Do you recycle your Cans And bottles for extra cash.
We do. We got bored today and took our stash of collectables down to the local depot. WOW we were not the only ones bored.
There we ten folks ahead of us. The guy in front of us scored $120.30 in cash. Well done son, he collects and delivers twice a week.thats an extra $240 per week.
The young lass dishing out the money said this morning they had served 74 individuals for 39,000 returns thus far for =$3900.00 and it was only 11.20am.
Our take $17.80
A dollar's a dollar, Can't go broke making a dollar.
And yes they were kept well apart by a full cars length each.
what was the total cost of getting them there. Cost to run a 4 cyc car is in excess of 90 cents a km, how far did you drive. A lot of people go broke trying to make a dollar
cheers
blaze
what was the total cost of getting them there. Cost to run a 4 cyc car is in excess of 90 cents a km, how far did you drive. A lot of people go broke trying to make a dollar cheers blaze
Come on Blaze have you never got in a car and just gone for a drive for no real reason other just something to do
I do it all the time especially on my motorbike , it must of cost me thousands over the years , I often just go bush for a drive for no other reason that I feel like it in the 4wd and its a 5.6Lt petrol .
I could drop a few cans off on the way , that's if I had some cans and I don't and Victoria has no refund anyway .
Open your eyes boy, money is where you find it. yesterday was $17.80 Plus We picked up an extra $2.05 been a $2 coin along with a 5 cent piece. grand total $19.85
So What!
We keep it seperate and compound the lot from 20th December to the following anniversary.
Last year we compounded $1657.40 in total tax free. We use our new found wealth to wards our fuel costs on our next trip away.
Grey has a heart condition and must walk daily.Picking up cans and bottles gives him incentive to walk and I walk Shadow our Jack Russel.
As for Cost of getting our 10 cent pieces to market, we do a round trip to pick up the groceries. All up 3-4km.
When out on the road We stop for morming tea,lunch, and overnight camps. Grey goes walkabout with his bunnings picker upper each time while I check emails and messages.
We also do an Emu Bob to do our part. Its a daunting task.
Our van has an extented draw bar to witch we have a 2200mm x 600mm Rhino basket (second hand) from eBay.
Grey can carry two bags / two milk creats of other peoples trash (pigs) and in turn we deposit them at the next centre. It's not rocket science.
Stay safe everyone.
-- Edited by Old and Grey on Tuesday 21st of April 2020 08:42:25 AM
I took mine in while on WAY home from getting groceries . But I found after all the hard work then only getting voucher. Its hardly worth all the BS. Yes the gov gets the 10c per item first wether we return or not . I would say getting our money back is essential!! After all paying it in the first place IS !! Equal & opposite reactions !!
Be careful with current CV19 rules. On local news last night a lady got fined for doing just that. It wasn't essential travel.
when i was a lad that is how i use to earn some of my pocket money i would get on my bike an ride to the places that the teenagers used to drink an collect the empty beer bottles . Saturday and Sunday mornings were my big WORKING days i could earn $3-5 just about guaranteed every weekend
Yes Warren we are still ok , not doing much same as everyone else , bike is sitting in the garage with a full tank . I just started the Patrol for the first time in what seems like weeks , wish I had some cans to sell it probably cost me $17.80 just to start it .
Since the deposit system was introduced here in NSW we have been collecting all of our cans and bottles so we can give to our grand kids (4 and 5 years). They take them with their father to a collection point and have a bit of fun putting them into the machine.. They are still a bit young to have any real appreciation for money so it goes into their bank accounts - surprising how quickly it builds up at $2.40 or $3 a carton.
Yep mate, you probably aware that i were given 2 years, cancer going through body, they stopped chemo last wed oncoligist said corona thingy risk far outweighed any chemo benefit. all but one of my tumors have shrunk and my CEA count is down to 2.1 maybe just maybe i might have beaten the **** for a second time, time will tell, lot of water to go under the bridge yet. Bike been sold not capable of riding anymore, landcruiser hasn't seen a hill or a dirt road for ages. Now chemo stoped just waiting for SCOMO to tell WA and QLD to open their borders and we off. we missed out on all benefits so the $17.80 would be handy.
