Earn a Green Living: Recycle for Money
Finding a great job in today’s market takes a bit of ingenuity, and green jobs are becoming hotter than ever. Did you know that you can actually make money by recycling ordinary household materials like metal, glass, paper, small electronics, and much more?
You can earn a green living by focusing in on things that you can recycle for money, collecting them, and turning them in to the appropriate agency for cash.
While earning money for recycling, you not only help yourself, you also help the planet and help to keep your state and city clean and beautiful.
Here are some of the top ways to earn a green living by specializing in things that you can recycle for money:
1 Paper
Before you start collecting paper, check the market for recycled paper in your specific city or county. In recent years, the market for recycled paper has fallen off significantly, mostly because so many households have started recycling paper as a matter of routine. The market is so glutted in fact that in some areas the city actually loses money by encouraging paper recycling: That is, it costs the city more to recycle the paper than it would to throw it away.
2 Glass
Recycling glass for cash is labor intensive but it can be lucrative. Ask at various businesses if you can have their discarded glass containers, and then invest in a glass crusher. You can watch a video on how the crusher works at YouTube. One good place to buy a glass crusher is CompactorsInc . The advantage of owning a crusher is that you can store much more glass than you could without one. Keep in mind that you will need a truck to transport the glass you collect and crush as well.
3 Cans
The demand for recycled aluminum is usually pretty high, but you need to know which cans fetch the highest amount of money in your specific area. In the U.S. alone, 163 millions cans are recycled on a daily basis. Tin cans are not usually in as high demand as aluminum ones, and they are heavy and tend to have more of a smell from the contents. If you live in a state that places a deposit fee on aluminum drink cans, you are in luck, but keep in mind that there will be a limit (at most sites) of how many cans you can recycle at one time. So you’ll have to make multiple trips.
4 Small Electronics
How many people do you know who just toss out their old laptops, external hard drives, calculators, monitors, or other small electronics the minute they become obsolete?
You can turn these in for money at Gazelle.com and the money can be substantial. You can get up to $100 or even more for a discarded laptop, $50 for a handheld device, $15 for a broken cell phone, and much more. Gazelle sends you a shipper once you get a quote for your small electronic item, then cuts you a check or deposits money into your PayPal account once you return it to them.
5 Cell Phones
You can turn in several cell phones at a time for cash at CellForCash , and if y...
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