"Andy" > wrote in message ...
> Bobo Bonobo® said...
>
>> Man, my cup runneth over with restaurant coupons. I have buches of
>> BOGO coupons for any sandwich at a particular McD's.
>
> I've never heard of a coupon being location specific!?!
>
>
>> Del Taco put out
>> a sheet of coupons, so I searched the recycling containers in my old
>> neighborhood for those,
>
> That paints a terrible mental picture. We used to get poor people going
> through curbside trash looking for aluminum cans and they would toss
> anything in their way onto the curb. We called them human roaches.


In a large city in Brazil (Curitiba), outside of almost every building is a
re-cycling container. I believe the only things you are allowed to put
there are cardboard, glass and cans. During the day, people can come around
and collect these things and sell them at a city recycling center in
exchange for food vouchers and bus passes. The city also "hires" homeless
and poor people to literally sweep the streets. They are issued a wheeled
barrel and a broom and a safety vest and they walk along, hand sweeping the
gutters and sidewalks. Again, they are paid with food vouchers. Curitiba is
the cleanest city I have ever visited, anywhere.

George L