In my opinion, you are doing something that you like, picking up bottles and cans, so keep it up, and keep enjoying yourself
If no one picked up the refundable bottles and cans, and weighed them in, then they would probably never be recycled
As I have no means of transporting other peoples rubbish, (when travelling), then the refundable bottles and cans I pick up, unfortunately go direct to the nearest rubbish bin
I also point out the fact, that there is money, in picking up rubbish
I actually picked up an (old and dusty) $10 note, just outside the fence line, on the north side of the free camp, near the turn-off to Derby WA
I still have it, and will gladly return it to its rightful owner, when they supply me with the serial number
South Australia introduced a container deposit scheme in the 1970's, Its been a huge success.
We save household empty containers (beer, soft drink etc) take them into local drive through recycle depot on a shopping trip a couple of times a year, usually come out with about $70 in the pocket, so certainly worth the effort.
I believe some states have an automated machine refund system, all of the SA depots are manned, so in and out within a few minutes, the guys doing the sorting really are very fast, cant imagine having to feed them into a machine one at a time, would take for ever.
-- Edited by Santa on Tuesday 21st of April 2020 01:09:40 PM
My biggest problem is when I'm touring interstate - empty cans and bottles take up a lot of room, so can only retain for the last couple of weeks coming home. Thought about leaving the better half and dogs behind so I have more space but got outvoted 3 to 1 on that one.
My biggest problem is when I'm touring interstate - empty cans and bottles take up a lot of room, so can only retain for the last couple of weeks coming home. Thought about leaving the better half and dogs behind so I have more space but got outvoted 3 to 1 on that one.
On our last touring trip about this time last year, we came across the Hay Plains.
On one particular stretch it was just like the old days with cans & bottles littering the sides of the road out to the fence line. There must have been thousands over a few Km. We thought that it would be a great fund raiser for the local school to get all the kids & parents out with a few trailers to pick them up & clean up the place in the process.
Strange, that it was just in that one small stretch & the rest of the 2 or 3 hundred Ks quite free of rubbish.
I remember the days past when we did a lot of shooting in the Qld SW & NSW NW. We would measure distances between places by the number of stubbies that you would drink while travelling. eg. "Its a six pack from Condamine to Meendara". Of course you would throw the empties out over the roof onto the roadside. There were guys who would use utes to travel along the major roads picking up bottles & then taking them to semi trailers parked at road junctions et al for transporting in bulk to wherever for sale & reuse. They seemed to do a good business too.
Wouldn't even think of throwing stuff out of the car these days ... or even shooting Roos either, not to mention drink driving.
BTW, I have never taken a bottle/can for a refund .. No refund on wine bottles in Qld they tell me.
I remember recycling as a small kid, but we didnt call it recycling, it all went to the bottle yard, also scrap metal merchant. Always had recycling of some sort in SA.
Long neck beer bottles stacked beside the shed. All metal cans, including animal foods, were rinsed, had labels taken off, bottoms off, flattened and put into hanging wheat sack.
All paper and cardboard was burnt in the back yard incinerater. It was always checked if any neighbours had washing out.
When there was enough it was all loaded into the trailer, then off to the bottle yard.
That didnt leave much to go out for rubbish. Not much in plastic back in those days.
-- Edited by Relax-n on Wednesday 22nd of April 2020 04:09:53 PM
I used to have an old hand cart that I used to go round the neighbourhood collecting those old longnecks, although we didn't use that term as stubbies hadn't yet been invented. After rinsing them out I'd take them to the local pub who would buy them & give me a red drink while I waited.
He would fill them with keg beer and sell it as draft beer. Very popular on saturday afternoons each bottle wrapped in a few pages of newspaper.
Plus We picked up an extra $2.05 been a $2 coin along with a 5 cent piece. grand total $19.85
We use our new found wealth to wards our fuel costs on our next trip away.
