I remember when bottles had 2 cent deposits. Bottles were about the only trash then, there was virtually no fast food to be divested of its wrappings. We would take a burlap sack and walk the highway to the nearest store, however far that was. When we got there our sack was usually worth five bucks or so. A week or two later we would do the other side. We did this twice a year I think. Forty bucks a year was not a good salary even then, but shared between two small boys it made a pretty good supplement to our pocket money.

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