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NY bottle deposit, a multi-million dollar business
Written by Marnie Eisenstadt | Syracuse.com   
Nov. 19, 2009 – 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.
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Chris Henneberry unloads cans into a sorter at the Tomra NY Recycling
LLC plant in DeWitt. Tomra is a subsidiary of Tomra Systems ASA,
a Norwegian company that makes millions recycling bottle and cans.
The company processes 1.2 billion bottles and cans every year.

 
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. | READ MORE

 
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