Recycling bottles for money
By Judy890
@Judy890 (1644)
United States
October 10, 2016 11:13am CST
Last month my husband and I decided that we should start collecting bottles and cans to earn money. We went to a redemption center on Friday and made $8.75 by collecting cans, plastic bottles and glass bottles. With this money we bought 2 packs of spaghetti, a loaf of bread, 2 packs of frozen veggies and 3 cans of beans. We made spaghetti and meat balls that night. 
$8.75 doesn't seem like much but it sure can feed you. Do you recycle? If not would you?
$8.75 doesn't seem like much but it sure can feed you. Do you recycle? If not would you?9 people like this
12 responses
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Oct 16
I have recycled for many years. Those dimes and nickels add up.
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@Judy890 (1644)
• United States
10 Oct 16
They really do! I live in ny and every where you go there's bottles laying on the ground, so that's 5-10c for every time I see a bottle. Sometimes I see bags of bottles in the garbage I guess it's those people who have no idea those bottles are worth something and maybe at their home they have a special garbage can for bottles. I always take them lol
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Oct 16
@Judy890 In California, you pay CRV on containers and the only way to redeem that fee is to recycle. People pay that recycle fee then don't recycle to get that nickel back!
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@Judy890 (1644)
• United States
10 Oct 16
@JohnRoberts so they pay the fee but don't recycle to get their change back?
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
10 Oct 16
Yes we recycle bottles for money. Glass we don't have much so we recycle in the recycle bin for the government to collect.
That is nice you were able to use the money toward food! :)
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
10 Oct 16
@Judy890 Yes, it's nice and you were able to turn that around and get some groceries 
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@paigea (36315)
• Canada
10 Oct 16
Mostly, I just save all the containers we use. So that is just getting back the deposit I paid.
I do pick up cans/bottles on our road when I walk or cycle. But that is very few. The bottle depots here are mystery shopped, so I get paid a fee for doing the mystery shop.
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@jstory07 (139974)
• Roseburg, Oregon
10 Apr 17
Oregon now charges ten cent per bottle and can so I cash them in all the time. When it was a nickle I got $20 for four bags of cans. And bought stuff that we were out of.
@rina110383 (24492)
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11 Oct 16
Yes, I used to do this with my mom at my parents' place. We collect plastic & glass bottles, egg cartons, boxes, white paper and newspaper. Then, someone from the junk shop drops by to buy them.
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@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
13 Dec 17
That is so cool how much you made and what you could buy for it. We have a machine at the supermarket I go to. I do not make that much but I do it.
@WriterAI (5373)
• Bulgaria
9 Apr 17
I recycle and get paid for it. You could read my posts on this topic.
