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What is the ruling on working as a truck driver to collect garbage containers, including recyclable waste containers, which are predominantly empty, used alcohol bottles?

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Your work as a truck driver transporting waste, including wine bottles, for recycling and utilizing them for permissible purposes, is unobjectionable. This is because it is permissible to utilize wine containers for permissible uses, and assisting in this is also permissible. It is stated in "Al-Taj wa al-Iklil" that it is permissible to benefit from wine vessels after purifying and washing them. Al-Qurtubi mentioned that if wine containers are not damaged, it is permissible to use them for purposes other than wine after washing them.

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