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Bottle redemption centers struggling

By David Abel

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 26, 2011

The number of bottles and cans being returned for the five-cent deposit has dropped in Massachusetts, in part because redemption centers are rapidly going out of business after two decades without an increase in their handling fees. Since 1995, the number of centers has plummeted by more than half, and during the same period, the redemption of cans and bottles has slid from 87 percent of eligible containers to about 68 percent this year.

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