[foolmeonce]

Good to know, but my memory of Maine is that these places look like trucking exchanges points that few tourists will investigate and I don't see the ethics in having easy retail that isn't also responsible for equally convenient recycling.

[bagacrap]

At least in California the idea seems to be that someone will find and return all the bottles for the deposit money, even if it's not the original customer. Even if you throw a bottle in the trash, someone will probably dig it out.