Oklahoma lawmaker considers a bottle bill
Children in Oklahoma circa 1965 could pick up easy money by picking up empty pop bottles and redeeming them for cash.
This wasn't done out of environmental concerns. For the kids it was a matter of economic self-interest — what the recycled 1960s protesters on Wall Street might call greed.
By the end of the '60s, cans had replaced returnable bottles as the container of choice for pop. Cans can be recycl...
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