We have a program at our store now where customers can bring in their old paint for recycling.
We have a company that comes and picks up the drums of paint whenever they get full.
The rules are simple. It has to be paint only. We can only take the cans if they have actual paint in them. If the can is almost empty, we tell the customer to just leave the lid off, let it dry to a solid, and then put it in their household recycling.
We ask them to wait until staff can go through their boxes to make sure everything they are leaving meets the criteria.
I think you can guess where this is going.
On Monday, we had a customer who somehow got past everybody and left an entire shopping cart full of all kinds of bottles of chemicals. There wasn't a single can of paint anywhere in it.
Not one bit of it was able to go to the recycling company.
Not only that, but we weren't even taking any paint that day because all the drums were full and we were waiting for a truck pickup.
This isn't the first time this has happened.
Some people just fill a shopping cart and leave it all on our parking lot.
We try to do a good thing for the community and the environment and there's always some asshole who wants to mess it up.
We have a company that comes and picks up the drums of paint whenever they get full.
The rules are simple. It has to be paint only. We can only take the cans if they have actual paint in them. If the can is almost empty, we tell the customer to just leave the lid off, let it dry to a solid, and then put it in their household recycling.
We ask them to wait until staff can go through their boxes to make sure everything they are leaving meets the criteria.
I think you can guess where this is going.
On Monday, we had a customer who somehow got past everybody and left an entire shopping cart full of all kinds of bottles of chemicals. There wasn't a single can of paint anywhere in it.
Not one bit of it was able to go to the recycling company.
Not only that, but we weren't even taking any paint that day because all the drums were full and we were waiting for a truck pickup.
This isn't the first time this has happened.
Some people just fill a shopping cart and leave it all on our parking lot.
We try to do a good thing for the community and the environment and there's always some asshole who wants to mess it up.
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