Add on $1.20

If you buy water bottles in New York, you will find another $1.20 tacked on to the price of your 24 pack. While the deposit has been in effect for soda bottles and cans for years, as of November 8th, the Empire State started assessing a 5 cent deposit on each water bottle. According to the law, though, any place that collects this tax also must refund it when the bottle is returned. So if you do save the bottles -- as should be required for recycling laws -- you can return them to the store. However, based on my experience with soda bottles, you will sometimes have to return them to the particular store you bought them from because stores will usually not accept bottles they do not sell.