From the comments, the culture that is German
In Germany, where I live, you get money back for plastic bottles (“Pfand”). Sometimes €0.25 per bottle. And yet, I collect them, without ever finding the time to cash them. I never outright throw them away, but leave them standing neatly close to public trash cans. They are gone in less than an hour.German colleagues are horrified by my barbaric behavior. I tell them that someone will recycle them, and get the money. But they are actually are horrified that I am not willing to claim the money as everyone else does. I can explain that I would be working below minimum wage if I were to spend time and mental bandwidth returning bottles. But these reasons are no use against the dogma that pfand bottles should be returned. Man macht das nicht.
One night I was drinking in a bar in Hamburg that sat only about 12 people. There were about four patrons there (including me) and we were all talking together. I had left my change from a 20 Euro and my jacket on the back of a chair at the other end of the bar. These Germans were absolutely driven to distraction by the fact that I left my money and jacket down there. I could see everybody, everybody was getting along famously, yet they kept telling me that I left my money on the bar. All I could do is ask “Who is going to steal it, you?”
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