Recycling for Money

I'm really lucky to live in a country where recycling is heavily encouraged. We're paid 10 cents for cans and bottles, so everyone I know collects them and cashes them in regularly. It really adds up to a nice bit of extra pocket money and it helps the environment at the same time :)

My brother has several huge bins in his yard he has built and he has many people who bring him cans. He has some drinkers who bring him lots of cans. My daughter and I save soda cans and I bring 'em every couple of weeks. When things get tough, he loads enough up when the price is decent and makes a couple hundred dollars, so it helps out for him when he really has a need.

Hi Nailtech, over here, many old people collect tins and cans. They even look into the dustbins to fish out the cans. Since the government has collectors coming to the housing estate every week to collect and pay us for the papers, and other used items, it makes sense for the old people to collect, and earn some money. I do not collect anything outside. The only thing I sell is the old newspapers from my house.

Good day NailTech, With reference to your main topic, recycling for money is one great idea. As this will really help you to add an extra fund. And with the tin cans that you are collecting, I am proud to say that I have also done that, selling empty tin cans to the junk shop. And that one works as I was able to generate at least an amount of fund to be added to my allowance.

I have been attempting to do this for a long time. But every time I am ready someone in my house always has to speak against it. For instance, my boyfriend once told me that Safeway store buys soda cans. His family has been taking advantage of that for a long time. In my house, I tried collecting cans to do the same. But either my dad or mom ends up throwing them away with the excuse that they make a mess.

We used to separate recyclable things from trash. Just imagine how many trash we are having in our daily lives. It' better to be responsible for helping mother nature plus we can make money by bringing it to junkshops or some people going out on collecting those stuffs in nearby areas. Well, what we do is collect more of those before selling it to make more money. There can be other things we can do like recycling them by making an artwork from those and sell it or something like making the trash more reasonable to gain income with.

Well now, we used our old clothes and sell them, the plastic, bottles and others stuffs we also sell them, here in the Philippines there are hundreds of people who loves to buy scrap materials because they also sell it to junk shops and the junk shop give it to the companies that makes the recycling materials for another one..

In here, there are so many people who work with it. Collect anything that could be recycling, they got a good profit since it didn't need anything except energy and shameless. For the collector or dealer, they could live in wealth.

Well dear friend, your discussion draft, first is an interesting topic, which is: the recycling of materials. Me in my house with my family we always make the separate collection in the trash. For example, separately collect paper, plastics and other materials and to deposit them out in the appropriate containers. Up to here your discussion in a row just fine. Certainly if you talk to me then the recycling of money, excuse me for saying but it seems to me like a joke. Who in times of crisis like this never would give you some money in hand in order to make you happy?. is already very difficult for humanitarian organizations to raise funds. I think we will find other strategies to make money!

As far as I know, where I live you can only recycle cans, scrap metal, copper wiring, and batteries. There may be other things you can recycle where I stay, but if so I don't know anything about them. I do recycle cans from time to time. I seldom go out actively looking for them, but sometimes if I'm taking a walk or something of that nature, I'll pick up the ones that I see. I usually save the soda cans that I drink also. I haven't really been successful at doing it. The few times I've done it I've only made a few bucks, with the most being around 16 dollars. I have an uncle that saves cans, and he told me that smashing them makes them weigh more, so I use that technique when saving them. So people know how to save a lot of them before they recycle them. That's one way to get a nice little hand of cash. Sorry I can't help you anymore. I just know about the cans.

I collect them and it is good money, specially for metals and paper. I also collect plastic bottle. But my family never go out to collect, we just collect from our rubbish bin, keep them until certain among. There are 4 methods to deal with them. 1. there is a big collection box in the lobby of our building. When my family go out, will carry some for those box. 2. There is a recycle truck parking near my building a few time a week. We can see all people carry stuff to the truck to cash out. Not much money, mostly a few dollars each time. 3. Put outside our door for the people who walk by to collect them, free of charge. 4. sometime, the estate make some activities like 10 cans = 1 noodles / 1 toilet paper, that is good deal too.

We save the cans and plastic bottles at our home and bring them to the recycling machines in the stores nearby where we get a few cents per can/bottle for recycling. It is not much but we can get a few dollars every few months. We recycle paper and cardboards, etc and the recycling trucks pick it up in our city once per week but we don't get paid for it though...

Living in Croatia in this hard economics, collecting bottles and cans, is a way of life for some people. Old people, and unemployed regularly visiting trash cans and collect cans and bottles. It can be cashed out for 9-10 cents per piece. Not much money, but it helps, since lots of people doesn't have enough money to pay the bills. Other effect is esthetic, since there is no trash in the site on public places (well, at least much less than it was before). Some countries in Europe have this possibility, some don't, and I must say that is quite visibly less trash on the streets where this this things are collected.

Obviously it depends on how many cans/bottles you save up before you cash in...my dad is in construction & he has all the guys on his crew throw their cans/bottles in a bin he built & then he brings the full ones home for my brother & I. We usually have about 7 or so extra large heavy duty trash bags when we finally cash them in & get around $50 on average, so if you have the space it doesn't hurt. We don't go out digging through trashcans or anything, just our personal recycling & what my dad gets at work.

yea over here in NY they give you 5 cents for each soda can you recycle they do it at most grocery stores