Comments on: 07/26/2012 – Dirty Job

By: riding.in.twilight@gmail.com

riding.in.twilight@gmail.com — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:26:22 +0000

Thank you

By: zbicyclist

zbicyclist — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:13:44 +0000

Do we have a contintuity error here? He’s late coming to work — because he took a new route home?

By: Widsith

Widsith — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:27:08 +0000

I remember the first Earth Day back in 1970. My fellow students and I (I was a high school freshman) signed a pledge not to litter, and I’ve kept that pledge all these years. In fact, in college I banned a classmate from borrowing my car after I saw her throwing trash out the window while she was driving it one afternoon.

By: jon4t2

jon4t2 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:40:42 +0000

@Bicycle Bill: Store specific returns? That’s a good one. Sounds like someone bought off the lawmakers and rewrote the legislation so that stores can keep more of the deposit money.

By: Tencon

Tencon — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:00:27 +0000

In Coventry, UK during the 1950s I remember a guy coming around in a lorry selling glass pop bottles that had a stopper with a rubber seal.
We could present the empty(s) for a few pence back (The deposit I guess)
We used to play the game in summer looking everywhere for used bottles to make an addition to our pocket money.
Not much money but it was fun, walking and talking etc. If the bottles were really dirty, we used to wash them in the local Brook which slightly improved the value as returns were supposed to be washed…

By: BHNelson

BHNelson — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:20:37 +0000

True enough, but if a few more people left the trash in their car/pocket and emptied it at home, we would also have no problems. Personal responsibiilty goes a long was towards a better society. When it is clear that a person feels no ownership for his/her surrpoundings (because I see the person littering in front of me), I take advantage of the opportunity to exert my own: “STOP LITTERING ON MY PLANET!”

By: cannondalekid

cannondalekid — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:54:46 +0000

Clever!

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:36:31 +0000

It was a big help at first, at least in Iowa, where the deposit is 5¢ on beer and pop containers. Problem now is that there are fewer official redemption centers where you can return them; they have to be taken back to the store where they were sold. So if you are picking up cans along the side of the road and you find a container that is not from a major name brand (such as Shasta or Faygo) or a private-label brand (like Hy-Vee), you have to try to figure out where it came from and take it back there.

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:27:23 +0000

The darkroom in our college photo classroom used to have a sign on it: DARKROOM — KEEP DOOR CLOSED.
Underneath it someone else (no, not me) had written in Sharpie …. “or else all the dark will get out”

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:24:42 +0000

Great idea, 2wheeler, but this could also be seen as being an enabler to the litterbugs. So long as the trash “disappears”, these self-centered arschlochs will keep tossing stuff out the window. After all, they reason, someone eventually picks it up. It’s just like flushing a toilet — out of sight, out of mind. But does anyone ever take a couple minutes to consider what happens after the bowl refills?