Pretty much that way!

When you buy a beverage in a returnable bottle or can, you pay the deposit to the store where you bought it. To return them, just bring them back to the store. Many of the larger stores have can counting/crushing machines and you dump the cans into the machine...sort of like Coinstar. You get a receipt that you then present to the cashier for $$$. I don't know if all cans are this way, but part of Idaho borders on Oregon. All of our cans have "Return for Refund" stamped on them.

I remember when the Oregon Bottle Bill (first in the nation) passed. It was the brainchild of a guy who owned a chain of convenience stores. Other stores fought it tooth and toenail because of the space required to implement it. (They have to store the empties somewhere--you should see their back rooms). I don't know how the deposits pass from the store that sold it to the store that redeemed it, but I am guessing that there is some third party involved.

Karen, do the math! Is it worth an occasional trip to Delaware??? Of course, if you could get to Michigan, "that changes everything," according to Kramer.