“Back when there were deposits on returnable bottles, there was a cottage industry of kids with wagons seeking them out to earn spending money.”
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There still is in Massachusetts and now it’s old Asian ladies returning them,at least in my area.
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We have dumpster divers here in Upstate...5 cents a bottle.
In my town in MA it's the South American illegal alien squaws pushing stolen grocery carts who will rifle your trash to get the bottles and cans. They're like carrion eaters roaming the veld. I have to chase them away from my house quite often.