I thought only South Australia had a deposit scheme like that. Oregon, I salute you!
Here, there are a few dozen recycling depots - the retail shops don't have to take the empties. The problem of people not bothering is solved by the presence of homeless people (yes, even in our hippy-fascist social utopia
) who scratch together a trickle of income by collecting and returning empty bottles and cans.
Pretty much as soon as you cross the border into another state, the roadsides are littered with enough drink containers that it would be economically viable to collect them if only they had deposits.