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Originally Posted by pcar-yvr
Good call on the ties.....I'll definately take your advice on that one.
Parking in downtown Vancouver, people will break into your car just to take your empty water bottle so they can collect the recycling fee!!
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Yea, that's one of the problems with recycling... lol
True Story: NPR, but humorous.
Speaking of recycling, when I was in college (in the Land before Time), my Fraternity (ATO) was looking for ways of raising it's Beer Budget for the semester.
Typically, this had consisted of
puttin' the bite on all the Brothers, and invariably, the biggest drinkers were always the smallest contributors - imagine that!
I was bagging groceries part-time at a large Supermarket and one day overheard the Store Manager say that the deposit on returnable Pop bottles was being raised in 2 weeks from $0.05 to $0.10 (I told you it was in the Land before Time).
Anyway, we managed to shakedown the membership to come up with $1,600, and spent the next 2 weeks invading every grocery store in the city to buy empty Pop bottles for a nickel apiece for a
supposed Cub Scout project (that was our cover story - who doesn't want to assist the Cub Scouts?).
We ended up with 32,000 empty Pop bottles. We had em stacked in the halls, the Living Room, and 4 out of the 7 Shower Stalls. I mean, they were
everywhere - you can't imagine the space required to store 32,000 pop bottles.
When the switchover took place, just as predicted, we returned all 32,000 Pop bottles for $0.10@ yielding a $1,600 profit after paying back all the initial
investors - a first. Turned out to be the largest semester Beer Fund in that Chapter's history. Not to mention raising me to legendary status amongst the campus' Greeks.
Who knew? I discovered insider trading long before Ivan Boesky
BTW, I'm in the double-sided foam tape camp.