"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
> In NY all aluminum beverage cans, plastic soda bottles, and glass beverage
> bottles carry a 5¢ deposit. Folks can choose to save them and return them
> to the stores themselves where they get the deposit money, or bring them
> to a neighborhood recycling center where they don't get the deposit
> money... many just drop the deposit containers off at the recycling
> machines at the markets where anyone can take the time to pass them into
> the machines.

I don't mind hauling them back, I just hate to put them in the machine when
it is crowded. Glass here, cans there and a line waiting for the plastic
machines. I found a better solution. The high school graduating class
takes them as a fund raiser the first Saturday of the month. Just pull up
and pop the trunk and they grab them out for you. .