Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Is there any way to get a little extra cash from recycling cans and bottles?
There always seems to be one week out of the month where I'm scrounging every crack and corner looking for spare change to pay for gas, and I'm thinking of alternative solutions to getting a little extra money (barring a job, I've got that handled already). I've been collecting water bottles for the past few months, as I intend on buying a Brita water filter and using that to refill all the bottles to make it so we no longer need to buy packs of water bottles, but it occured to me that refilling all those bottles may impact the water bill negatively. Then the thought of recycling came up. I have about 113 bottles stored up, and I've heard you can recycle bottles for 5 cents...coming to $5.65, which I don't think is too bad. I went over what groceries we tend to get, and we usually get 2 24 packs of pop and 2 35 packs of bottled water every two weeks, and if I held onto every can or bottle from that, it would leave me with 118 bottles/cans every month. I'm thinking about buying another trash can to use exclusively for this idea, but would it be a good investment? And could I also include pop bottles and 2 liters when I finally recycle it all?
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