MACS wrote:Frank... remember milk bottles? Recycled beer bottles? Recycled brown paper bags?
We were recycling sheit long before big brother said we had to, buddy. You know it, too.
I remember my parents leaving empty milk bottles in the box on the stoop for the milkman (ours was a man) to take at the next delivery, but no money lost nor earned.
Don't remember brown bags going anywhere other than in my recycling bin.
but, at least around here, beer bottles and cans, soda bottles and cans, etc. etc. had deposits charged to make people feel like they were throwing away money when they littered...idiots used to throw bottles and cans out of the car windows.
Somehow, turning that disrespectful act into throwing away money worked.
At least in MA...much less road side trash.
I think the redeemable money deposits above and recycling glass/plastics/newsprint/cans etc are mutually exclusive acts of recycling.