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Tips and Warnings. Things You'll Need. Related Articles. Article Summary. Part 1. Learn if your state or country has container deposit laws.
Container deposit laws, also known as bottle bills, require beverages to be sold with a refundable deposit for each container. You're charged the deposit for each container on top of the beverage price. You will lose the deposit fee if you do not return the containers. You could also return littered containers or those given to you by others who chose not to redeem them themselves and have a positive cash flow.
There are ten states with a state container deposit law. California: 5 cents up to 24oz, 10 cents over 24oz. In California, you're entitled to opt for quantity counting up to 50 pieces. Oregon and Michigan: 10 cents on all containers subject to deposit. Vermont: 5 cents in general.
Containers may only be redeemed in the state where the deposit was paid. A large quantity of them can still be sold to a recycling facility by the weight for the material value.
All rights reserved. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc. Locate nearby recycling centers by searching online. Learn which items can be redeemed. The ten states with bottle deposit will accept aluminum cans, plastic and glass bottles from soda and beer.
Specific rules and applicable rules can vary considerably between states. Part 2. Start by collecting items in your own home. Instead of just tossing cans and bottles in the trash or recycling, start a separate bin where you collect items you can redeem for a deposit.
Although this type of facility is commonly referred to as a recycling plant, it only handles part of the recycling process.
Instead, it sorts, recovers, and discards. In this case, the materials sifted include glass, metal, cartons and some plastics. It discards the rest. This is partly due to user error, a common problem which occurs when people place unrecyclable materials into recycling bins.
At the MRF, recyclables change hands from the city to the waste world—most often to private-sector companies. Sims, in turn, pays the city a percentage of sales based on monthly national rates. A giant crane, dwarfed by the mountains of discarded material in the enormous room, picks up the waste, tossing it onto a conveyer belt.
From the vast floor, recycling hopefuls move along an intricate automated assembly line of conveyers, tumblers, metal detectors, and even a few human sorters, in order to be categorized by commodity. The conveyor-belt system sorts glass first, within two minutes. Metals are then extracted by magnets or other means.
Thick and unruly plastics 2 such as high-density polyethylene HDPE—a fancy name for your laundry-detergent containers—get compacted into bulky wads of color, then restrained in bales by rope. And finally, used plastic beverage bottles 1 are aggregated into a stream. From start to finish, a plastic bottle spends fewer than 30 minutes on a Sims conveyer belt. A bottle binned yesterday, quite possibly already here, will be through the recovery system in a day.
Single-use plastic bottles, made of polyethylene terephthalate PET , are loved by MRFs because they are easy to resell. Bottles compress easily into 1,pound bales of mostly clear, some green plastic, caps poking out and labels mashed. Greendisk is a similar mail-in service that accepts e-waste for recycling. No matter where you recycle your e-waste, keep in mind that the recyclers are following the standards laid out by the e-Stewards Initiative.
While you can always resell your used books or CDs on the web or at your local used book or CD store, another great way to get exactly the book or CD you want is by using a swapping service such as PaperBackSwap or BookMooch. A variety of convenient online outlets make it easy to resell your gently-worn clothing. Many secondhand or consignment shops will buy used clothing and furniture. Stores like Buffalo Exchange , which has locations across the country, will give you cash or store credit to use toward the latest new-to-you outfit.
Thanks to innovative entrepreneurs who are working to find new ways to make products out of wrappers formerly known as waste, there are more and more opportunities to both reduce your personal garbage output and make a little extra cash.
Terracycle has set up brigades all over the country that allow groups and nonprofits to collect everything from energy bar wrappers to empty scotch tape rolls and turn them in for cash.
When collecting aluminum cans for profit, crushing them saves a lot of space for storing even more cans. A common way to store these cans is in a commercial trash can, or a plastic bag. Then you just have to bring them to your local recycling or scrap metal center to get paid.
Cash it! Returning glass and plastic bottles to recycling facilities and stores where they offer bottle return can net you a decent amount of coin. Why recycle ink cartridges? That means your office recycling program can start saving on printer costs! Cardboard boxes are a necessity for moving items from place to place.
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