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[which_chick]

I took some more recycling in to Mile Level today. This was a five-gallon bucket of copper, assorted pipes, fittings, and stripped wire.



I got seventy dollars and fifty cents, which is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. People keeping track will note with interest that I'm now over a hundred dollars for the year. Huzzah! It'll never become a job, this recycling thing, but it's quick, easy, and good for the environment, to boot. Plus, now I have money for my crack habit. :)

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[galena417.livejournal.com]

That's pretty good. I'm not sure we have anything similar here - we have regular recycling pick-up with our trash pickup (generally cans/bottles/plastic/paper).

The last time I took something to the recycling/waste depot we had to pay to drop it off.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Probably, somewhere in the poor, near-industrial section of town, you have a We Buy Scrap Metal place of some sort. If you're really interested, you might check the phone book to see if there's anything listed in there. It's not the sort of business that you will find in places where people have real jobs because people who make good wages do not generally spend their free time gathering up unwanted or unattended semiprecious metals (copper, brass, aluminum) to turn them in for beer/drug money.

Where I live, there is no curbside recycling program with trash pickup. All the recycling going on around here is at the personal level and it generally involves money. Saving the planet is great and all, but to get people to recycle of their own accord, nothing works as well as money. I know a fair number of people who recycle their aluminum cans (at Mile Level or other scrap metal place) because they can get money for them. I do not know anyone locally who recycles glass or paper (because the payout for that is on the order of pennies-per-ton, assuming you can find a buyer).