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No incentive to recycle cans or to make money

Letter from Gordon Braam on his recent experience trying to exchange cans for cash.

Editor:

All we hear these days is reduce, reuse, recycle, green planet, etc.

I grew up with the ethic of work hard, make money.

I spent Wednesday hiking Dog Creek Road for four hours collecting empties.

No sense in going to Amanda Enterprises as it pays cut rate.

I brought my empties to the liquor store and was sent packing because my cans were dirty.

I am living in a rooming house. I have nowhere to clean them. I tried to clean the planet, work hard, and make some lunch money but I quit.

I hope all in Williams Lake ends up to their waists in empty beer cans, as there is just no incentive to recycle them, work hard, or make money.

It was easier to make money at this when I was five than it is at 45.

Gordon Braam

Williams Lake