I Remember when I was a Boy

[threedogs]

We carry on about recycling today, the bottle-o (licensed marine collector) would come and collect your empty beer bottles & leave a few cents on the back step, a pleasant surprise when you got home from school. We would get 3 cents back on a soft drink bottle at the deli (that is what we called milk bars here in WA). The milko collected your empty milk bottles, his horse new the route.
Graham

yep in Boys Club we had Bottle drives all the time.
and Penny drives where you lined up all your copper
coins end to end.
Nup can't do that anymore
Also had woodchop days where we chopped wood for the elderly for the colder months
How we never lost an arm or leg was beyound me