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You guys have some recycling knowledge, but I know what I know. In Alaska, in the early sixties, coke bottles had a .10 return. It was Alaska and it was a small market. One coke bottle was part of a small family of bottles. My dad kept a bottle under the front seat. A swig of Sunny Brook and a swig of coke a cola. I stumbled across that market. Ten bottles returned netted a $1. That was real money. Sometimes was paid with silver dollars. Gold was less than $50 (way less) an ounce. The good old days. Food grade Al is valuable. How do I know? Because ya guys are telling me that they have radar to keep track of it.
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For those who don't understand, some states charge a deposit on empties as a means of keeping them off the highway, etc.
The deposit amount has no market relationship with the recycling value of the plastic or aluminum, which is much lower than the deposit.
So if someone brings empties in from out of state to receive deposit money for them, they are in fact defrauding the state of money from the recycling fund, which operates on the small difference between deposits collected and deposits returned.Comment
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Wait a minute. Don't we care if the other states have nice looking hiways? If there is some disparity fix it. We're all in this together.
Poor plastic. It gets no respect. I recall there was actually a movement to recycle newspaper years ago. I knew a guy who took a pickup truck load of paper to the recyclers. He got $4 or some silly figure. That was the end of that. Who reads books or newspapers anymore?
You can get oil out of shale, why can't we re-engineer plastic? I kind of know why. Molecular structure and all that. What we need is more immigrants. Maybe out of forty million one of them is an Einstein.If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.Comment
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If people can find a way to show that there's more money to be made with FEWER immigrants instead of MORE, then fewer immigrants is what you'll get. Until that happens, the border will stay porous. Kind of like credit card fraud. The card issuers don't shoot for zero fraud because there would be a lot fewer transactions that way. So they shoot for the level of fraud that is nonetheless most profitable for them.Comment
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When we were in Argentina about 10 years ago, in the early evenings, I often saw men walking down the street with enormous net bags full of aluminum cans. By enormous, I mean that the bags were about 4 ft to 5 ft in diameter and the men were struggling to carry them. As I recall, they were not crushed. It seemed that these people had created a job for themselves recycling the cans. No idea how much they earned but I would guess that it was was barely enough to live on.Comment
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