I’m so old I remember…

[Lord Pmann]

How is @Mr_bogey not every other post in this thread?

 

[Strixaluco]

How the only things that were recycled separately were glass bottles (which were returned to be reused), paper, and dangerous waste. (Nowadays the amount of waste bins has doubled.)

 

[One_ping_only]

I'm so old I remember having to write down the 4 digit number on my parents VCR so I can rewind the porno tape exactly back where it was left off to not draw suspicion haaaaa!!

 

[PersonalFavors]

How the only things that were recycled separately were glass bottles (which were returned to be reused), paper, and dangerous waste. (Nowadays the amount of waste bins has doubled.)

Here in Fairfax Virginia they no longer accept glass in the recycle bin. They want you to put it in the trash.
Here in Fairfax Virginia they charge 5 cents per plastic grocery bag at the store to eliminate the bags from filling up the landfill. Does glass ever break down on its own?

 

[Crownvic]

And flip flops were only worn by “Beatniks.”

Cool
Daddy..

 

[Strixaluco]

Here in Fairfax Virginia they no longer accept glass in the recycle bin. They want you to put it in the trash.
Here in Fairfax Virginia they charge 5 cents per plastic grocery bag at the store to eliminate the bags from filling up the landfill. Does glass ever break down on its own?

Here there's no general "recycle bin". Every waste fraction has their own: paper, cardboard, metal, glass jars, plastic, dangerous waste, biological waste (though meds and batteries have still even their own return places). Oh and some places even take textile waste.
Most bottles and cans are returned to grocery store and you get the deposit fee back.

I guess glass would melt in the same conditions as magma. Ordinarily on nature, not really - though it's not chemically or biologically dangerous any more than sand or stone is, if it isn't sharp. But not all glass is the same. Drinking glasses and window glasses have different melting point and should not be put together with glass jars, or it will throw havoc on the recycling.

 

[PersonalFavors]

Here there's no general "recycle bin". Every waste fraction has their own: paper, cardboard, metal, glass jars, plastic, dangerous waste, biological waste (though meds and batteries have still even their own return places). Oh and some places even take textile waste.
Most bottles and cans are returned to grocery store and you get the deposit fee back.

I guess glass would melt in the same conditions as magma. Ordinarily on nature, not really - though it's not chemically or biologically dangerous any more than sand or stone is, if it isn't sharp. But not all glass is the same. Drinking glasses and window glasses have different melting point and should not be put together with glass jars, or it will throw havoc on the recycling.

To me recycling is conservation. Here there is no shortage of climate fanatics including the politicians making these absurd laws in the name of conservation.

 

[Strixaluco]

To me recycling is conservation. Here there is no shortage of climate fanatics including the politicians making these absurd laws in the name of conservation.

To me recycling is a given, to not recycle anything that can be recycled reasonably would be idiotism.

But at times people that cannot follow instructions mess the whole thing up. Like window glass in the glass recycling, destroying the whole damn batch.

 

[Noor]

People’s express

 

[~Elizabeth~]

Here in Fairfax Virginia they no longer accept glass in the recycle bin. They want you to put it in the trash.

Glass can take up to 1 to 2 million years to decompose, I've read. That is why I find it ridiculous that they would want people to put it in the trash. What the hell is wrong with them?!

It's not like that here in my area of Virginia, thankfully.

 

[Crownvic]

Remember three local tv stations...long before cable ...had to get up and manually change the channel...

 

[PersonalFavors]

Glass can take up to 1 to 2 million years to decompose, I've read. That is why I find it ridiculous that they would want people to put it in the trash. What the hell is wrong with them?!

It's not like that here in my area of Virginia, thankfully.

The only response I got was it costs too much. Shortly after is when they forced the grocery store to tax for the plastic bags. Any green or climate tax is a money grab.

 

[PicassosPleasure]

Getting our first color television set. (1960s)

 

[PersonalFavors]

Getting our first color television set. (1960s)

1976 for me. And we trash picked it from a neighbor and fellow employee of my father's. He wanted his TV back after we replaced the tube that was allowing the screen to jump. I was 12 and the idiot box wasn't something that was encouraged growing up.

 

[PicassosPleasure]

1976 for me. And we trash picked it from a neighbor and fellow employee of my father's. He wanted his TV back after we replaced the tube that was allowing the screen to jump. I was 12 and the idiot box wasn't something that was encouraged growing up.

