Recycling

NEWMAN: Well, I'm not paying the five cents for that stupid recycling
thing.
KRAMER: You don't pay five cents, you get five cents back. Here, read
the label here. (reads from bottle) Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
York. Refund, (brings bottle up close to Newman's eyes) vrrup, five cents.
NEWMAN: (taking bottle) Refund?
KRAMER: Yes.
JERRY: Well, what d'you think the hoboes are doing?
NEWMAN: I don't know, they're deranged.

NEWMAN: (peering at bottle label) What is this 'MI, ten cents'?
KRAMER: That's Michigan. In Michigan you get ten cents.
NEWMAN: Ten cents!?
KRAMER: Yeah.
NEWMAN: Wait a minute. You mean you get five cents here, and ten cents
there. You could round up bottles here and run 'em out to Michigan for the
difference.
KRAMER: No, it doesn't work.
NEWMAN: What d'you mean it doesn't work? You get enough bottles
together...
KRAMER: Yeah, you overload your inventory and you blow your margins on
gasoline. Trust me, it doesn't work.
JERRY: (re-entering) Hey, you're not talking that Michigan deposit
bottle scam again, are you?
KRAMER: No, no, I'm off that.
NEWMAN: You tried it?
KRAMER: Oh yeah. Every which way. Couldn't crunch the numbers. It drove
me crazy.

Sorry I tried to find a clip of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer and Newman go to Michigan to turn in their cans, but there was nothing on youtube but I found the dialog online. Anyway Jackson is as excited about the 10 cents per can as Kramer and Newman were. We don't usually buy bottled water or canned pop but Jackson saw a deal and was so excited that we can get most of our money back from the recycling. So we are following the example of the "hobos", except for the rifling through garbages part.