We agree with the trial court that, while the use of reverse vending machines is widely accepted by beverage dealers and distributors, the Returnable Container Act (ECL 27-1001 et seq. [the Act]) is not violated by a distributor's rejection of returned containers dismembered in reverse vending machines whose brand and refund value cannot as a consequence be verified by a visual inspection (6 NYCRR 367.5 [b]; 367.7 [a]). The refusal of a distributor such as defendant...
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