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Recycling to Save the Earth: Making the most money from recycling

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Recapturing some of the money spent

Why lose money that you can get back simply by returning it to be reused?

Whenever a can of soda, or a can of tuna fish is bought, a certain amount of the price that is paid is for the cost of the materials that the container was made from may be charged to the total amount that the consumer winds up paying. If it's an aluminum can, or a bottle of water perhaps soda made from plastic, that cost is very up front in certain states in the form of a redemption charge that is added to the price of the item to begin with.

This money can be returned to the consumer with nothing more then a conscientious manner of being. Simply put, don't just throw away your trash. Trash can equal money (Trash=$$), and not just made earned, but money saved by reclaiming the fees that have been made necessary.


Jack Johnson Gettting Down For Recycling

Taking Recycling As a Way of Life

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Going to Great Lengths for Recycling!

Recycling Metals (Including Aluminum)

Aluminum is not the only metal that is recyclable!

Copper, Brass, Silver, Gold, Platinum are higly sought after...

and are rarely thrown away.

Steel is running short worldwide..

and can be found in the containers, you purchased from the grocery market store. Any magnet will tell you if there is steel in the product. Steel should definitely be recycled.

Aluminum comes in many forms besides cans...

and is the highest paying most easily accessible recyclable metal. Usually it will yield at least a dollar per pound.


Things to Help Make Recycling Easier and the Earth Greener.

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Earning Extra Money From The Neighbors & Co-Workers

Kids & Adults both can benefit from your neighbors recyclables if they aren't already doing it.

Kids - If you know your neighbors, and they don't happen to be very into recycling:

This is your chance to make some extra kid cash without having to take too much time from studying. Ask your neighbors if you can recycle their soda cans, and their plastic bottles too. If they are like most households, they will have enough so that if you were to do that for two or three houses, it may be possible to make ten to twenty extra dollars per week just by doing the planet a favor, and helping to conserve resources.

Adults - Hidden Gold! Recycling in the workplace.

Office trash cans are not usually very dirty, except for the paper that is thrown out. Along with the bottles & cans that taken to work each day with people's lunches. How many of them actually take home those containers? A few of course, but many do not. Herein lies the perfect chance to score an extra fifteen buck a week in a large office of 30 or so people, and proportionally as much in offices of other sizes, and no digging through the trash is not the only option.

Let it be known in your office that you are into recycling, and wish to help keep it up at the office. People will give you extra respect as a bonus, and you will have a money magnet in the form of a one-time purchase of "Recycling Can", and occasionally trash bags. It will come to you!

Choose your answer, and let it be heard.

Do you actively recycle?

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  • I recycle when it's convenient
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