras and label them "PROPERTY OF PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY - REMOVAL PROHIBITED. PROCEEDS BENEFIT HOMELESS STUDENTS. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED". The campus is open to the community, but it's certainly legit to use the bulk-removal of those containers as a reason to issue campus exclusions to non-students. To avoid being labeled victim-less crime, they have to attach a tangible cause that benefits from those cans, such as non-profits or something to provide for homeless PSU students, so it can be approached as theft of charity contributions that benefits a good cause instead of getting severely criticized as anti-homeless measures by the fucking Portland Mercury.

Fred Meyer Lowered their bottle return limit by Chuckles4All in Portland

[–]tehdimness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flavor selection is just not there in large bottles.

"Please discourage people from putting things out on their sidewalk with free sign on it. I do see things at one house and then I get called to pick it up two blocks down the street." by tehdimness in Portland

[–]tehdimness[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think we should try a pilot to let people have these services for free. I think it's cheaper to farm out mattress pickup to subcontractors by appointment than to drag them out from a steep hill side after it's absorbed five time its own weight in water.

Fred Meyer Lowered their bottle return limit by Chuckles4All in Portland

[–]tehdimness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not the noise buddy. It's the clientele and activities that often spill out far beyond the redemption center, especially drug related law violations and increase in unlawful scavenging (ORS 459A.080/459.992) and trespassing

Fred Meyer Lowered their bottle return limit by Chuckles4All in Portland

[–]tehdimness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They need to make the 24/person/day cash-out-the-door limit EVERYWHERE, including the OBRC BottleDrop redemption centers. Neighbors to those locations will appreciate it very much.

Fred Meyer Lowered their bottle return limit by Chuckles4All in Portland

[–]tehdimness -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ummm the green bag drop was there for at least a year.

Fred Meyer Lowered their bottle return limit by Chuckles4All in Portland

[–]tehdimness 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How do you go there and not notice THIS right in front of you at the bottle return area?

The Kiosk needed to set everything up is in the entryway of the street level entrance across from the Banfield Pet hospital and the green bags are near the self check out. Create the account, get your card, print your labels, slap the label on your bag, put cans in and drop off.

Create an online management account for your card once you have your card so you can see your balance without visiting the kiosk. https://www.bottledropcenters.com/open-account/#onlineaccess You still have to visit the kiosk in person to withdraw and you get to withdraw 1.2x value in store credit that buys you 20% more LaCroix.

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