Your Questions About Recycling

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Take your cans here: Ben’s recycling. (760) 967-0575 You can call them first and confirm they recycle cans

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Yeah, you can make a couple sheckles off recycling cans. You could also make money from helping out neighbors with chores (this is especially popular with the old people, they can’t do easy things by themselves and you’ll come out of it with some interesting stories and money). Also, mowing lawns, shoveling snow and babysitting. If you think some of these jobs are only for one gender or the other, don’t, money is money.

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I am guessing from your question that Texas does not have a returnable bottle law. In my state people pay a 5 cent deposit on all nondairy beverage containers when they buy a soda, juice or beer. The empty bottles and cans can be brought to a redemption center where you get the deposit back. This law went into effect about 30 years ago to reduce the amount of litter along the roads and has been very successful at accomplishing that. When I go to New Hampshire where there is not a similar law the difference is very noticeable.

Paper can be sold for recycling to paper mills. You would need to find a buyer or broker and learn how they want it sorted. They will probably want newsprint, cardboard and office paper all separated and baled. The price of paper is very low because the demand for paper is down. As more people get their news and do their shopping on line the demand for newsprint and catalogs has dropped.

Plastic is so low in value that it is not profitable for an individual to recycle. The town I live in pays more to truck plastic to the recycler than what the recycler pays for the plastic. We continue to do it because it is less expensive than the tipping fees at the landfill. Glass falls into the same category as far as the economics of recycling are concerned.

Metals are where the average person can make money recycling. I don’t know the current prices but the highest price metals are copper, aluminum and lead. Steel, tin and iron are less valuable. Look in the yellow pages under scrap metals and you will find several companies that buy scrap metal. A couple phone calls should get all your questions answered. Ask about plastic, glass and paper at the same time. Some companies handle more than just metal. The scrap markets in Dallas will be different than here in Maine.

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If the marketing focus was on encouraging people to buy products made from recycled materials then there would be a demand for recycled materials and one would receive money for recycling but that is not the case. When you ask most people on how to encourage recycling, they think of putting more recycling bins out, they think that recycling is a matter of collecting and sorting the recyclables. This greenwashing has resulted in a business model where people pay a monthly subscription to have the recyclables picked up resulting in a glut of recyclables such that they don’t even want some recyclables. Recovering money through the sale of the recyclables is secondary to these recycling companies so if they cannot sell them at a certain price, they dump them in landfills so the current push to recycling has only resulted in neatly sorted trash in the landfills.

So long as people think that having recycling bins and curbside recycling is environmentally friendly which it is not, you will only make money recycling plastic by charging people for the pickup of the plastic and tossing them into the landfill when the market is glutted. If people realize that you can only encourage recycling by buying products made from recycled materials then there will be money to be made. Until then, people are just pushing on a rope thinking they are doing some good for the environment.

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Recycle aluminum cans….

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Here are the top 5 biggest reasons to recycle your empty inkjet cartridges.

First of all, each cartridge that is recycled saves almost 3 pounds of natural resources associated with the production of a new cartridge.

Second, each inkjet cartridge that is recycled also saves an average of 3.5 ounces of oil. With the worldwide demand for oil on the rise and supplies shrinking, a little effort can make a significant impact over time.

The third reason you should recycle or reuse your empty inkjet cartridges is to reduce the strain on local landfills. An inkjet cartridge does not biodegrade in a landfill, as other waste will over time. Once a cartridge is discarded, it will be there for several hundred years.

It is estimated that over 300 million printer cartridges are disposed of in landfills annually. That creates 75,000 tons of waste each year, which is equal in weight to more than 30,500 African Elephants!

The forth reason is that recycled and remanufactured inkjet cartridges save money. Recycling your empty cartridges provides empty cores to cartridge remanufacturing companies that, in turn, professionally refill and sell to users at a discounted price. Consumers will see the same reliability, performance and quality as using an original brand OEM cartridge but at a lower cost.

Finally, recycling ink cartridges is fast and easy. Many companies that sell remanufactured cartridges either at the retail level or online also have a recycling program.

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1.Of course,paper can be recycled for money.
2.You can search the Internet where the nearest reclamation depot is.

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Recycling center. Hope that helps.

It all depends on where you are in the country. Some grocery stores take cans/bottles etc.