New member, old gal, loves recycling safely

[NytowlMAB]

Hello,
I've been recycling since I was a little girl in the 1970s collecting pop bottles to turn in for money to get comic books. I've usually scrapped out & recycled steel/iron, aluminum, copper, and brass, over the years. Since I became disabled, which has slowed me way down, I've has to find new ways to do old stuff, but still recycle what I can, whenever I can.

Now that I'm an abandoned, disabled old gal helping two disabled adult sons, with the runaway

Well, I love learning, too, and while watching a playlist about the elements, I ran across a few that had uses I wasn't aware of, some in things I already scrap stuff out of, and recycle or repurpose stuff from, and when searching one, Indium, there was a thread on here about it. But... I had to to be a member to view the PDF on that thread, so... here I am!

 

[FrugalRefiner]

Welcome to the forum. If you were a little girl in the 1970s, you're not that old. I was a little by in the 1950s. Anyone 20 years younger than me is still a young whipper snapper to me.

I remember collecting pop bottles too. I used to get 1 penny each, but then the price went up to 2 cents apiece. WooHoo!

Dave

 

[markscomp]

Nickels from your neighbor's porch - per bottle here. Good to hear your story

 

[AndrewSuperD]

Welcome to the forum. I was little in the last half of the 70’s so … there’s that. And while I’m trying to read up and get better at gold recovery and refining, I’m still trading cans for $.05/each

 

[NytowlMAB]

Welcome to the forum. I was little in the last half of the 70’s so … there’s that. And while I’m trying to read up and get better at gold recovery and refining, I’m still trading cans for $.05/each

Well, at least they're 5 cents apiece, compared to half that, which they were for an interminably long time. And I've been known to bend over and pick up (nicely flattened!) cans from parking lots for many years, LOL!

 

[NytowlMAB]

Welcome to the forum. If you were a little girl in the 1970s, you're not that old. I was a little by in the 1950s. Anyone 20 years younger than me is still a young whipper snapper to me.

I remember collecting pop bottles too. I used to get 1 penny each, but then the price went up to 2 cents apiece. WooHoo!

Dave

Well, tell my kids I'm not old, LOL! Then again, my oldest is edging up towards that 40 mark, which I remind him of every time he teases me about my age.

Pop bottles were a bit more of a nuisance to recycle than aluminum cans, though. Awfully hard to flatten them to take up less space.