Transcript:
Charlie Brown and Shermy are pushing/pulling a wagon filled with papers down the lane. The former says,“This is going to be a great paper sale!”
He continues,“We’ll cover the whole city! We’ll knock on every door! We’ll collect tons of paper!”
Shermy stops and pulls on one of the papers. He exclaims,“Say! Look at this!” Charlie Brown looks and exlaims,“Comic books!”
With other comics lying around them and the wagon behind them, the boys sit side by side on the curb reading comics.
Original comic:
Was this how things worked before on-street recycling pickup was a thing? They would send children around the city to collect paper products?
Here’s some context:
https://davidmarchant.blogspot.com/2024/12/i-loved-those-paper-drives.html
Old paper used to be more valuable for recycling. Not sure if it was just that on-street recycling pickup wasn’t a thing yet, or that it wasn’t quite worth the money to do more than have kids run around doing cheap labor, or what. Recyclers would have kids go around and collect paper to bring to them, and the kids would get some money for their school/community.
Shermy and Charlie Brown have collected some paper already and plan to collect more, but get distracted when they notice comics in the papers they’ve already collected. It confused me at first why they’d have papers and call it a paper sale, but also want to collect papers. It’s because they’re selling donated papers to a recycler. “Paper drive” pulled up better search results than “paper sale”, which was mostly online paper stores
