Earn Money Through Recycling

[mathewrobert]

Recycling is rapidly becoming a profitable business and also helps to maintain green sustainable ecology. Recycling organic waste, electronic gadgets, wood, paper helps to reduce land pollution and protection of environment. Know more about how to earn money by recycling residential, commercial, industrial goods and items. Go Green! Earn Green!
Some things that can help you earn money are listed below.
* Used cans and bottles can be collected from campgrounds, city parks and other places and sold to buyback collection centers in and around your area. Offer to collect them from neighbors and friends who are too lazy to go to the local recycling center, what you earn would be a small amount initially but remember, the more you collect the more you earn.
* Recycling old books can get you money as well. A flea market or a consignment shop would be a good place to sell off your books. Online auctions, university message boards and garage sales are other options. You could also keep your eyes open for collectible books among the old books in your home, which can earn you a lot of money.

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[Mad Scientist]

Recycling is basically a good idea but unless it is really convenient it will not happen. Here is my recycling tail.

I work with wood, metal, electronics, when machining metal I make lots of chips. For awhile I was saving these chips for recycling.. I had one individual ask me to make him 25 small copper test tubes. So I bought a 15 pound length of copper rod which at the time was over $8 a pound. Knowing that most of it would be turned into chips I saved these chips, all 12 pounds of them.

I then took them and plus over a 100 pounds of aluminum chips that I had been saving for over a year and drove 20 minutes to my local junk yard. Stood around another 20 minutes until they weighed the copper and aluminum which I purposely keep separate, and gave me a receipt. I then went to the cashier and collect my new found wealth, all $14 worth. That was the last time I have taken anything for recycling. It simple is not worth the time and effort.

We have garbage pickers that come around on our garbage pickup day looking for any scrap metal they can find and even they will not bother with a bag full of metal shavings.

[Nadda]

Recycling is basically a good idea but unless it is really convenient it will not happen.

Yeah i agree. You'd have to save all of your pop cans for a year to get maybe a hundred bucks. Being in construction, i've recycled loads of different metals and the one tip i can give is that if you have aluminum siding make sure you save it and recycle it yourself if you get it replaced with vinyl siding. You'll make somewhere around $100 for each side of the house.

In my city we have a steel manufacturer, Buckeye Steel, which recycles steel so i just put any appliances or any materials that have steel in them out by the alley trash can and scrappers will get it within the hour. It saves me time, makes them money, and is good for the enviroment.

George Bush's great grandfather was the president of Buckeye Steel. Here's some history on it..

In 1901, he returned to Columbus to be General Manager of Buckeye Steel Castings Company, which manufactured railway parts. The company was run by Frank Rockefeller, the brother of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, and among its clients were the railroads controlled by E. H. Harriman. The Bush and Harriman families would be closely associated at least until the end of World War II. In 1908, Rockefeller retired and Bush became President of Buckeye, a position he would hold until 1927, becoming one of the top industrialists of his generation.

[mathewrobert]

Yeah i agree. You'd have to save all of your pop cans for a year to get maybe a hundred bucks. Being in construction, i've recycled loads of different metals and the one tip i can give is that if you have aluminum siding make sure you save it and recycle it yourself if you get it replaced with vinyl siding. You'll make somewhere around $100 for each side of the house.

In my city we have a steel manufacturer, Buckeye Steel, which recycles steel so i just put any appliances or any materials that have steel in them out by the alley trash can and scrappers will get it within the hour. It saves me time, makes them money, and is good for the enviroment.

George Bush's great grandfather was the president of Buckeye Steel. Here's some history on it..

Thanks for the information .

[OccultBook]

We realized the same thing ourselves--it is just not worth the time, money, and effort. We collected newspapers and sold them for a trifle. Now we just burn them or use them to wrap up garbage.

[rachard1583]

You can have laws. You can have economic stimulus packages to green your economy, but in the end it comes down to consumer choices, what each one of us decides to do in our daily lives.

[shawn]

I have recycled all kinds of things for decades, grew up on a farm so we would always be looking for various types of useful metal to fix equipment or make items we needed.
I have had some great recycle experiences, but like mentioned above, so many things are simply too costly to bother with.
Both in time and money.
And that is the attitude of the big stores as they would rather bin items they cannot move rather than do anything useful with them.
It all hinges on our current economic model which makes obsolescence a key factor in engineering new artifacts and causes that whole sector to design things to be quickly worn out so they need to be replaced thus keeping the cash turning over.
This model is long past its expiry date and we can no longer afford such wasteful ways.
But is me saving my pasta sauce containers to go in a special bin that we don't even have the industry to handle the results, going to effect a change?
It all comes down to the larger model we all interact through.
The change has to come from the top.