99 bottles and cans in my car

99 bottles and cans

So I drove around, all over town

Now I still have 99 bottles and cans in the car

What is going on in Augusta? We had four independent bottle redemption centers in town, and now none. The big one, that made their business on bottle returns and sales, has gone high end. No more returns … but buy at our store. The other three redemption centers closed soon after, blaming lack of space, difficulty in hiring workers, and overwhelmed by customers.

There are many homeless and transient people in our city who rely on returnables to eat. They have no car to drive out of town. You spend $5 in gas just to return $5 in bottles. That doesn’t make sense. What can the state or city do to fill this hole?

I thought that when the state set up the returnable program that there was a clause that said, “You sell it, you must take those cans and bottles when they are returned”?

Robert Nazlian

Augusta

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