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    New source for aluminum?

    I was driving along the other day, SMH at all the aluminum cans on the side of the road, thinking about my autonomous can collecting robot idea, when a thought occurred to me. There must be a veritable aluminum mine along all the ditches across the US. I'm not saying we should strip mine the top foot of the ditches. I just realized how much aluminum must be in the top soil of all the ditches of all the roads across America that has collected over the decades! Just something to think about.
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    You know what's funny? Some one who drinks a lot of canned products, won't hesaitate to toss a can out the window...but try an buy their broken electronics an the fools want retail. Yet they throw money out the window every single day!

    People can be stupid.

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    I wonder at all the people tossing their cans out the window as they drive - why do they do this? Did they grow up in a barn?

    But then I just pull over and collect the money they threw away. Today was can processing day for me, crushing away happily in the sunshine. Bags of money, the way I see it.

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