Dumaguete waste disgrace

[Arizona Kid]

19 hours ago, bastonjock said:

On a more serious note , why dont we ban plastics all together ,starting with bottles , i clearly remember taking glass bottles back to the store and getting my deposit back 

I would have thought , but maybe tgey cannot , design a plastic that can be recycled , many materials such as leather  ,cloth , wood and paper can be recycled , cant they come up with a pastic composition that can be recycled?

One of my things to do during summer vacation from school as a young kid was to walk around town looking for discarded glass bottles to turn in for cold hard cash.  We weren't rich!

[bastonjock]

4 minutes ago, Arizona Kid said:

One of my things to do during summer vacation from school as a young kid was to walk around town looking for discarded glass bottles to turn in for cold hard cash.  We weren't rich!

I wonder if todays kids would do the same ? Milk bottles were left at door steps and exchanged for full bottles ,, soda bottles were pay dirt , we woukd rumage through garbage looking for empty soda bottles , i remember that coke bottles paid more than the orher soda bottles 

[Jack Peterson]

1 minute ago, bastonjock said:

I wonder if todays kids would do the same ? Milk bottles were left at door steps and exchanged for full bottles ,, soda bottles were pay dirt , we woukd rumage through garbage looking for empty soda bottles , i remember that coke bottles paid more than the orher soda bottles 

 For those that Remember Some here & him Are Brits Bj really means "POP" bottles  Pulling you leg here baston Old mate 

[Arizona Kid]

3 minutes ago, bastonjock said:

I wonder if todays kids would do the same ? Milk bottles were left at door steps and exchanged for full bottles ,, soda bottles were pay dirt , we woukd rumage through garbage looking for empty soda bottles , i remember that coke bottles paid more than the orher soda bottles 

I remember one day when I was collecting soda bottles I hit pay dirt. Found a discarded car battery that I took to the junk dealer. Can't remember how much I got for it but it made my week!

[stevewool]

We use to go and collect rags and scrap iron and then wheel it to the rag and bone man for hard cash , a few bob use to make you feel rich in those days, what am I thinking a few bob in my wallet these days would make me feel rich .

[Arizona Kid]

29 minutes ago, Jack Peterson said:

 For those that Remember Some here & him Are Brits Bj really means "POP" bottles  Pulling you leg here baston Old mate 

Kinda funny but when I visit my brother in Minn. He also calls them pop bottles.

[Arizona Kid]

8 minutes ago, stevewool said:

We use to go and collect rags and scrap iron and then wheel it to the rag and bone man for hard cash , a few bob use to make you feel rich in those days, what am I thinking a few bob in my wallet these days would make me feel rich .

Bob?

[Jack Peterson]

1 minute ago, Arizona Kid said:

Bob?

 Maybe Steve will answer that as His answer will be a funnier version of what I would have Said 

[sonjack2847]

12 minutes ago, Arizona Kid said:

Bob?

1 Shilling there were 20 to a pound.

 

[stevewool]

5 minutes ago, Jack Peterson said:

 Maybe Steve will answer that as His answer will be a funnier version of what I would have Said 

I will try Jack but I am sure you could do better.

In the good old days of Pounds shillings and pence , you could buy plenty as a kid for a half a penny and if 12 pennies that would be a Bob or a shilling , I think I still have a shinny sixpence somewhere still and a dirty Thrupenny bit, and if you had a pocket full of pennies you did walk funny, all that weight you was carrying .