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| Some beer varieties may take a hit due to aluminum can shortage |
| 2020-07-27 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #18 The toga at work gave it away. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-07-27 22:57 |
| #17 Raj = ? Sen. Blutto? |
| Posted by: Lumpy Mussolini7603 2020-07-27 22:34 |
| #16 Raj, Dude y'all got my love! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-27 22:08 |
| #15 I would think that bottles and cans would have different diameter bases, if so while lying down on a treadmill it would be easy to separate them. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-07-27 17:00 |
| #14 Skidmark - I'm semi-pro; three and a half years at a fraternity that'd give the Delta House a run for their money. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-07-27 16:29 |
| #13 SteveS, isn't that the plot of Wall-e? |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-07-27 16:14 |
| #12 Or you could just send it all to the landfill and wait for someone to invent a nano-tech garbage muncher that scoops up big bites of miscellaneous stuff and separates it into its molecular components. After resources get scarce enough to make this profitable, of course. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-07-27 15:46 |
| #11 How do the recycling folks separate aluminum cans out of the mixed* recycling from my town? If it were me, a magnet to pull off the steel, then manually for the rest. Which is why they used to just send the stuff to China — cheaper than hiring locally at minimum wage. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-07-27 15:23 |
| #10 BTW - How do the recycling folks separate aluminum cans out of the mixed* recycling from my town? *Steel, aluminum, seven types of plastic (all seven triangles), newspaper, mixed paper, and cardboard - all in one bin. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-07-27 14:29 |
| #9 Typically Aluminum manufacturing was near hydro power plants because it needs a lot of power. As environmentalists put Nuke and Hydro power out of business aluminum processing will go up. I don't think that applies to recycled though, that's just melting and reforming cans.. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-07-27 13:54 |
| #8 Wow. I got a little hit of envy. 30 packs of Bud Light, 20 of them. That's a good summer, Dude. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-27 13:50 |
| #7 ..use the burning courthouses? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-07-27 13:21 |
| #6 You could start your own smelter maybe? |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-07-27 13:13 |
| #5 I'm still sitting on 20 or so empty Bud Light 30-packs because the nitwits running Mass. wouldn't allow me to return them for nearly 3 months. Nope, not a contributing factor at all... |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-07-27 12:43 |
| #4 Fine with me. Aluminum cans make beer taste like $hit. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-07-27 11:41 |
| #3 Clearly we need to buy more ore from the Russians. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-27 11:40 |
| #2 OK, anyone notice that "Solar Cells are putting coal out of business!" doesn't quite mesh with "...but it's too expensive to make aluminum any more in this country"? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountainn 2020-07-27 11:19 |
| #1 Luckily beer also comes in bottles. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-07-27 11:07 |