Free groceries?!?

[JethroB]

As a kid in the 70s we traded glass coke bottles for crickets or grunt worms at a couple of local gas stations. I think it was an even swap then, a penny each. A couple dozen bottles equaled a few brim on a good day. Or light bread pinched on the hook in lean bottle times.

Here in the South all soft drinks are called a Coke. If someone says soda or pop we know you aint from around here. :dance1:

 

[Jim Nelson]

When they first started the recycling thing in Ca., I had a real good friend that owned a trash company and he said " This is the biggest rip off the govt. has ever come up with." We go through the motions but I will always remember how he laughed about it. Especially when they paid him extra for doing nothing.

 

[jmc]

Probably like many landowners with high traffic frontage, I wish they would put a bounty on fast food wrappers, sandwich pods, bags, and cups. Or better yet, allow us to throw it out on the nearest franchise's property and let them pick it up like we had to.

 

[4570Man]

Probably like many landowners with high traffic frontage, I wish they would put a bounty on fast food wrappers, sandwich pods, bags, and cups. Or better yet, allow us to throw it out on the nearest franchise's property and let them pick it up like we had to.

I can’t stand people that litter either but I don’t know how you chock it up to being the franchises fault. That’s as bad as the guns kill people or the spoons make people fat argument. The source of pretty much every problem is a people problem not a product they’re using problem.

 

[Oaktree]

When they first started the recycling thing in Ca., I had a real good friend that owned a trash company and he said " This is the biggest rip off the govt. has ever come up with." We go through the motions but I will always remember how he laughed about it. Especially when they paid him extra for doing nothing.

Being a lifelong New England Yankee raised to be thrifty, I like the principle of recycling, but it would be nice if those who mandate it first do their homework and determine whether or not there's a market for a given product. Plastic is a particular instance, where only types 1 & 2 (and apparently not all type 1) is considered recyclable, yet manufacturers are allowed to still package goods in types of plastic that are strictly single-use (and I'm not talking about plastic bags).

So much recycling is like driving an EV or other eco-car...you might get the warm and fuzzies about how you're helping "save the planet", but in reality you're not doing jack.

 

[Dftodd]

As a kid in the 70s we traded glass coke bottles for crickets or grunt worms at a couple of local gas stations. I think it was an even swap then, a penny each. A couple dozen bottles equaled a few brim on a good day. Or light bread pinched on the hook in lean bottle times.

Here in the South all soft drinks are called a Coke. If someone says soda or pop we know you aint from around here. :dance1:

I found that out the first time I visited KC Missouri back in high school. Where I grew up it was called a soda. And ordering at a restaurant you always stated exactly what you wanted up front. So you just specified which soda you wanted, tea, iced tea, or coffee or decaf.

I think the waiter was having a rough morning. But was going around taking drink orders at the breakfast buffet. He got to me, and I asked for a coke, wanting a coke. He asked "what kind???" So I replied "coke!".

He asked again "What kind???". I replied again "Coke!!".

He got flustered and stated that they call all soda coke!.

I then replied. I figured that out when you asked me what kind. But you to need to understand something. Where I'm from your order exactly what you want by the name of the product. So if you want coffee, you ask for coffee. You want tea, you ask for tea. I would prefer a Pepsi, but since you only carry coke products here can I please have a coke.

The guy looks at me and says...... what kind???? That's when I lost all patience. Flagged down the waitress at the next table and asked her to explain it to our waiter.

 

[two_bit_score]

Judging from the price of scrap around here, there isn't much market for metal either.
Recycling is mostly a feel good thing .

We did some appliance replacement and I took a refrigerator, stainless steel kitchen sink, water heater, gas cook stove to the metal recycler and got a whopping $28!

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[Jstpssng]

We did some appliance replacement and I took a refrigerator, stainless steel kitchen sink, water heater, gas cook stove to the metal recycler and got a whopping $28!

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If I took the same thing here I would still have to pay in to cover the Freon recovery fee on the fridge. When the price of scrap was up I did that occasionally, hauling items which people had dumped to avoid "disposal fees."
As long as I was going past and had enough on to cover the Freon charge it was worth it. Personally I think there should be a 3 day waiting period, background check, and mandatory registration for any appliance or couch purchase.

 

[two_bit_score]

If I took the same thing here I would still have to pay in to cover the Freon recovery fee on the fridge. When the price of scrap was up I did that occasionally, hauling items which people had dumped to avoid "disposal fees."
As long as I was going past and had enough on to cover the Freon charge it was worth it. Personally I think there should be a 3 day waiting period, background check, and mandatory registration for any appliance or couch purchase.

I think they sell the freon and make money on it.


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[Jstpssng]

I think they sell the freon and make money on it.


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We still have to pay to have an appliance evacuated. The last time that I knew it was a $15.00 fee per fridge. A lot of towns charge disposal fees for white goods, even back when the price of scrap was high. Then they don't understand why so many refrigerators, washing machines, and couches get dumped on the side of the road... along with the tires and bags of trash which people don't want to pay to get rid of.