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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 1566187" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>Scroll back up this page and look at the pile of tires. </p><p></p><p>If you charge me a $1 deposit on a plastic coke bottle, I'll save them and return them. But then what are businesses going to do with them ? They are not actually being recycled. You add the burden and expense of personnel, transport, storage, and the consumers wind up having to pay extra to cover it. </p><p></p><p>When I was a kid cokes came in glass bottles and they reused them. Huge difference. Now everyone buys thru Amazon and there is tons of packaging materials. Groceries come in safety sealed packaging. Packaging, packaging. My trash cans fill up constantly. </p><p></p><p>Aaron I don't have a solution to the problem. But deposits are just going to cost us all more unless we go back to the old ways. </p><p></p><p>I do indeed dumpster dive at TSC. I get all their discarded tube steel from China lawnmower packaging, those green frames that dog kennels come in etc. I have built 11 chicken houses that are framed out of green tube steel crates for dog kennels. I have built truck bed crates to hall show lambs. I have sold a lot of items built out of junk. Trampoline frames make great hay cradles. I build my own chicken feeders out of flat bar and 5 gallon buckets with Gammo screw on lids. I built a stained glass storage bin on wheels out of junk frame covers that is huge. My wife has all her stained glass supplies in it. Thousands of pieces of glass in her studio. All built from junk iron thrown out. There's more I've built but you get the picture. I think we could be more innovative with discarded items.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 1566187, member: 3162"] Scroll back up this page and look at the pile of tires. If you charge me a $1 deposit on a plastic coke bottle, I'll save them and return them. But then what are businesses going to do with them ? They are not actually being recycled. You add the burden and expense of personnel, transport, storage, and the consumers wind up having to pay extra to cover it. When I was a kid cokes came in glass bottles and they reused them. Huge difference. Now everyone buys thru Amazon and there is tons of packaging materials. Groceries come in safety sealed packaging. Packaging, packaging. My trash cans fill up constantly. Aaron I don't have a solution to the problem. But deposits are just going to cost us all more unless we go back to the old ways. I do indeed dumpster dive at TSC. I get all their discarded tube steel from China lawnmower packaging, those green frames that dog kennels come in etc. I have built 11 chicken houses that are framed out of green tube steel crates for dog kennels. I have built truck bed crates to hall show lambs. I have sold a lot of items built out of junk. Trampoline frames make great hay cradles. I build my own chicken feeders out of flat bar and 5 gallon buckets with Gammo screw on lids. I built a stained glass storage bin on wheels out of junk frame covers that is huge. My wife has all her stained glass supplies in it. Thousands of pieces of glass in her studio. All built from junk iron thrown out. There's more I've built but you get the picture. I think we could be more innovative with discarded items. [/QUOTE]
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