Finally! This is always something that's bothered me. Bars and restaurants now have to recycle beer and liquor bottles. http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/2239711/
As a preteen (and even as a teenager) I remember being thrilled to come across a discarded bottle. Because I could return it for a nickel or a dime. In fact, I would search for such golden trash, when I needed candy or comic book money.
No kidding! Wonder why this took so long. According to WRAL, I'm not the only one that was surprized that recycling hadn't been required before. As for the bar owners who are whining, shut your yap and serve everything out of a keg, if you don't like it. They don't throw kegs in the trash very often.
Its funny, up north you RARELY see bottles laying around on the roads and such because they are worth a nickel or dime. If the original purchaser doesnt get them, the first homeless person walking by will scoop them up. Here they are littered everywhere. Make them worth a nickel and I might just start picking them up
Hey, this reminded me of my old college day in NY: every weekend, we searched beer cans and bottles and got five cents refund each to help us pay for rent/college books. You can imagine how many beer cans and bottles on/off campus. Me and my roomies made good fortune and succeed paying rent on time and got new college textbooks instead of used one.
Yeah, there is good money in just the cans (worth about a penny each). We've got an older guy that lives where I work that picks them up and takes them to the recycling place. He's always telling me about how he made $30 this day, and $20 the next. I think he's got OCD because he can tell you EXACTLY how many cans he found on a certain day, how much they weighed, and how much he got for them. He has 3 or 4 old ledger books in his apt and has kept track of it since he started doing it in the 70's. He had open heart surgery last year and I told the doctor he'd better not put in aluminium staples or he was going to take them out early and recycle them We had another guy that we just evicted for non-payment (he just would not go to work). Well, he was always trying to beg money (which he spent on 211 beer). I told him to go get all the cans out fo the dumpsters in all the apt complex's in the area and I'd take him to the recycling place, but I guess it was beneath his dignity. If it comes to me jumping in a dumpster for cans, or sleeping under a bridge, I'm goin in the dumpster. Oh, it s a cash business also, dont forget to report it on your taxes as income
Is there some place you can take your cans to sell them? My family goes through alot of cans (must confess- diet soda junkies- especially with my 2 girls home from college on break) and it kills me to throw them away. In MA we were charged 5 cents when you bought them so you always made sure to get your 5 cents back when you returned them(they had machines at all the grocery stores). If anyone knows of somewhere near Clayton that would be great. Thanks. Meredith
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