D.O.P.-T.

We Safewayed. There are now two beverage container return machines on the outside wall. Finally! Thirty years after New York got them! No more clogging a corner of the carpark with a semitrailer with somebody in front checking in the cans and bottles. No more extremely limited hours for returning things for the deposit, forcing those poor enough to value it, including the homeless, to queue up in front of everybody. And the machines don't just make returns a lot easier and less obtrusive, they gamify the process. If there isn't a mob waiting for the machines, it's actually fun to feed the containers in, quite apart from getting a chit back. More containers get recycled that way.

My former housemate used to argue that any form of recycling was taking employment away from workers at the waste haulage plant who got paid for fishing them out of the trash. I disagree with her priorities; and I think that sadly there will always be jobs for people willing to sort trash, some people are lazy assholes.