Can and bottle collectors, thanks for the mess!

Subject: Not only cans...

Some moron dumped 20 sq ft of used undercarpet on my stoop on Saturday night...

btw, this is a good idea. probably a little pricey, i guess you could just use your foot to compress plastic bottles. it would be great if it did glass as well--but why aren't there more solutions for organizing home recycling? It's a huge pain to store bottles, newspapers, bags, etc in a small apt before recycling.

http://store.ecopod.org/servlet/Detail?no=3

pitu wrote: I haven't seen people digging for scrap metal/glass/plastic in this country
:shock:

Actually, I have seen that, but only here in NYC. Recently I saw a man disemboweling an old air conditioner that someone had discarded. When I walked past, he had punched a hole in it and was letting the freon gas escape. Weird sight - it made a loud hissing noise, and looked kind of like steam. :shock:

cythren wrote: [quote=pitu]I haven't seen people digging for scrap metal/glass/plastic in this country
:shock:

Actually, I have seen that, but only here in NYC. Recently I saw a man disemboweling an old air conditioner that someone had discarded. When I walked past, he had punched a hole in it and was letting the freon gas escape. Weird sight - it made a loud hissing noise, and looked kind of like steam. :shock:

I don't think scrap metal was a big one here in NYC ever, although I do remember stories of folks stealing copper wiring out of the subways back in the 70's. However, I think that Baltimore had a big problem with people stealing streetlights a few years ago

scrap metal here is HUGE. there's that place down on hamilton you can see from the F.

my mother and i always lament that instead of leaving brooklyn in the 40s for greener pastures, my grandparents should have stayed here and started a scrap metal business. we'd be gazillionaires

There seem to be a lot of people who collect scrap metal. I see them going down my street with shopping carts piled with the stuff -- I guess they are taking it to the place BP mentioned. I left an old air conditioner outside last summer and it was quickly disembowelled.

pitu wrote: I haven't seen people digging for scrap metal/glass/plastic in this country
:shock:

I worked with a guy once who was a bottle collector. He and his father would go to homes doing renovations or yard work and ask if they could dig. He told me 99% of the times they found something. He explained to me that many people used to throw the garbage in the yard or down the outhouse holes. Then when the City started picking up garbage most of these people just filled in these outhouse holes.
When my mother was selling the house he asked if he could dig in our yard and my mother said yes. He found 3 plain bottles, some sort of medical tonic, a beer bottle and a childs toy in the shape of a horse. They used to sell these bottles at the street fairs and they always had a stand at the Atlantic Antic. Last time I saw the son he said that they pretty much sell their stuff at shows and on e-bay.

I HATE garbage! It's Gross! :x

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