Scotland has announced it will pilot "innovative" recycle and reward schemes, in co-operation with nine companies, in a bid to increase the amount of cans and bottles collected for recycling. Home retail giant IKEA, Dundee University, Network Rail and Whitmuir Organics are some of the companies...
At World Cup, discarded beer bottles and cans mean quick cash for savvy scavengers
Cash Daniels spends several hours every week cleaning up cans and bottles in the rivers near his home with other teen environmentalists in Chattanooga, TN. Together, they have collected more than 1 ton of aluminum cans, nearly 1,000 cans a week for a year. In January, he co-founded a ...
The container deposit scheme will start in the ACT on June 30 this year, with Canberrans able to receive a 10 cent refund for empty drink containers such as aluminium cans and plastic water bottles. There will be two types of collection points – a face-to-face express service run by soci...
Recycling aluminum cans for moneyisn’t the only way to get a little cash from things you can’t use. I have talked aboutrecycling plastic bottles for cashbefore, but did you know that you can recycle glass as well? Recycling glass is a cheap and easy way to make money. ...
for medical treatment or equipment. Some scrap merchants have resorted to producing leaflets (sent to schools or clubs) or news items in local papers when they hear of such collections. In the USA, one firm encouraged people to collect whole cans, not just the ring pulls, and other scrap ...
You can get cash for some of the following items you might have in your house: Loose metal (i.e., sheet metal, copper, tire rims) Appliances Metal cans Glass bottles For larger objects like your old washer and dryer, you will need a truck and trailer to haul your scrap off. You ...
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