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Article: THE END OF THE LINE FOR CNY BOTTLES; NEARLY ALL NICKEL-DEPOSIT CONTAINERS END UP AT DEWITT RECYCLING PLANT.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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Byline: Marnie Eisenstadt Staff writer
The smell is funky and sweet, old beer and soda fermenting together in the pores of the cement floor. The high-pitched hum of giant blowers pushing plastic bottles into a shredder is deafening.
Every working day, 865,000 cans and bottles are hauled out of tractor-trailers into this Tomra NY Recycling LLC plant in a DeWitt industrial park, on Falso Drive.
Nearly every can or bottle returned for a nickel in Central New York -- some 200 million a year -- ends up on this floor to be crushed or chewed up into scrap.
Tomra plants handle almost all of the returnables Upstate and in some parts of New York ...