Make money from recycling

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

I read the article, and the DM readers letters, and it all falls into "clickbait" IMO

Probably worth recycling the article on the 1st April

Yep. Read the OP and it states "Our former MSE staff Rebecca Rutt wrote this Daily Mail article", indicating to us that "oooh it's somebody like us". Only it's not. That statement's clickbait in itself.

She's actually an actual journalist; did a degree in journy-stuff... been a journalist, is a journalist, works as a journalist.

So, clickbait through and through.

VfM4meplse

Actually I do have some glass ramekins - I bought some RTC desserts years ago when Gü was new to the market, gave the desserts away and asked for the ramekins back. They are just the right size for snacks served with drinks .

There's no way in tarnation they're going to be recycled, far too useful!

Hermia

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Actually I do have some glass ramekins - I bought some RTC desserts years ago when Gü was new to the market, gave the desserts away and asked for the ramekins back. They are just the right size for snacks served with drinks .

There's no way in tarnation they're going to be recycled, far too useful!

I have some Gü ones too. I use them when cooking to as I like to measure my ingredients out first and they are great for that.

The Tesco near me used to have a recycling machine where you got points for each item you put in. It was great for a while, but they cut the points value as people were apparently cutting up their recycling so they could get multiple points for each item.

I find with so many of these types of these articles that the people who would make decent money are the ones who spent out a lot to be able to do that! I just don't buy enough wine bottles or fancy desserts to make this worthwhile. It's like when there was a spate of 'I made ££££££ from cashback sites' articles cropping up in the tabloids a while back. When you realised how much these people were spending to make that much cashback you kinda wondered whether they could have saved more money not buying all that stuff in the first place!

THIRZAH

I took some glass ramekins down to the church hall. We use them as sugar basins if we have a tea or coffee morning and want to put sugar on each table. Also we put night lights in them for evening events.

JIL

Around the corner someone has dumped a bin bag full of clothes and bedding, it has been there a week. Perhaps I could load it up in my car and pop to cash for clothes for 92p or thereabouts.
However, tomorrow is bin collection day, so tonight I walked the dog, picked up the bin liner full of clothes and popped it in a bin awaiting collection.
Tidy street, no money made but the satisfaction of not seeing it as I drive to work will be my reward.

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Can't remember a time I ever had many champagne corks I have two indoors in the drawer both of which have a silver coin tucked into them They were from my DDs Christenings, one in 1968 and one in 1970 I can remember my late OH cutting through the top and putting a half a crown in there wedged tightly and him saying The baby will always have a bit of silver for luck and never be penniless :):)Today those half a crowns are worth more to me as a keepsake just for the memory it invokes

Dclutterchique

I agree with everybody else that it would take up too much time and storage space to make it worthwhile for most people to do on their own. However, it could be possible, in some cases, for groups of people or organisations to make this idea work

When I was a member of the local Play Group (in the early '70's) the parents/volunteers got together and arranged a group collection of their old newspapers and when they had a large enough quantity they took it to a paper recycling plant and sold it to raise funds. As individual households it would have taken forever, but as a group it didn't take nearly as long. Unfortunately, they were only able to collect two batches (each equivalent to a lock-up garage full) as after that everyone got on the recycling band wagon and the price of scrap paper bottomed out and it wasn't worth the cost of the fuel. So, you need perfect timing (either through luck or skill) to hit the market highs, or access to a recyclable commodity that holds a fairly consistent price over time.

Caterina

I have two glass ramekins from Marks puddings that I bought to share with DH when he was only a casual boyfriend, in 1987. I have other ramekins as well, accumulated over the years, mainly from charity shops, but those two are still around somewhere in the cupboard. Ramekins are very useful as non-plastic containers for small amounts of leftover food, sliced lemon, tea strainers, I love the little blighters!

Serendipitious

I can sort of see the point regarding jam jars - Lakeland sell them new and charge rather a lot.

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/in-the-kitchen/preserving-and-make-your-own/preserving-and-pickling/jars-and-bottles/

But as for the other things on the list, there's no point in accumulating junk for the sake of a few pennies.

A local charity used to collect the plastic tops from milk containers and many people supported that - one lady I knew had all her friends collecting them too and used to donate carrier bags full of them. But it all stopped because the recycling place that paid for them put up the minimum weight to something ridiculous which made it non-viable.