Subj : soda pop deposits
To : DAVE DRUM
From : JIM WELLER
Date : Sat Sep 03 2022 19:50:00
-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Ruth Haffly <=-
RH> Had to pay deposit on the cans so tried to keep consumption down.
RH> The HI one came out while we were there; cut our (my) consumption
RH> dramatically.
But the deposit is refundable if you bring the empties back to the
store. (These days of course one takes all their empties back to a
recycling centre, not the retailer.)
DD> When I was a youngster ... 2c per bottle ... I used to collect
DD> discarded soda bottles
Same. Our country road ran parallel to the highway which connected
the interprovincial bridge and the nearest village, which at the
time was in a dry township whereas in Quebec, the taverns were
plentiful, stayed open late and had off sales (they sold chilled
cases of beer to go about a buck a box more than the liquor store
sold warm ones). Drunks enjoying a cold one on the way home and
avoiding the highway would litter our ditches with empty late night
beer bottles so it was rich pickings. My buddy and I would do a
cleanup walk every spring as soon as the snow melted with potato
and flour sacks. and then beg a parent to fire up a pickup and pick
up all the bags at the end of the day. We used to do six miles in
the course of two weekends.
RH> never let us kids "scrounge"
DD> What scrounging? It was clean-up. Or enterprise.
Agreed. Scrounging is the theft of things left unattended. We
weren't going into people's back porches to steal their recyclables,
just collecting castaway stuff.
DD> The container deposit laws were designed to cut down on litter,
DD> waste, and depletion of resources. Seems to have helped.
THe NWT has deposits of various sizes on all beverages containers,
including 4 liter plastic jugs for milk. Because of the high
trucking costs getting the used containers back to where they can be
cleaned and reused or melted down our recycling centres here only
return half the deposit and the operators try to make a living
trucking crushed and shredded empties back to Alberta in bulk.
I have not come across quick cooking barley. Apparently it's
partially precooked, steamed and then dried, not unlike quick and
instant oats and rice.
Brown extra-lean ground beef and diced onion in large saucepan; drain
off any fat. Stir in defatted beef broth, sliced mushrooms and black
pepper. Bring to boil; stir in quick-cooking barley and simmer 10
minutes until barley is tender.
