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Posted by jrdwyer (My Page) on Wed, Feb 3, 10 at 10:48
| Our family has taken on recycling in a big way. We have no curbside pickup for recyclables, but store everything in reusable plastic bins in the garage and then go to the local recycling days when we are out and about. I just give them everything including the aluminum cans for free because it helps cover the expenses of the non-profit agency that does it.
So getting on to the money savings tips, I have also been collecting household metal scraps like stripped screws, bent nails, old brake rotors, old metal toys, broken bike parts, electronic cases, etc. and putting them in durable plastic garbage bins in the garage (homemade wood crates from scrap would be cheaper still). It took a few years, but I recently collected a whopping $15 for 300 lbs (that's 5 cents/lb. or $100/ton).
Obviously it's not a lot of money, but recycling is better than throwing the stuff in the landfill. It doesn't really take a lot of extra time to recycle if you are organized and have space. Recycling is mostly about having a different mindset, call it cheap or frugal if you will. |
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| There are people here in the recycling business that actually go house to house to buy recyclables; old newspapers, glass bottles, plastic bottles, metals, old car batteries, even broken appliances. What we do is just sort out the junk, Yesterday I sold $2.00 for a sack of plastic bottles, a busted fan and few glass bottles. Like what you said it isn't much but in our own little way help save the environment. |
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| I think it's great that you can recycle for money. My town does not pay local people for scrsap metal. But it does provide curb-side pickup of plastics, glass, metal, newspaper and corrugated cardboard. Guess you can't have it both ways. I compost kitcgen scraps, participate in the town pickups, bring magazines to either doctors waoiting rooms or my local layundromat. So we all do what we can. I remember when I was a kid we stacked our newspapers in the garage. Dad would put them in the back seat of the car and bring them somewhere to sell. I don't know where he took them or how much he was paid. |
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