A Sad Day

[Emancipation 2]

So.. you know you come from a small home town when you see the following news story in your Provinces' headlines..

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-isl...canned-pop.html

For YEARS our Island took a stand against aluminum cans and argued that for environmental reasons bottled pop (all carbonated beverages) and beer needed to be in glass bottles only. To my knowledge it's a pretty rare ban (at least in N. America), and it was a novelty for tourists to visit and to get their pop in glass bottles. And not to shabby when going back to the bottle depot and getting 20 cents for a small bottle and 40 cents for a big 'un.. Nice money in bottle drives back home. But alas today they will lift the ban.. Nice one!!! It will be strange to go home and get pop in cans and plastic bottles.. I'll miss the glass on the side of the roads and in ditches and smashed everywhere.. Really I will

[Jasman0717 9]

There will be money to be made with recycled pop cans

[Emancipation 2]

Very true. it will just TAKE more to MAKE more..

My fav bit about that story is that beer is the first bevy to be brought in as cans.. nice one.. CDNS have their priorities right

[almaty 19]

hmm........beer in cans is not as good as bottled, but it is stillb eer

[Amby 490]

I don't really drink pop but I do believe in recycling

[Emancipation 2]

It's one of those things.. cans can be recycled as well as bottles.. it really was a weak argument! It was mostly to keep the jobs in the small town (we had a bottling plant), but that company was sold a few years back, so no need to keep the law in place..

Just a unique feature about my little Island.. loads of glass bottles.. and Anne of Green Gables of Course!