EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[hippiestink]

Was anyone else taught to pop the old can tabs off & plop them inside the drink, so you wouldn't step on them later?

I'm too young to have learned that lol. But my paternal grandfather used to do that all the time and I never knew why so thanks for enlightening me!

 

[room onthebroom]

I don't know about Mexico but here in Europe we have stores that buy back the bottles for companies to wash and reuse. Might be the same there too.

We have programs for that here too, but some people seem to think the bottles/cans magically walk themselves from the trashcan into the recycling center.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I don't know about Mexico but here in Europe we have stores that buy back the bottles for companies to wash and reuse. Might be the same there too.

WAS when I was a kid. Those bottles where reused a zillion times. I would search for them to cash them in for spending money.
In America now.. THROW EVERYTHING IN THE LAND FILL AND MAKE MORE..

 

[room onthebroom]

Connie, I'm waiting for a Jimmy Buffet song to go with my pop top comment...

 

[hippiestink]

We have programs for that here too, but some people seem to think the bottles/cans magically walk themselves from the trashcan into the recycling center.

Only downside is that here it's not a pickup service, you have to drive it to a store that does the collection. But hey, since we have a business we go through a lot of glass beer bottles and stuff and get a tidy sum when we do our returns!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Was anyone else taught to pop the old can tabs off & plop them inside the drink, so you wouldn't step on them later?

Had a neighbor choke on one. almost died. I collected them and made chains.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Connie, I'm waiting for a Jimmy Buffet song to go with my pop top comment...

Sitting on my porch swing, strumming my 6 string, smell them shrimp beginning to boil...

 

[hippiestink]

WAS when I was a kid. Those bottles where reused a zillion times. I would search for them to cash them in for spending money.
In America now.. THROW EVERYTHING IN THE LAND FILL AND MAKE MORE..

My maternal grandfather has city pickup for recyclables and trash, so he has two cans on the curb on trash day. He also has a jungle of a garden so most plant-based food waste goes into his compost heap. My parents get their paper recycled and since schools in their area take paper and plastic recycling they'll sometimes save the plastics for that.

Meanwhile I give a lot of the food waste to my birds or my dogs and dump unuseable plastics in our company recycling container. If it's still good I'll sometimes save it to reuse for another dish or drink. It's second nature for lots of city folk in Belgium to know which recycling goes in which public trash container.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Only downside is that here it's not a pickup service, you have to drive it to a store that does the collection. But hey, since we have a business we go through a lot of glass beer bottles and stuff and get a tidy sum when we do our returns!

If I remember correctly.. 12 was 5 cent deposit, 16 oz was 10 cent deposit, a quart was 15 maybe? Soda glass bottle wise. THAT GLASS WAS THICK AND HEAVY! Not like today's disposable beer bottles.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Rain stopped ... gotta go..