It was amazing being a kid back then because you could earn some decent coin returning bottles

teiferer 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nowadays the homeless or other less-than-living-wage earners do that for us. You can see them everywhere in cities all over north america and europe if you pay attention.

	▲	pjmlp an hour ago \| parent [-]
		As European that is not spread everywhere, while you can get some money back in Germany and Greece, there is none to be had in Portugal. In Germany, it is such a big issue with people not having other source of income, that there is a culture where and how to leave the bottles around so that they are easier to collect.

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foolfoolz 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

there are still people today who roam neighborhoods collecting bottles and cans

	▲	tombert 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My neighborhood recycling occurs on Thursday night, so I take all my empty cans and put them in a clear plastic back and put them next to my trash. I do not think that the garbage people have ever gotten the cans; there is always a homeless person that will walk around and pick up the bag of empties, presumably to redeem them somewhere. I don’t have an issue with it, if they want to do what I am too lazy to do, more power to them.