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We could have lost our business.

Had single use plastics been used back several decades ago when Donnie and I collected glass Coke and Pepsi bottles we would not had means to buy our Saturday morning comic books and candy from Joe Miller.  Joe Miller was president and CEO of Millers Market on Olympic Boulevard in East L A. 

Almost every Saturday morning, Donnie and I would rummage through trash cans in the back alley off our street, Simmons Avenue.  Often finding empty bottles of Coke and Pepsi.  Glass bottles redeemable at our local Ma and Pa market.  Sometimes we would find a whole six pack of glass empties.  Better yet if we found quart glass bottles we returned them to Mr. Miller for even more money.  Two cents for a 12-oz bottle and five cents for a quart bottle.  Bottles sent back to the soft drink bottlers to be washed and refilled.

But as it is now, almost all soft drinks come in a “Single Use” disposable plastic bottle.  Creating huge land fills full of disposable plastic.

So gone is our Saturday morning enterprise.  Therefore we’ll just stay home and watch Saturday cartoons and eat pancakes.  Pass the syrup would ya.