Replanet

What I have to say about this place is more about the bottle return process in general. The attendant at this facility is very hard-​working and a very nice guy.
I am just a normal citizen that lives in this neighborhood. We get charged a nickel to a dime for every bottle product We buy. all I am trying to do is get that money back and recycle at the same time. Doing this has become nearly impossible. This facility always has one broken machine and a line of people. Not just regular people but people who collect bottles for a living. Whole families with small children going through our neighborhoods and digging through our trash cans. Last week I had two young boys on the side of my house taking bottles, easily trespassing. I shoot them away but if they knocked on my door I probably would have given them the bottles.
Anyway. The problem is there are no convenient alternatives for getting your money back. I could save enough bottles to make it worth driving to Simi Valley or Camarillo to a large recycling facility but I don’t want my yard to become a giant trash bin. (My neighbors are already aware that I live in a house full of alcoholics.) The problem is the fact that the state takes our money and makes it nearly impossible to get it back. My solution would be to have a limit on bottles returned at the small facilities at grocery stores such as Ralph’s. That would make it possible for every day people to return their bottles and cans. Most people don’t have the time and most likely end up throwing them in the trash. That’s sort of defeats the purpose don’t you think? I don’t know about you. But even though I am not poor I do not feel comfortable about throwing away money.