[CurlyDave]

Anyone out there with some answers?

I didn't know it was illegal to crush used cans in Oregon, but it does prevent you from getting your deposit back on the cans.

In the great state of OR, you must be able to read the bar code on the can to get money back.

In front of every grocery store is a gadget about the size of a coke machine, which works like a coke machine in reverse. You put the can in, the machine reads the bar code and if it is acceptable, stores the can's value in its memory, and the can itself in its bowels. It rejects some cans, damaged ones, ones that store doesn't sell, etc.

When you are done with putting cans in, you press a button somewhere & it prints out a ticket for you to take to a chashier for your money back.

If you think this is a PITA you are right. The unstated part of this is that the cans always have a little residue in them -- the machine, the cans, and everything within 10 feet of it is sticky.

Because the cans have to be whole, an entire trunkload of them might bring back $2.

I don't bother to do it anymore. Even though I am retired, my time is worth more than the return from recycling cans.