Recycle And Earn Money
The benefits of recycling are not for making some money, but also for helping the environment. If everyone would take recyclable materials to drop off sites to dispose of, the environment would have less waste in landfill sites. This helps the environment because landfill sites are filling up quickly and new ones are opening everyday. If everyone would recycle aluminum, paper, cardboard, cars, clothes, furniture, batteries, stainless steel and copper, there would be less garbage in landfill sites.
The main benefit of recycling then will be for saving the environment, but people have started making some money from recycling these types of materials. Whether recycling clothing and furniture through garage sales or giving to the Good Will, will make some money and help keep these things out of landfills prematurely. Today, you see many communities that have mandatory recycling that requires them to separate plastic, glass, cardboard, paper and aluminum before taking the garbage out for trash pick up.
Recycling is at present turning out to be a profitable business, which is at the same time an invaluable service you can do to society. Managing solid waste is a big problem in developed and developing countries. It is remarkable how many objects you use and discard daily can be effectively recycled. There are numerous recycling companies now that accept objects for recycling.
You can recycle computer equipment by taking away old and used computers from customers, stripping and reselling the circuit boards and chassis to others who will recycle those. Scrap metal can be sold to a metal vendor who will pay a reasonable price for it. You can sell old clothes, books and household items at consignment shops or flea markets and make some money thereby.
Recycling cell phones also can bring in considerable savings. There are cell phone recycling companies which buy used cell phones you can collect. The formalities include registering at their website and providing required details. These provide free shipping for a specified number of phones. Some of these companies accept only digital phones, while there are others who accept all kinds of technoscrap. You can also collect and sell used ink cartridges to recycling agencies and earn money. Plastic objects, tins and bottles are other items that can be recycled.
Today there are any number of buyback centers that purchase recyclable materials. You can sell the materials you collect to these centers which will pay you money according to the weight of material collected. Recyclable materials include paper, cans, bottles, cardboard, etc. You can also sell old furniture to shops that specialize in these. The old furniture is given a facelift and resold to customers on the lookout for used furniture.
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Thanks for a great post. You are absolutely right, its amazing how many every day items can be recycled by someone somewhere. One excuse that I come across quite often in the line of work that I am is that recycling is too much of a hassle. Luckily, there are services making it much easier to recycle.
You had mentioned Goodwill as place to drop off things for recycling or like I like to say, re-purposing. Not only does depositing old items to your local Goodwill do good for the environment but also helps but those with barriers to employment to work.
We partnered up with Goodwill Industries of Central Texas to conduct a massive cell phone drive in the City of Austin. It took place from mid October to November 13th. We are still collecting phone donations and we have surpassed the 100 phone mark. The good thing is that any old cell phones donated to this drive will help raise funds for their organization. Good for the environment, good for the community and great for those making the donations.
I think people inherently know not to throw away old cell phones. That probably explains why on average in cell phone user households there are 2.5 old cell phone stashed away somewhere. It is also estimated that there are over 500 million old cell phones in American households and offices. When you take into account that one disposed cell phone improperly can contaminate ten’s of thousands of gallons of water, WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM ON OUR HANDS and we must work together.
One initiative that we have is that we are able to work with companies, non-profits and organizations on implementing a cell phone collection tool on their site, branded for them and for their cause.
Keep up the great work and I look forward to reading future posts.
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