Moultonborough Trash Inspection

[Rattlesnake Guy]

Originally Posted by tis

Years ago, you returned bottles in this state. Some people used to walk up and down the road looking for bottles and returning them for the money.

I was one of those kids walking the streets in the 60s picking up bottles for $0.02 each. Two cents was worth the effort to this kid. That was the free market at work. Not a government program with layers of bureaucrats making a living out of it with hopes of poor redemption to make profits. The good old days. Coke paid the retailer money to get the bottle back so they could wash it and use it again and again.

[Seeker]

Originally Posted by Rattlesnake Guy

I was one of those kids walking the streets in the 60s picking up bottles for $0.02 each. Two cents was worth the effort to this kid. That was the free market at work. Not a government program with layers of bureaucrats making a living out of it with hopes of poor redemption to make profits. The good old days. Coke paid the retailer money to get the bottle back so they could wash it and use it again and again.

I was selling Coke and Cott back in the early fifties. Coke was .035 per 6 oz bottle plus the .02 deposit. I was selling to golfers for .15 and I got 98% of the bottles back to return to Coke. Not a bad profit margin.

[CrawfordCentury]

So we've gone from rubbish inspections to the institution of a new state government program. I see how this works.

Guess I'll just drink more beer and wine to circumvent this new surcharge. Now all we'll need is a government-managed health care system to treat the alcohol-related illness I'll encounter a few years down the road.

[RI Swamp Yankee]

Originally Posted by Rattlesnake Guy

I was one of those kids walking the streets in the 60s picking up bottles for $0.02 each. Two cents was worth the effort to this kid. .....

My cousin in NH did that too. The bottles earned him a snow shovel ... which earned him a snowblower ... which earned him a pickup truck with snowplow.