[Jay H 237]

Just to jump back in here,

Team 237 has done very successful bottle and can drives. We advertise ahead of time mentioning a location and time and have people stop by plus we drive (locally) to people who call us to pick up thier cans. Two years ago we made over $500 on bottles and cans in one Saturday afternoon. We filled a borrowed dump truck (small dump truck-about 4 yard bed), my Caprice wagon filled twice (I put a tarp and plastic drop clothes over the interior, collecting cans is very messy as rochnthehawk mentioned), and an Astro van.

So, my point is, you can make decent money off of returnables that have a deposit. One final note, if you do a can drive try to plan it right after a major holiday. This is when people have the most bottles and cans they're looking to get rid of.

Now I know that Billfred was talking about nondeposit, basically collecting and crushing the cans as weight to be returned to a dealer. If you do this at a big game you should be able to make some money. For teams that are struggling every little bit helps. If they collect only $40 they will still be ahead and who knows what they could use this money for, a drill to help fabricate thier robot, sprockets for the robot, an endmill for thier Bridgeport, or to help offset the cost of shirts for thier team. That's $40 they didn't have before the fundraiser, but the main thing is they're getting publicity for thier team and who knows if while doing this they stumble upon a new sponsor or someone willing to make a donation to thier team.

Remember, you don't know if you don't try.