I read an article the other day on TheStreet.com on new ways to make money from recycling. I am a big advocate of recycling and think every family should participate. Unfortunately, the town in which my family lives in does not currently have a curb side recycling program. I did not even consider this when we decided to purchase our home in a new development in this town. Instead of offering curb side recycling, the town has about 4 transfer stations where residents can bring in their recycled materials along with trash and large items like stoves, washes & dryers, etc.
Since moving in, we have been stockpiling aluminum cans, glass bottles, newspapers, etc. in our garage and then take a trip once per month to unload our recycled materials at the transfer station. This has become a cumbersome process as we use up a lot of extra garage space with these materials. In addition, we have to sort through the materials each month before loading them into our car to ensure no little critters have crawled into the boxes so they don’t end up staying in our vehicle. All that being said, we still feel so strongly about recycling these materials, that we go through this process each month.
Instead of going through this dirty and tedious process each and every month, I have set out on a mission to find alternative ways to recycle our household items. That is when I came across the New Ways to Make Money Off Recycling article which I earlier mentioned. The article provides the following list of companies that will actually pay you money for recycling products -
1 – RecycleBank
2 – Greenphone
3 – MyBoneYard
4 – Feed Your Player
5 – Terracycle
Do you recycle? Have you ever used one of the recycling programs listed above? Do you know of any other recycling programs that pay you money that are not on the list above?
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Interesting!! I am going to have to check these out – from my first look it appears I can get $8 from My Bone Yard for my old cell. I’ll let you know how it goes. Thanks for the links!!
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Katy – Please send an email to passivefamilyincome @ gmail dot com with the information. I am actually very interested in the BANS program as I have done some research on it already.
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Dawn – That is great! I don’t think I can use any of these sites yet, but thought it was a good collection. We have an old computer I am trying to get rid of, but it doesn’t really work.
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Our family utilized the curbside recycling program with our city. I realize we are giving away money, but I tried to keep the cans and bottles, but it got messy and smelly for us, especially in the summertime.
I want to checkout the greenphone site as I have many old cell phones that need to find a good home.
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