Subj : soda pop
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Sep 06 2022 12:24:14
Hi Dave,
DD> What scrounging? It was clean-up. Or enterprise. Not much different
DD> from mowing lawns or delivering newspapers.
RH> Scrounging as in looking among weeds on the roadside. Back before
RH> littering wasn't as much a "crime" as it is now and people blithely
RH> discarded trash from moving vehicles.
DD> Your scrounging is my clean-up. Bv)=
Clean up would entail removal of all waste--foam drink cup, burger
boxes, and other such trash. Scrounging is digging thru all that mess to
get to the recyclable bottle. (G)
DD> The real "scrouger" is the guy/gal who picks through the discards at
DD> the city dump/public landfill for resellable items.
Or the roadside trash.
DD> waste, and depletion of resources. Seems to have helped. Bv)=
RH> Depends; some people recycle their containers faithfully; others don't
RH> care that much about getting their money back. In HI, after we stopped
RH> buying a lot of recyclable containers, we just washed them out and
RH> tossed them into a grocery bag. Our church youth group had a fundraiser
RH> for camp the summer before we left, asked for recyclables so we donated
RH> the bag and, IIRC, some $$ above what the cans would have brought.
DD> I like to think I'm relatively thrifty. I've never had enough ca$h-on-
DD> hand that I ever felt comfortable throwing away assets that could be
DD> turned into money thence into food/shelter.
We try not to either. That's why places like ReStore or Goodwill get
donations every so often.
