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[SAMIAM]

Originally Posted by tis

When we were kids we found all kinds of beer bottles and cans from the bob houses.

We still do....every spring there is a trail of discarded cans and bottles for a mile on our road. From the area where they park to the main road. Each spring a few of us walk the road with baggies and a truck .
FYI....Ice fisherman favorites are Bud, Bud Lite and Hard Iced Tea....usually fill up 6 to 8 bags

[tis]

Originally Posted by SAMIAM

We still do....every spring there is a trail of discarded cans and bottles for a mile on our road. From the area where they park to the main road. Each spring a few of us walk the road with baggies and a truck .
FYI....Ice fisherman favorites are Bud, Bud Lite and Hard Iced Tea....usually fill up 6 to 8 bags

Not to mention IN the lake. We often cut our feet on old rusted out cans and broken bottles.

[swnoel]

Originally Posted by SAMIAM

We still do....every spring there is a trail of discarded cans and bottles for a mile on our road. From the area where they park to the main road. Each spring a few of us walk the road with baggies and a truck .
FYI....Ice fisherman favorites are Bud, Bud Lite and Hard Iced Tea....usually fill up 6 to 8 bags

How about the ones like me that don't drink? I don't appreciate being pooled in with pigs... by the way is it ice fishermen that drive the roads throwing trash out into the ditches?

[TheTimeTraveler]

Maybe an easy solution would be to institute a deposit on cans and bottles like is done in several bordering states.

Suddenly those bottles and cans may disappear on their own and won't be left around anymore.....

[joey2665]

Originally Posted by TheTimeTraveler

Maybe an easy solution would be to institute a deposit on cans and bottles like is done in several bordering states.

Suddenly those bottles and cans may disappear on their own and won't be left around anymore.....

Honestly do not think a deposit will help. If people are arrogant enough to leave their garbage they could care less about 5 cents

[upthesaukee]

Originally Posted by joey2665

Honestly do not think a deposit will help. If people are arrogant enough to leave their garbage they could care less about 5 cents

Growing up in MA more than 50 yrs ago, we picked bottles up and turned them in to get enough money for a soda and a candy bar.

Dave

[TiltonBB]

Originally Posted by upthesaukee

Growing up in MA more than 50 yrs ago, we picked bottles up and turned them in to get enough money for a soda and a candy bar.

Dave

I don't think so. The deposit law passed in Massachusetts 37 years ago.

"The Massachusetts Bottle Bill (Mass. Bills H.2943/S.1588) is a container-deposit legislation dealing with recycling in the United States that originally passed in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 1982 as the Beverage Container Recovery Law."

[fatlazyless]

Back in the early 1960's, I can remember taking green quart glass bottles of Canada Dry ginger ale back to the store, for a refund of 2-cents or 5-cents, depending on size, in the Boston and Nantasket areas. It was not required by Massachusetts law, and was just done that way for years and years and years with glass bottles, placed into all wood, bottle racks, and sent back to the bottler for cleaning and refill with a new bottle cap.

People would save their empty glass soda bottles for a month or two before taking them all back to the store. For some unknown reason, there were no returnable, hard liquor glass bottles? Maybe glass beer bottles were returnable?

Those were the days of Cub Scout bottle drives, where the local Cub Scout packs would hit the neighborhood, go knock on doors, and ask for empty glass soda and beer(?) bottles. People would rinse them out, otherwise they attracted bugs while sitting in the back porch, or somewhere.

[P-3 Guy]

Originally Posted by TiltonBB

I don't think so. The deposit law passed in Massachusetts 37 years ago.

"The Massachusetts Bottle Bill (Mass. Bills H.2943/S.1588) is a container-deposit legislation dealing with recycling in the United States that originally passed in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 1982 as the Beverage Container Recovery Law."

Before the law was passed in Massachusetts, some bottling companies ran their own redemption program. So, I think what upthesaukee is describing was certainly possible in Massachusetts more than 50 years ago.

[Top-Water]

Originally Posted by TMI Guy

Before the law was passed in Massachusetts, some bottling companies ran their own redemption program. So, I think what upthesaukee is describing was certainly possible in Massachusetts more than 50 years ago.

Correct

If ?? I am remembering correctly you could get .02 cents per glass bottle in the mid 1960's before they passed the bottle & can redemption laws we are familiar with today.

I only seem to remember it being available for the old tall green coke bottles.


Worth $55.00 now
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or ....... $2,400.00 for 200 bottles
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[wobbelbill]

Originally Posted by TiltonBB

I don't think so. The deposit law passed in Massachusetts 37 years ago.

