A Martime's View

The Innocents of Children - Seldom seen is the quickness of the child's mind. I think we hate picking up a newspaper in a restaurant and finding the page you want to read is gone. So many people think it is ok to remove pages because, the paper paid for by the restaurant is for customers.
Here in Québec,McDonald, Yes that McDonald, asks its customers to deposit $1 as a guarantee that they will return the paper. Several local restaurants do it differently, like big bold black lettering of "DO NOT REMOVE PAPER".

My nine year old granddaughter, when we were last visiting McDonalds, saw a newspaper on the empty table as we took our seats, and returned it to the cashier for the $1 refund. I was so surprised, I never really thought of the return... I just take it and read it.

Here we see the innocence of the child, who in sees the paper and knowing it is $1. not collected; is not shy to do what we all wish we could.

In this invisible world, how many deposits do we make and than we forget, or we are just too lazy, to be collected ? Bottles, cans, papers, store items...etc.

A few years back a New York law required that companies which collected deposits on cans and bottles had to return all collected moneies after one year. ( leaving a percentage for volume changes ) That first audit and collections of funds brought in over 15 million in New York state alone.
The logic of the lawmakers was that this money still belonged to the public and if returned to the government which respresents the poeple; it would get back to the public in less taxes. They continue this refund return policy and taxes probably didn't change. ( was in NY times in 2001)