[bk1000]

Back when there were deposits on returnable bottles, there was a cottage industry of kids with wagons seeking them out to earn spending money. Of course those bottles were stouter made and worthy of reuse. Now the idea is to take used products and and turn them into new material in order to make something else out of it.

[Mears]

“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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[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’ve always lived in places where recycling was a Big Deal, so I’ve recycled as an adult and also since I was a kid - because Grandpa never wasted a thing. Coffee cans were his ‘recyclable of choice.’ There wasn’t a thing he couldn’t do with them, but they mainly organized all of his OTHER salvaged junk.

Sawed down, they made the BEST bait cans, though. ;)

I have a quilt that I use as an art piece in my home. I’ll never part with it, because it’s made from scraps of a lot of the clothing we all wore. You wore your clothes until they plain wore OUT. So many fun memories of my family when I look at it. Scraps of sun dresses, Grandpa’s old fishing shirts and his Mr. Greenjeans chino pants he always wore, Grandma’s flowery housedresses and aprons, etc. :)

I’m a huge re-user and composter. But, I do it for MY personal benefit. I kind of thought ‘recycling’ was a scam of epic proportions making a handful of people wealthy.

[Sacajaweau]

There was a time when dealers BOUGHT papers from homeowners. It was a good deal. Came right to the house.

I can still picture the bundles tied with twine and piled 6 feet high in the garage.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Back when there were deposits on returnable bottles,***

Some states still do this. I remember, not long ago, there was a scandal in which enterprising people were scrounging bottles in “non-returnable” states, hauling them to returnable states to get the deposits.

[tubebender]

I still see our homeless BUMs pushing bicycles loaded with cans and plastic bottles to the recycling center here. Of course all of it is pilfered from our recycle cans creating a mess for us to cleanup after them...

[Calvin Locke]

Of course those bottles were stouter made and worthy of reuse.

I listen to OTR. I think "Casey, Crime Photographer" had Anchor-Hocking as a sponsor.

In some of the epis, they hype the new, non-returnable beer bottles.

Of course, they also hyped the new Flame King(?) pie plates for 10¢.