"The Massachusetts Bottle Bill (Mass. Bills H.2943/S.1588) is a container-deposit legislation dealing with recycling in the United States that originally passed in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 1982 as the Beverage Container Recovery Law."

Growing up in 50s and 60s -long before the "bottle bill" it certainly was possible-and if you lived near a grocery store and package store you could return almost every type bottle and pocket the (what seemed at the time) the wealth!

In last decade seems that many of bottle return companies have closed making it tougher for Massdachusettsians to turn in recyclables; I have heard the company "take" was a penny a unit to handle, and it was too little

[Biggd]

Originally Posted by wobbelbill

Growing up in 50s and 60s -long before the "bottle bill" it certainly was possible-and if you lived near a grocery store and package store you could return almost every type bottle and pocket the (what seemed at the time) the wealth!

In last decade seems that many of bottle return companies have closed making it tougher for Massdachusettsians to turn in recyclables; I have heard the company "take" was a penny a unit to handle, and it was too little

I had one next door to my shop in Woburn but when their lease expired it closed as the owner remodeled the building and jacked up the rent.

But honestly I'm glad it's gone because it was patronized mostly by drunks. They would be there early in the morning turning in their empties then head over to the package store and wait for it to open at 10am.

The air is a little fresher too now that the smell of stale beer from the empties is gone.

[webmaster]

Originally Posted by TiltonBB

I don't think so. The deposit law passed in Massachusetts 37 years ago.

"The Massachusetts Bottle Bill (Mass. Bills H.2943/S.1588) is a container-deposit legislation dealing with recycling in the United States that originally passed in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 1982 as the Beverage Container Recovery Law."

There were definitely deposits on many glass bottles in Massachusetts before the Bottle Bill. When I was about 12 years old we used to go door to door with our wagons, offer to take their bottles and we'd take a load to A&P. That money paid for laps at the Slot Car (remember those?) track. That was about 53 years ago.

[Orion]

Originally Posted by webmaster

There were definitely deposits on many glass bottles in Massachusetts before the Bottle Bill. When I was about 12 years old we used to go door to door with our wagons, offer to take their bottles and we'd take a load to A&P. That money paid for laps at the Slot Car (remember those?) track. That was about 53 years ago.

We must be close in age because I did the same things! And I used to hitchhike to the local slot car track.

[webmaster]

Originally Posted by Orion

We must be close in age because I did the same things! And I used to hitchhike to the local slot car track.

Slot car racing was BIG back then. For anyone too young to remember here's some video:

[garysanfran]

Originally Posted by webmaster

Slot car racing was BIG back then. For anyone too young to remember here's some video:

And everyone got a trophy!!!

Not a loser in the bunch and lots of mustaches...

What fun!

[Orion]

Originally Posted by garysanfran

And everyone got a trophy!!!

Not a loser in the bunch and lots of mustaches...

What fun!

Nope, back then you actually had to EARN a trophy! What a concept.

[Biggd]

Originally Posted by webmaster

Slot car racing was BIG back then. For anyone too young to remember here's some video:

As was hitch hiking. When was the last time you saw a hitch hiker and why would anyone pick one up today?

[joey2665]

Originally Posted by upthesaukee

Growing up in MA more than 50 yrs ago, we picked bottles up and turned them in to get enough money for a soda and a candy bar.



Dave

Same here but obviously the deposit charge has not increased with inflation.


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[fatlazyless]

In Maine, it's 15-cents for wine and beer containers, and Maine is talk'n about rais'n soda containers from 5 to 15-cents, too.

[Top-Water]

Originally Posted by joey2665

Honestly do not think a deposit will help. If people are arrogant enough to leave their garbage they could care less about 5 cents

but sadly I love it when I see a car going down the road with a "SAVE THE WHALES" bumper sticker and the Mac Donald's bag being tossed out the window at the same time, genuinely confused about that one.

[Outdoorsman]

Originally Posted by Top-Water

but sadly I love it when I see a car going down the road with a "SAVE THE WHALES" bumper sticker and the Mac Donald's bag being tossed out the window at the same time, genuinely confused about that one.

How often have you actually seen that?

If you say anything more than zero I am calling BS

[Top-Water]

Originally Posted by Outdoorsman

How often have you actually seen that?

If you say anything less than zero I am calling BS

Excuse me .......sorry .......... I made a mistake, I should have stated it's a save the planet bumper sticker

[MAXUM]

Originally Posted by Top-Water

Excuse me .......sorry .......... I made a mistake, I should have stated it's a save the planet bumper sticker

It's OK I'm sure they took the plastic straw out of the bag before tossing so it was fully biodegradable!