KENNEBEC JOURNAL • September 15, 2022
We had four independent bottle redemption centers in Augusta, 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. 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