Today I went to the recycling center with a car full of stuff. 34 pounds of glass, a few pounds of aluminum cans, and a whole lot of plastic. Total earned: $9.18. It didn’t feel like all that much given how long it took to accumulate that many containers, sort them, and take them down to the center.
We sort most of the stuff as we put it in our recycling center (a container for each plastic type sits below our stairs in the garage) and the glass gets sorted by color before we head off to the center.
I was disappointed that some of the plastic earned either $0.00 per pound or was considered trash. So much for saving the earth. I don’t know what we’ll do with our $9.18. Mrs. Frugal suggested it will pay for part of our dinner tonight (we’re going out with a coupon to one of our favorite local restaurants).
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be glad you are “getting” money for your recycling efforts – we have to pay to dispose of ours…