Originally Posted by felipegarcia

Isn't it technically illegal to do that if the can itself was purchased outside of CA (with no substitutions, even for identical cans)? If that's truly the case, that's an interesting one since they'd have to send their California cans back for recycling legally.

I did consider keeping every single one of my CA purchsed bottles in AZ to return them whenever I went back to CA (long story short, I bought 2 bottles of some exotic Stone beer and they charged me the CRV, but I was taking the bottles to AZ, and I was furious about those 70 cents or whatever it was -they were large bottles), but it wasn't even worth driving to the CRV place to claim my money. I'm sure that's how they make money, because I'm sure it can be uneconomical to go claim it, even if it's just a few miles detour.