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Originally Posted by Hemlock140
When paying for garbage pickup, the local company provided free recycling pickup. Why would we want to bother taking the trouble to take bottles to a store and wait in line for a few cents refund when we can just throw them into the provided rolling bin along with the cardboard, plastics and other recyclables?
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If you live in an area without bottle deposits, no reason at all.
However, recycling on any kind of scale has only recently become popular with your average homeowner. Where as, in Michigan, people have collected cans ad bottles for decades and kept them out of the waste stream - because of the bottle deposit.
If you live in a bottle deposit area, and you prefer to just put you returnables at the curb, that's fine - I'm sure there are lots of industrious people who are happy to return them for you and collect the money.
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