What Kathy, Pstty & I have done when we have collected :

George Senda
7 minutes ago

Regular bottles with no labels will be accepted at regular recycling facilities here in California.
We had a friend who collected cans and bottles & she literally filled her van and she got over $200 from it.
My girlfriend's patio is full of bags of bottles and cans.
Our Prius died and we have a GoFundMe page to help her buy another Prius.
When we DO have a car the cans and bottles pay for our gas and oil very week using oil as needed.
I used to carry my cans & bottles on the bus or in a shopping cart and would get $12-20 a time from ones I collected every day when I got to feed the 6 cats I feed daily.
There are a lot of cans and bottles lying in the street or on curbs every day.
I now save them for Kathy.
The record I found in one day just walking to cat feed or going to the bus at Amtrak here in Martinez, Ca. where I live was 50.
I carry a large garbage bag in my backpack to collect them for her when I go shopping for food and supplies.
Then she comes here and takes them home and adds them to the pile.
I think we have around 50 bags now on the patio however we have not counted them.
We are hoping we can get her girlfriend to come over and take Kathy to the recycling center when she comes to visit her.
Kathy lives 15 miles from me, her girlfriend lives 30 miles from her.
Also if you purchase a used one get a Carly device and hire a mechanic to check the car out or ask the seller if he is willing to have it inspected at a dealer.
If we had done that with some of them we would have not purchased some of the really lousy cars we wound up purchasing.
If you wish to help, go to go fund me and search for Kathleen Enfield.
We have had 7 Prius's, 3 destroyed in accidents caused by other people, including one where a guy in a Jeep put his car into 4 wheel drive and drove over our Prius while my girlfriend was sitting in it having just parked it at a supermarket next to her & that did major damage to the rear end, 2 were lemons, one we returned after 1 day when it refused to start when you pushed the start button.
IF you maintain the car, it will drive literally almost forever and very few repairs will be needed.
One myth of the Prius is that the batteries are too expensive.
The small battery that actually starts the car is $250.
The larger battery can be gotten for $8-1200 with a warranty and they will even come to your home and pull the old one and put a new one in.
I found a place in Fairfield, Ca. that will deliver all over the San Francisco Area where we live.
Toyota now offers a 100,,000 mile warranty on their batteries in new Priuses.
We are looking to get a Prius with the touring package as it has leather seats which are easier on your back if you take long trips as we do.
We had a succession of American made cars and all of them kept breaking down and once we switched to a Prius we had no repairs except for tires until the last one which blew the head gasket.
IF you park your Prius for an extended time without driving it make sure to disconnect the small battery from the main one as the small one will drain the main one.
That is why ours would no longer start and we spent $1300 to fix it and sold it at a huge loss.
Also, here in the SF Area, rings of thieves are chopping off catalytic converters.
Ours was cut off while it was parked and it cost us $200 to replace it.
The mechanics strapped it in and bolted it in to make it harder to steal.
Around once a week there are news stories where thieves are pulled over and their cars are filled with converters and tools for stealing them.
I've even seen ads on Craigslist where people offer to purchase stolen converters.
Rings here will go through entire neighborhoods and steal every converter from cars parked on the street or in driveways. They can remove them in 10-15 minutes and its a major crime problem in the 9 SF Area counties.
 

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