As usual, I've been letting my bottles and cans pile up beneath the sink, and on Sunday I finally hauled them out to the car and headed to the supermarket.
So I wandered around Wegmans for a good 10 minutes the other day looking for the bottle and can return machines. I started near the main entrance. No dice. Then I went down a level to the wine section. Nope. I went back up to the main level and went outside to the loading dock area. Nada.
I finally went to the customer service desk and got a blank look from the woman there before she told me, a puzzled tone in her voice, "We don't have one of those at this store."
And then it hit me: They don't have bottle and can deposits down here, ergo no bottle and can return centers at supermarkets. I guess after 30 years of living in states where they do charge deposits that it's a hard habit to break. Until Sunday, I hadn't even noticed that I hadn't been paying the extra 60 cents on a 12-pack of soda. (It also dawned on me that I haven't seen homeless people picking through the trash for refundable cans.)
But it is nice to know I can just dump the things out with the rest of the curbside recycling. But living in crunchy states has had another effect on me, as I'm constantly annoyed that several of my neighbors don't seem to have a problem with dumping trash into the recycling bins. Sigh.
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