RE: Odds & Ends
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Man. If they get rid of cash, I'll have to give people beer cans directly. I better invest in a bigger cart.
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Man. If they get rid of cash, I'll have to give people beer cans directly. I better invest in a bigger cart.
If they are not empty, many people would accept them. :D
In Germany, all empty beer cans are worth quite a bit of money. Three empty cans are worth like about one US Dollar. Same for bottles, especially plastic bottles. When you drink a beer in the streets (which is perfectly legal) you just put the empty can or bottle under a public bin. It will always be picked up by people specialized on that.
Then I should go to Germany then.
I am a Hungarian, currently living in Hungary with a low (approximately $250 USD per month) pension-like income (because of my multiple disabilities). Nowadays I also work in a 4 hours part time job, but my income still does not reach the local minimum wage, which would be approximately 550 USD per month.
Well, as a Hungarian you are EU and free to move to Germany. Collecting cans and bottles can be a side-income for many people here. But with minimum wage even McDonalds easily pays over 1.2k EURO per month.
Where I live in Canada we pay a deposit which gets returned to us when we take the recycling in ourselves. Leaving a can or bottle laying around is no different than leaving coins on the ground or in the trash.
And yet millions do it everyday, while coin diggers search for them.
Absolutely. So it's hard to feel guilty after throwing one out the window, unless it hits a beaver of course.
I always make sure to empty them. Just doing my part to save the world.