Cash for Cans
Many Australians will remember the ‘Cash for Cans’ schemes of the 1970s. These were simply sites where a bag of aluminium cans could be taken, weighed and sold back to the manufacturer. Around 20c per kilo, from memory.
Easter was a great time of year financially, with many people collecting enough cans from the Royal Easter Show to more than pay for the cost of admission. Beautiful.
Although the recycling situation in Australia is generally pretty good (with schemes such as the 3 bin one becoming common), there are still a number of areas that could be improved. One of these is the reintroduction of schemes such as ‘Cash for Cans’.
I wonder though, how many people would simply use the numerous public recycling bins as their source?
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- Water recycling at the Bird's Nest
- Shower Monitor
- Blog Action Day
- Solar-powered mouse
- The bins are shrinking
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