How do you recycle items (bottles, cans, jars, etc.) for money?

Question

People have mentioned recycling machines at grocery stores and other places. I have never noticed them.

Answer 1

There are 12 states with bottle deposit refunds. You know, those things where you bring in your bottles and they give you money? Here they are:

California: 5 or 10 cents
Connecticut: 5 cents
Delaware: 5 cents
Hawaii: 5 cents
Iowa: 5 cents, also applies to wine bottles
Maine: 5 cents, also applies to fruit juice and bottled water, 15 cents for some wine bottles
Massachusetts: 5 cents
Michigan: 10 cents
New York: 5 cents
Oregon: 5 cents
Vermont: 5 cents

The northeast seems to have the highest amount of states with a refund policy.

Source: Wikipedia

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You should always recycle Newspapers and what you want to do for earning more $$$$ is that you can find a lot of Newspapers in the Trash Can that a lot of people don't use what i do is i get a Big Trash Bag and i start stacking as many Newspapers as i can make sure that if you go to the Recycling Center the person that works there has to weigh it and it depends on how many Newspapers you have here are my top 5 ideas of what you can do to earn more $$$$. 1. Get 2 or 3 to 4 Trash Bags in your house 2. Bring some Gloves for your hands so that way you won't get any germs from the trash can 3. Make sure to separate all of your Bottles,Cans,Glass,Newspapers. 4. Gather everything with you and put it in your Car,Truck,Van,Bicycle 5. Bring your I.D. just incase

Answer 4

The recycle centers are usually in a separate center off to the side of the main entrance of the store. For example, in Greenfield, at Foster's, Big Y, and Stop and Shop, if you're facing the entrance, the recycle centers are to the left. There are big machines in the room. You put your cans or bottles in, and the machine crushes them. Then it will either drop coins for you or spit out a slip showing the amount you are owed for the bottles, and you take the slip to a cashier to get the money. Good luck!

Answer 5

Some states-- Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, and Connecticut offer a nickel per returned can, glass bottle and plastic bottle. Michigan offers a dime. One pays the deposit when they buy the drinks to encourage the return for recycling. For example: I buy a 12 pack of soda for $2.50 and pay the extra $1.20 (Michigan) or $.60 in the other states for the deposit. If I want my $1.20 or $.60 back, I have to save the cans and return them to the bottle return machines, usually at the store at which I purchased the soda. Though with some brands, like Coke and Pepsi, I could return them to almost any store. If it's a store brand, or more exclusive to one store (like the international beer my husband would buy at the one liquor store that would sell that beer) it had to go to that store.

My father's family is from New York State and my husband and I lived in Michigan for a year (August 2006 to last month; We're back in Ohio) so I'm familiar with the program. My husband and I still have many deposit bottles and cans that we plan on taking back when we visit friends. (We were there so my husband could do his year of internship work for grad school.) It would be silly not to and it would help to indirectly pay for the trip, as we're getting "our" money back.

I think it's a great program, even for a nickel a can, I see many people partake in New York. I wish more states would adopt this to encourage recycling.

My father-in-law saves their soda cans and takes them to a scrap metal place for x per pound. (They drink more soda in a week than what my husband and I do in a month, although I cut down from one soda a day to one a week at the most since my pregnancy. Mostly, though, I drink either diet Sierra Mist or diet Hansen's natural ginger ale for any heartburn I might have if it gets too annoying.) If it weren't for the few cents a pound my FIL gets for the soda cans and the paper drives his church does, they wouldn't recycle at all. Sad, really. (My husband was raised in a family of pretty much non-recyclers. They even use foam or paper plates for every meal so they don't have to wash as many dishes. I grew up in family who recycled, reused, etc. Fortunately, I've rubbed off on my husband to the point where he surprises and teaches me now.)

Anyway as for the rest of the recycleables, it would be nice get some money for it, but I just do it because it's better than letting it sit in a landfill forever. That's enough of a "payoff".

Answer 6

Some towns have DIY aluminum can recycling depots ~ but in our state (and possibly yours), you have to bring recyclables to a recycling center if you want to be paid.

How much you get paid for recycling all depends on the demand. In our state, we don't get paid for glass and only a paltry half a penny per pound for newspaper and cardboard. What I would suggest is calling the nearest recycling center by your home, and asking what they buy and how much. It's been our experience that collecting copper, aluminum cans, and re-bond carpet pad are worth turning in for cash ~ but everything else is best set in the curbside recycling.

Answer 7

check around your local area. in my area there are reccling centers however there are few of them and its at grocery parking lots where its mainly a hassle because u have to wait in a long line to get your recyclables processed, get your check, go into the store and cash it in. for me i just dont buy much beverage drinks especially water to avoid the crv tax and use reusable water bottles and if i happen to end up with bottles and cans i just put it in the recycling bin or give it people collecting them since they need the money anyways.

Answer 8

Look online through a search and find crafts to make and them sell them. There is one idea were you take a diamond tipped drill bit, keep the bottle wet and drill a hole about an inch from the bottom of the bottle.
Then take a set of Christmas lights and push through the hole. Decorate the bottle and the sell them on eBay or to friends and family.

Answer 9

You can save your aluminum cans and take them to a scrap metal center. Check your local phone book for any that are located around you. Here, we get around 50 - 60 cents per pound of clean, dry, crushed cans.

Answer 10

It’s Friday brunch time and you simply can’t stop going back pertaining to seconds. But hang on! Stop for just a minute and suck on an extra strong mint. The flavour will certainly put you off that 3rd plate of chicken korma/roast beef/sushi medley.