I remember riding my bike to the store to test or get replacement vacuum tubes.

 

[PersonalFavors]

Remember three local tv stations...long before cable ...had to get up and manually change the channel...

WTBS, WRET and their transformation into TBS when it changed to requiring cable to have it.
Visiting family in New Jersey and seeing "cable TV" the first time.
Subsequently I remember high speed internet when it was new. Not many had it because it cost so much. An engineer providing bundled T1 access at work I paid up because I enjoyed not waiting. Way lots more sexual freedom on the net when it was new. I suspect there were many sites that were loved and heavily used that did not turn profit. Like newgroups with discussion boards like Lit! Alt.Binaries.redhead.closeup comes to mind too. haha

 

[PersonalFavors]

Remember three local tv stations...long before cable ...had to get up and manually change the channel...

And when you went to your grandparents house and the remote would kind of jingle when you pushed the button. That first remote had 4 buttons. On/off/channel up /channel down. One of the first times I heard my dad's mother give him the whatfor was right after I heard him say, "while you are up can you get me a beer and turn the TV up?"

 

[PicassosPleasure]

Are you kidding, I was the remote! "Son, go change the channel and we'll see what else is on "

 

[PersonalFavors]

I dig up hand blown bottles from the 1800s in old trash pits and outhouses. It’s actually a popular hobby that began to gain popularity in the 1960s and 70s. There are antique bottle shows and auctions all over the country. Some pieces sell for many thousands of dollars. They’re often stained from acids in the soil that permeate the surface of the glass.

I have an incomplete set of green depression glass and a few pieces of pink. I wish I knew a good way to sell them. I am not sure I will ever have the space to have them out where I could use them. I use the pitcher and the orange juicer. But other serving dishes plates cups and saucers are safely boxed up for someday or sale.

 

[PicassosPleasure]

I dig up hand blown bottles from the 1800s in old trash pits and outhouses. It’s actually a popular hobby that began to gain popularity in the 1960s and 70s. There are antique bottle shows and auctions all over the country. Some pieces sell for many thousands of dollars. They’re often stained from acids in the soil that permeate the surface of the glass.

I bought a 1926 farmhouse in Northern New Hampshire and found their old "trashpit" while digging a garden. I recall finding a few glass bottles.

 

[PicassosPleasure]

I don’t know too much about depression era glass. The bottles I collect are all hand blown before the automatic bottle machine was patented in 1902. Because each one was blown into a mold and finished with various tools, each one has unique mold marks, tooling marks, bubbles, and other characteristics. Part of the appeal is the embossing in the old patent quack medicines, long-gone breweries and distilleries, soda and mineral waters, and other products. Many feature the name of the proprietor and the town where the product was produced and sold. It’s a fun way to learn about history.

It does sound like a great way to learn history. Sounds like there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. I collected antique wine bottles, but just for home decor purposes. I'll have to check them, but am not sure how old they would be. I also enjoy learning how things are or were made, so thanks for that aspect if your post.

 

[Jeb56]

Maynard G. Krebs

 

[shewantsmore]

I remember a time before the internet, no one had mobile phones,had to use phone box, writing letters, and playing outside with friends,

 

[PersonalFavors]

I don’t know too much about depression era glass. The bottles I collect are all hand blown before the automatic bottle machine was patented in 1902. Because each one was blown into a mold and finished with various tools, each one has unique mold marks, tooling marks, bubbles, and other characteristics. Part of the appeal is the embossing in the old patent quack medicines, long-gone breweries and distilleries, soda and mineral waters, and other products. Many feature the name of the proprietor and the town where the product was produced and sold. It’s a fun way to learn about history.

It is. If you are ever in Upstate New York the Corning Glass Museum will be of interest to you. I have a small blue cat I made while I was there. They had guys blowing bottles. My father was a chemist so I bent glass tubes one time making a science project.
Depression glass I think was collected with stamps provided when you shopped at the grocer. Trade the stamps for kitchenware during the depression when you could barely afford to eat. My grandparents home was finished in 1933. I have the three years of payments booklet for the 460$ piece of land it was built on and the 6000$ deed. That was a fortune for a cobbler. I think my grandmother cleaned homes for people that could afford it. So yes, I remember Endicott Johnson Shoes too.

 

[Jeb56]

I remember a time before the internet, no one had mobile phones,had to use phone box, writing letters, and playing outside with friends,

Good days indeed.