Central Coast man earns house deposit by collecting 450,000 cans and bottles. - eviltoast
Collecting 450,000 cans and bottles helped Damien save a house deposit
www.abc.net.au
A NSW man has gone to great lengths to cash in on recycling, returning almost half a million cans over seven years to save for his first home.

In short:

Damian Gordon has bought a house using savings earned from recycling bottles and cans.

Each eligible bottle or can recycled at a Return and Earn depository results in a 10-cent refund.

What’s next?

Mr Gordon says he will continue to return cans and bottles to help pay off his mortgage

  • Trex202@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    2 days ago

    I’m so glad these corporations are giving us single use cans for the opportunity to connect with nature and earn a little income.

    • MrFinnbean@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      Of all the things you can be angry to corporations, bottle and can recycling is the wrong one.

      • Trex202@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        2 days ago

        No it’s not. It shouldn’t be up to the consumer to recycle their products. They are shifting blame onto the people

        • MrFinnbean@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          As a person who lives in country where bottle recycling works i disagree. Also it should not be the corporations who makes the rules, but the goverment.

          Every store needs to accept every bottle and can and the system needs to be uniform between all the companies. Last year from all the sold bottles and cans 97% were returned to bottle recycler system, not because corporations shifted their responcibility to consumers, but because the goverment has ordered the companies to make recycling efficient, easy and worthwhile for the consumer.