Recycling is such a racket, at least in my current experience.

I try to do the green thing.  Actually, where I live in Roseville, recycling is built-in to the waste pick-up service, so we can just throw our plastic, aluminum and glass in with the rest of our trash, and rest assured that these materials will be sorted out and properly recycled.  But what about that deposit I paid at the register? Lost, at least to me.  I have no doubt Roseville is collecting a tidy sum for all this stuff, and well they should, I guess.  Those funds surely make their way into the budget somewhere; at the very least I would hope they reduce the cost we pay for garbage pickup.

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