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Josefa Teco organizes bottles for redemption at the Sure We Can, a Brooklyn non-profit redemption center, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in New York. They are called “bottle professionals” by some redemption centers employees who describe them as people who know by heart each recycling and trash pick-up route, who buy from other canners and who take the job seriously thanks to a 1982 law in New York that allows consumers to return empty containers for five cents.(AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Josefa Teco organizes bottles for redemption at the Sure We Can, a Brooklyn non-profit redemption center, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in New York. They are called “bottle professionals” by some redemption centers employees who describe them as people who know by heart each recycling and trash pick-up route, who buy from other canners and who take the job seriously thanks to a 1982 law in New York that allows consumers to return empty containers for five cents.(AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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