That blows that idea

[solo]

While out walking the dog, I've noticed the vast amounts of beer and drinks cans discarded by the local teenie alkies. It struck me that if I could be bothered to collect them up that there may be some money to be made. Current price for loose and flattened cans is £ 850.00 per tonne. Not too bad. Further research revealed that there is approx 40,000 to 50,000 cans per tonne. I can just picture the wife's face if she caught me washing that many cans out at the sink. Nah...don't think so.

 

[Shytalkz]

Ooh, 2p a tin, time for a career change

 

[tim west]

like the old days as kids finding beer bottles and taking them back for the deposit.

 

[Space cat]

like the old days as kids finding beer bottles and taking them back for the deposit.

In my old days the deposit was worth something. You got 3d back on a lemonade bottle, glass of course. A Mars bar cost 5d at the time so that deposit was worth 30p in today's money. Ten years later I was taking empty brown ale bottles back at 2p each; worth about 20p today.

It was some time during the seventies that non-retunable glass bottles gradually took over.

 

[joe-90]

When I was dossing in Darwin I actually made a living by collecting coke bottles and taking stale bread out of the bakery skip heading for the pig farm. Had no money whatsoever, slept in a cave on the beach. That's where I had my 17th birthday. Those were the days.

 

[Shytalkz]

Did the cave have rising damp?

 

[joe-90]

It had a rising tide one night that had be back in the last 6 foot of the cave during a tropical storm. Why didn't it occur to me that the cave had been formed by wave action?

 

[Shytalkz]

Those things don't occur to one at 17...unless you're Softus of course .

 

[Space cat]

It had a rising tide one night that had be back in the last 6 foot of the cave during a tropical storm.

This reminds me of the tale of a Scottish rabbit who left home because he'd heard that the streets of London were paved with carrots. Three times he burrowed into the banks of the Thames and three times he was flooded out by the rising tide - so he went home. The other rabbits were most surprized to see him:

"Hey Jimmy. Whad are ye doin back ere?"

"Ach! They dinna ha dry burrows doon there de they!"

Time to go ---

 

[empip]

like the old days as kids finding beer bottles and taking them back for the deposit.

Such stuff caused our local pub to have one of the first chainlink fences around the normally open yard... Now that really was bottle recycling !!

 

[sooey]

It had a rising tide one night that had be back in the last 6 foot of the cave during a tropical storm. Why didn't it occur to me that the cave had been formed by wave action?

I thought they were all made by smugglers and pirates.

 

[Stivino]

"Ach! They dinna ha dry burrows doon there de they!"

Time to go ---

We've not got Dryborough's up here now either.