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Breaking News

Bottle exchange operators shutting

Some bottle exchange operators in N.B. are talking about shutting down

Backyard, mom-and-pop shops find new standards impossible on short notice, says association

David McCarthy poses for a photo in front of a wall of bottles
David McCarthy of the Eastern Recyclers Association says changes to bottle redemption programs will likely push some redemption centres out of the business. (Submitted by David McCarthy)

It appears some small New Brunswick communities and their bottle depots may take a hit in the switch to producer responsibility for beverage container waste.

CBC Story Here

History

On this day March 7

Today in History

  • 1971 A speech by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman helps spark the Bangladesh war of independence

    Bangladesh’s founding leader made his historical speech at a time of mounting tensions between East Pakistan, which later became Bangladesh, and West Pakistan, which became present-day Pakistan.

  • 1965 Police brutally attack civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama

    Scores of demonstrators were injured, and the day entered history books as Bloody Sunday. The event helped to shift public opinion in favor of the Civil Rights movement.

  • 1945 U.S. troops capture the Ludendorff Bridge and cross the Rhine at Remagen

    The legendary capture yielded little strategic advantage but it elevated the morale of the U.S. troops in pursuit of retreating German fighters,

  • 1926 The first two-way transatlantic telephone takes place

    The conversation between the post office in London and Bell Laboratories in New York was established using a short-wave radio signal.

  • 1900 The SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore

    The German transatlantic liner was fitted with wireless communication by its owner, Norddeutscher Lloyd, in order to outdo its rival Hamburg America Line.

History

On this day March 6

Today in History

  • 1987 193 people die when a ferry capsizes in the North Sea

    The Herald of Free Enterprise sank just minutes after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.

  • 1967 Stalin’s daughter defects to the West

    The Soviet dictator’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, caused an international uproar when she approached the United States embassy in New Delhi and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

  • 1957 Ghana becomes the first African country to gain independence from colonial rule

    Ghana emerged as a sovereign state from the former British colonies Gold Coast and Togoland. Kwame Nkrumah was the country’s first leader.

  • 1899 The painkiller Asprin is registered as a trademark

    Acetylsalicylic acid was first isolated in 1897 by German chemist Felix Hoffmann. Today, the medication is sold by Bayer and is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines.

  • 1869 The first periodic table of chemical elements is presented

    Dmitri Mendeleev presented the system to the Russian Chemical Society on that day.