Every day Redwood City residents create an appalling amount of waste which ends up in landfills and incinerators, or dumped into oceans and rivers. But instead if all that garbage was to be recycled, it would do immense good to the planet we call home. Another advantage of recycling is that it can actually help you earn some cash. Not sure how? Here’s how you can turn trash into cash!
Recycle and Earn Money
- Have you ever noticed the CRV value printed on a beverage container? Every beverage container whether it’s glass, plastic, or aluminum, has a CRV value which stands for California Redemption Value. You can trade in your empty bottles and cans for a fee at a recycling center – 5 cents for containers less than 24 oz., and 10 cents for 24 oz. and more. If you have a stash of soda cans or beer bottles waiting to be disposed, take them down to a recycling center and get paid for doing so!
- Another commodity that’ll fetch in a decent sum of money is metal scrap. For instance, you can strike a good bargain at the Sims Metal yard in Redwood City if you have a sizeable amount of scrap metal. Look them up at here. Similarly, there are other scrap yards such as Sierra Pacific Recycling and One World Recycling are other scrap yards which pay you for metal recycling.
- Electronic waste, considered to be highly dangerous, should also be recycled. Most scrap yards such as Sims Metal accept electronic waste, but it’s better to call up and get the details about what exactly each scrap yard accepts so you don’t have to make multiple trips.
- The Rethink Waste organization’s Redwood City facility has offered to buy clean cardboards from customers if they’re large in volume. If you have a large enough volume of cardboard, recycle it and get paid in return.
- Buffalo Exchange has stores in the Bay Area where you can trade in your used clothes such as designer jeans and old tees for cash on the spot.
- You could even put up items for sale on EBay and Craigslist; items that you otherwise might throw away. Just because it’s of no use to you doesn’t mean it’s completely useless. What’s trash for you could be treasure for someone else.
If you look around carefully around you, you’ll find a lot of things that can be recycled once their usefulness is over. If something is broken, think of how it can be fixed instead of dumping it. If you have no use for it, recycle it. It may not necessarily bring in cash, but recycle it nevertheless for the good of the planet. It’s the need of the hour.