Fast Forward To The 1960's

Fast forward to the 1960s. At the age of around 65, my grandma would regularly collect discarded items: empty beer bottles, kerosene tins, and gunny sacks (rice bags). A man will come to collect them. A small beer bottle was 6 cents; large one: 10 cents; ketchup bottle: 3 cents; kerosene tin and gunny sack were 40 cents each. Demand for old newspapers was not there because the circulation was low. Whatever left of them was used by wet-market vendors to wrap meat, vegetables, grocery goods, and were also used as toilet papers by people who can’t afford to use the roll form. In those days, latrine toilets with buckets were the norm.