Theresa Redemption Co.

12/14/2025

Hello hope everyone is doing well and having a great holiday season. Just wanted to post a friendly reminder that we also do free pick ups for all your returnable cans and bottles. Just reach out to us on here and we can figure out a good time to get them picked up. We can do Theresa and all surrounding towns at no cost. Thanks again Raechelle and Lance - Theresa Redemption Co.

03/10/2025

10/02/2024

NY legislators held an ”emergency” session in December of 2022 to give themselves a $32,000 raise (tax payer funded) because they felt $110,000 wasn’t enough to live off in today’s economy.

Yet redemption centers are supposed to survive on 2009 pay.

We have been begging for a raise for 8 years and they refuse to act. Our raise isn’t even tax payer funded and many redemption centers aren’t turning a profit anymore. Which has caused over 20% to close in just the last year. Taking 575+ jobs with them.

Hold your representatives accountable. If they don’t act to save our industry from more closures BEFORE the election, they are just further proving that we need new representation.

Governor Kathy Hochul Andrea Stewart-Cousins Assembly Member Carl E Heastie

09/02/2024

Please take the time to read.

Bills addressing the suppressed pay to redemption centers date back to 2017. This fight has been at least 8 years long now.

If this law were passed, allowing redemption center compensation to keep pace with their expense increases, they would be receiving a 7.5¢ handling fee instead of just 3.5¢. Hundreds of businesses and thousands of jobs would have been saved.

This we ask New Yorkers to celebrate their victories today, but help us fight our continued battle tomorrow. The Labor Day movement wasn’t just about an extra day off to celebrate workers. It was about fair pay, proper working conditions, appropriate work hours and bargaining rights.

Redemption center owners in New York deserve the same rights as every other working New Yorker. Please, call on Governor Kathy Hochul this week and implore her to call an emergency special session to finally address the suppressed handling fee. Legislators can, and will, pass bills A9044/S8520 if given the opportunity.

2017 Bill Language Excerpt:

(B) EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN THIS SUBDIVISION, THE HANDLING FEE
PAID SHALL NOT BE LESS THAN FIVE CENTS.
(C) BEGINNING DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, EACH YEAR A NEW FEDERAL OR NEW YORK STATE MINIMUM WAGE IS TO TAKE EFFECT, BUT NOT LATER THAN THE DATE THAT THE NEW FEDERAL OR NEW YORK STATE MINIMUM WAGE IS TO TAKE EFFECT, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DETERMINE THE HANDLING FEE TO BE IN EFFECT PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION. SUBJECT TO PARAGRAPH (D) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE HANDLING FEE DETERMINED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE:
(I) NOT LESS THAN THE AMOUNT IN EFFECT UNDER PARAGRAPH (B) ON THE DATE
OF SUCH DETERMINATION;
(II) INCREASED FROM SUCH AMOUNT BY THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE IN THE
NEWLY EFFECTIVE FEDERAL OR NEW YORK STATE MINIMUM WAGE; AND
(III) ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST MULTIPLE OF $0.005.
(D) THE HANDLING FEE SHALL ONLY BE INCREASED BY THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE IN A NEWLY EFFECTIVE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH
(C) OF THIS SUBDIVISION IF THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE IS SET AT AN AMOUNT HIGHER THAN THE NEW YORK STATE MINIMUM WAGE. OTHERWISE, THE HANDLING FEE SHALL BE INCREASED ONLY BY THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE IN A NEWLY EFFECTIVE NEW YORK STATE MINIMUM WAGE PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (C) OF THIS SUBDIVISION. IF A NEWLY EFFECTIVE NEW YORK STATE MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES BASED ON A WAGE RATE SCHEDULE THAT VARIES THROUGHOUT NEW YORK STATE, THEN THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE TO BE USED FOR CALCULATING THE HANDLING FEE SHALL BE BASED ON THE WAGE RATE APPLICABLE TO CITY OF NEW YORK EMPLOYERS WITH ELEVEN EMPLOYEES OR MORE PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (C) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S5366

08/28/2024

FYI….

The hundreds of small businesses we represent have been begging New York legislators for fair pay for over 7 years. Each year, their representatives fail them. During this election, hold your representatives accountable. If they don't take emergency action now by passing bills S8520 & A9044, many more redemption centers will be forced to join the already 145 closures this year.

Find your Senator: https://www.nysenate.gov/find-my-senator
Find your Assembly Member: https://nyassembly.gov/mem/search/

07/24/2023

430 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?

03/22/2023

If you try to get ahold of us please call 315-408-2437 or 315-408-4410 as the landline number 315-628-5712 is no longer in service. You can as get ahold of us via Facebook messenger. Thank you.

12/12/2022

Light the Night parade…it was great to see our village and town people along with others from out of town to come together and enjoy this festive evening 🎅🏻🎄

06/02/2022

A CAN DRIVE!

please bring all your cans and bottles over, there will be a truck outside waiting to be filled!

03/11/2022

We would like to thank everyone that donated cans and bottles to the Rajner Family can drive. The grand total was $699.00 Thanks again for all the support for a great family.