A day with Bradford’s bottle-sorting wiz

Brave Little State by Vermont Public Radio

May 7, 202624:15Society & Culture

Inside a cavernous redemption warehouse in the Upper Valley, customers come to exchange bottles and cans for coins — and to see bottle-sorter Teera “Sweet T” Paye. We visited thanks to a question from Kevin Donohue of Th...

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