[ansel12]

The response to anti-littering campaigns was something unique.

It seemed that the instant it was pointed out to us not to throw trash out the window, we suddenly saw it clearly and stopped, all of a sudden we could look at the trash on the side of the road and realize that we should not throw out our burger wrappers and car garbage, it was an instance of the pre-immigration Americans having something brought to their attention and us collectively going gee, you are right, we just hadn’t thought of it.

Something that only oldtimers will remember is how broken glass was everywhere, at the lake, at the river swimming place, just about anywhere men could break their beer bottles or shoot them on the edge of the water or camp-ground, or whatever, and the kids would routinely get hellish glass cuts on their bare feet during family outings, nasty, deep, stitches required cuts.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

There is now talk of bringing back glass bottles, but adding a return for deposit fee because glass bottles can be cleaned and "recycled" efficiently just by reusing them as we did milk bottles in the past.

I wonder if the desire to get back the deposit fee will outweigh the mischievous delight from shooting or breaking a bottle.