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  2. Privy digging - Wikipedia

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    Pontiled medicine bottles, ink bottles, beer and soda bottles, and many others, particularly those manufactured between the 1830s-1860s are among the most sought after and can sell for thousands of dollars each. However, in reality an average pontiled find discovered while privy digging is worth less than twenty dollars.

  3. History of bottle recycling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For bottle-to-bottle recycling, the bottles have to be decontaminated which was achieved by introducing "super-clean recycling processes," which in the US was done for the first time in 1991. [5] These processes clean "recycled PET flakes to contamination levels similar to virgin PET pellets," so that they can be reused as beverage containers. [5]

  4. Vintage spirits - Wikipedia

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    An Old Fitzgerald Bottled in Bond, barreled in 1965 and bottled in 1971, was estimated by its collector in 2016 to be worth $1,000. [10] A 1974 bottle of Old House Reserve was estimated at $6,500 in 2023. [1] A bottle of Old Rip Van Winkle 25 year old, from a defunct Kentucky distiller, was sold for $55,000. [4]

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  6. Century-old bottles found in trash pit to be displayed at SLO ...

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    The glass bottles offer a window into life at the lighthouse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a docent said. Century-old bottles found in trash pit to be displayed at SLO County ...

  7. Get rich stealing old newspapers and bottles!

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    It's an organized industry featuring fleets of trucks and cell phones looking to take advantage of rising commodity prices. Much of the paper makes its way over to China where it's less plentiful.

  8. Beer bottle - Wikipedia

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    Beer bottles are sometimes used as makeshift clubs, for instance in bar fights. As with pint glasses, the use of glass bottles as weapons is known as glassing. Pathologists determined in 2009 that beer bottles are strong enough to crack human skulls, which requires an impact energy of between 14 and 70 joules, depending on the

  9. Container deposit legislation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Canned wine with Iowa 5¢ and Maine 15¢ insignia Cans discarded less than two years after the Oregon Bottle Bill was passed.. California (5¢; for bottles 24 U.S. fl oz (710 mL) or greater, 10¢; boxed wine, wine pouches and cartons 25¢), California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act (AB 2020) implemented in 1987, last revision made January 2024.