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by zoklet-enjoyer 1209 days ago
When I was a teen, my friends and I would dumpster dive the Pepsi distributor. We'd usually find stuff like Diet Dr. Pepper, but sometimes there'd be Pepsi or Mt. Dew. We'd usually load up my friend's trunk with Diet Dr. Pepper and take them out to his ranch to shoot them. Also I found some old Macs at my school one time, that was sweet
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I just don’t understand why they don’t drain them. Gotta be cheaper than landfilling/tipping fees, but maybe they’re sending them to a recycler that does that part for them.
Time. It costs the dude five minutes to dump an entire expired pallet and opening each can to drain it would take hours. It’ll all be compressed in the machines anyway, even if they bother recycling ( they often don’t).