Can and Bottle to open after 7 years with no redemption center in Ames (Ames Tribune Feature)

Thanks to the Ames Tribune for featuring us in their publication back in October 2022. Here are a few excerpts from the article.


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Although there have been redemption centers in Nevada, Boone and Ankeny, Ames hasn’t had a center since January 2015, when longtime business Ames Area Redemption Center on East Lincoln Way closed its doors.


“A couple years ago we were at Evan’s house, sitting around a campfire, and we started talking about the bottle bill,” Vaughn said. “We didn’t think it would get passed because it seemed to have a lot of resistance to it and there were a lot of different opinions about it.”


Fast forward a year and a half and Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the bill into law on June 17.

“I texted Evan the next morning and said, ‘I think we need to open a can redemption center,’” Vaughn said.


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New Bottle and Cans Redemption Center in Ames (Featured on WHO TV 13 News)

By Website Editor • July 13, 2023
AMES, Iowa — It has been years since people in Ames and Story County had a place to drop off cans and bottles, but now Ames Bottle and Can will fill that void. The business sits at 5820 Lincoln Way, Suite 106 and just opened up in December because of the recently passed bottle bill. “Someone should do something about this and it’s like maybe we are the people to step up,” said Evan Burger, co-owner of Ames Bottle and Can. “And of course when it passed we said wow let’s take a look. This would actually make sense in Ames, so we sat down and ran the numbers, and it looked pretty viable.”
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