Funny story…

I was recycling my cans at this big machine in a random parking lot (cuz that’s how I roll). I’ve done it at least a dozen times before and some of you may be familiar with the beastly type of thing. You shove all your cans into a hole and somewhere in the bowels of the metal box they get weighed and quarters are dispensed. You can get more if you go somewhere and deal with a real person, but I like the anonymity of recycling with a machine.

Anyway, as I’m dumping the cans in (mine and those of another lady who gave me hers instead of hang out – thank you lady!), I heard a noise coming from around the corner of the machine. I assumed it was just the noise of things rattling around inside but when I looked there was a huge pile of cans that I didn’t remember being there before.

Turns out my cans gave the machine gas because it was burping them out the side, into the parking lot!

Now here’s the moral dilemma (and I won’t tell you what I did because the only two things I could come up with could be wrong but feel free to tell me what you THINK I did).

Should I have picked up the cans and run them back through double dipping on the money but not leaving a huge pile of litter (kinda the whole point of recycling)?

OR

Should I have left the cans by the machine knowing that they had been bought and paid for but that there would be a pile of trash that most likely would not get picked up?