I went to a local grocery store to recycle some bottles this evening. It was on my route and I really just wanted to get the containers out of my house. I had a collection of cans and bottles (15 total), bought from various places around town. Well turns out the store that I went to only recycles bottles and cans that they sell. While I can understand why they do this, it was still a frustrating experience as I was only able to recycle 5 of my 15 items and this is the only grocery store in town that takes deposit containers. When I went in to redeem my coupons I asked the lady at the customer service desk if there was someplace else I could take the containers. Turns out there is a bottle redemption place a few miles from my house, and hopefully I can get my containers redeemed there. I will probably try and take my containers to the bottle redemption center in the next week or two, however the problem is that they have very inconvenient hours. I truly support recycling, but I think that if it’s going to be effective, it needs to be convenient. There are some people that will make an effort no matter what, but there are others who won’t be bothered if it seems inconvenient. Plus if the recycling centers aren’t conveniently located then people will just end up wasting money on gas to get there.

Do you live in a bottle deposit state? If so, are the locations easily accessible and accommodating to most container types and brands?