[Behind Liberal Lines]

Where to begin?

Well, first there's the fact I almost fell off my chair with laughter when I read that they raised (drum roll) thirty whole dollars with their campaign. Ooohhh....wow.

Then there's the fact that, in NYS, every bottle of Pepsi has a five cent deposit on it. If you don't return the bottle to the store, Pepsi gets to keep the five cents. So every bottle these ninnies mailed put five cents in Pepsi's pocket!

Gee, if these educated idiots think that giving somebody money is an effective form of protest, then will they please protest me?

Just another example of the liberal idiocy here in "the City of Evil."

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil bump

[general_re]

Wow, that is impressive - eighty sponsors and they came up with a whopping $30? Remind me not to open a pizza joint delivering to campus - these kids are obviously crappy tippers.

So, with $30, that means they can mail about 50 bottles back to Pepsi, at $0.57 postage each. That'll get their attention, for sure.

On the other had, I wonder if these groups have any sort of oversight? $30 is enough for a pizza, a sixpack, and a small bag of college "herb-garden" stock. Be funny if it was a scam.

"Hey, how'd that Pepsi thing work out? Are they gonna start recycling, or what?"

"Workin' fine, duuuude. Got 'em on the run - just need a few more bucks...(burp)"

[ben richards]

These guys have too much time on their hands.

[ben richards]

Slow news day at Cornell?

[Great_Dame]

Wow $30.00. They could have raised more money turning in bottles for the deposit.

Here are some interesting little facts for our Ivey League friends...Pepsi doesn't manufacture the bottles themselves. Plastics companies manufacture them. In fact you need 3 separate suppliers just to make one bottle. There is the bottle itself, then there is the cap and finally you have the label. All different types of plactics with specialized machinery and processing. All of the plastics manufacturers have quality checks and when a plastic part does not pass the quality tests it goes back to "regrind". Parts are reground and re-introduced into the manufacturing process. Some companies get away with calling this "pre-consumer waste". I'm pretty sure that is where coke gets its 10% number from.

(No i'm not a plastic manufacturer, I work with a lot of them and have seen the "regrind" process up close and personal.)

Maybe all plastic companies should put the percent of "pre-consumer waste" content on their products. Maybe that would keep the wackos off their backs.