[CFrance]

Actually, Pittsburgh cleaned up its pollution problem well before the steel industry abandoned the US.

[Cisco Kid]

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[Vernster]

Why doesn't Fl. have a deposit on all bottles and cans ? It would seem that the state could use the money and kids and homeless could get xtra cash and help with the litter problem.

I do remember doing and using all things mentioned in " the being green" article. I even used an ink well in school before I obtained a refillable ink pen. But, I always remember returning bottles and cans for 2 cents a piece while growing up in Massachusetts.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by Vernster

Why doesn't Fl. have a deposit on all bottles and cans ? It would seem that the state could use the money and kids and homeless could get xtra cash and help with the litter problem.

I do remember doing and using all things mentioned in " the being green" article. I even used an ink well in school before I obtained a refillable ink pen. But, I always remember returning bottles and cans for 2 cents a piece while growing up in Massachusetts.

In other states we've lived in, it was the grocer lobbies who kept the bottle deposit program at bay. They didn't want to provide the time, space, logistics & $ to have to run the program.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by mixsonci

I never refilled pens with ink from a bottle, but I certainly washed diapers. Pampers were just starting to make their way onto the market and they were frowned upon and the general consensus was that only lazy people would use them on their babies. My son is now 43 and I washed his cloth diapers (in a washing machine) and dried them on the line and I took pride in that, they spelled so fresh and clean. But I also have no problem with people using pampers today, it's technology and progress and you have to have that to move forward and in today's hurried society people don't have time to do things the old fashioned way and shouldn't have to. We've all had our modern conveniences and wave of the future technology during our prime time, even the tiny screen TV was a big deal at one point in time.

I washed diapers too, in '73 and again in '78. Actually, the paper diapers back then (we used on vacation) ate holes in my boys' bums. Had to paint them with Desitin. I didn't like the crinkly sound of them walking around in paper diapers either, and especially didn't like the landfill issue.

I wonder... are paper diapers any more biodegradable now? My niece the sustainable architect won't buy much plastic baby gear items due to "off-gassing," yet she is using paper diapers. I don't understand it. She works, but she could have diaper service. I did that the first year for both babies. The cost was roughly the same as Pampers. After the first year
I washed them myself.