I haven't done real calculations, but on the whole this is pretty low impact and doesn't require much extra effort or any special trips.
We rinse the bottles/cans whenever we are doing other dishes. We throw them into a bin that holds all deposit eligible containers. When the bin fills we take it with us on our next trip to the grocery store and recycle them.
It probably takes me about 5 minutes to feed them all in and it recovers about 3 dollars.
These days I get it in change and then give it to my daughter for her piggy bank. She's very young, but we're trying to introduce the concepts of saving early.
We rinse the bottles/cans whenever we are doing other dishes. We throw them into a bin that holds all deposit eligible containers. When the bin fills we take it with us on our next trip to the grocery store and recycle them.
It probably takes me about 5 minutes to feed them all in and it recovers about 3 dollars.
These days I get it in change and then give it to my daughter for her piggy bank. She's very young, but we're trying to introduce the concepts of saving early.