By Jon Caldara | Complete Colorado
When I was a kid, I’d collect old tin cans and the newfangled aluminum beer cans. My father would drive me down to the Coors distribution warehouse in Littleton. They’d weigh them and they gave me cash, real cash in my hand for recycling.
This was my first interaction with “Coors.”
Coors invented the completely recyclable aluminum beverage container. Now the marketplace standard, it saved more waste and pollution than an army of greenies banning shopping bags, and without any governmental mandates.
Later in life, my interactions with Coors included sneaking into my parents’ garage to sneak cans of Coors Light.
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