there's a brew-haha brewing in iowa over the grocers' refusal to accept returns on bottles & cans. a letter in today's register hits the bullseye.

DesMoinesRegister.com: "Your Jan. 7 story ('Iowa Threatens To Sue Fareway Over Bottles') stated 92 percent of bottles and cans sold are returned and 1.4 billion a year are being returned. Some simple arithmetic shows that the unreturned bottles and cans represent profits to the distributors of more than $6 million. Maybe the distributors should share some of that wealth and set up recycling centers for the grocers that don't want to accept returns.
-Glen Breuer,
Coralville."