returnable

Example Sentences

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Volunteers could instead ask paddlers for returnables and trash at pressure points in the river as a service to paddlers; the returnable money used for walkie-talkies, garbage bags and cool T-shirts.

From Washington Times • Feb. 25, 2019

But what’s easy for those who send Oregon’s returnables on for further use is not necessarily easier for consumers, and in the end, that’s what counts.

From Washington Times • Mar. 27, 2017

A measure in the Oregon Legislature, House Bill 3349, would delay expanding the bottle bill’s reach until there are enough redemption centers to handle all the returnables that come in.

From Washington Times • Mar. 27, 2017

Grocery stores hate having to deal with frequently dirty, smelly returnables, which must be stored until they’re picked up by distributors.

From Washington Times • Mar. 27, 2017

But each evening, when the boy went home with a bundle of papers that had not been sold in the town, his father would sit up reading the "returnables."

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis