Central Coast man earns house deposit by collecting 450,000 cans and bottles.
Central Coast man earns house deposit by collecting 450,000 cans and bottles.
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
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half a million cans over seven years
If the cans are only $.10/ea, then 450k only netted him $45k. It took him seven years to earn just enough to pay for the deposit, not even the house.
Real Boring Dystopia Shit
I mean he also has a full time job, he made 45k in 7 years off his side hustle.
I do agree that it should be easier to afford a home. Also bottle deposits need to rise. They've been stagnant for over a decade where I live. It's like a 2-in-1 city cleaning program and beer money program for bums.
The guy paid for a down payment on a house with a hobby. That's cool. I'm jealous.
He paid for a down payment with seven years of manual labor earning less than a living wage.
You can absolutely make $4ph on your hobby, I believe in you.
I pay for my hobbies. A lot of money.
I'm
jealousenvious.
You’re out in nature while helping to clean up the environment and also making a little income.
Better than just working “for the man” don’t you think? There’s also far worse you can do with your spare time.
I'm so glad these corporations are giving us single use cans for the opportunity to connect with nature and earn a little income.
Of all the things you can be angry to corporations, bottle and can recycling is the wrong one.
No it's not. It shouldn't be up to the consumer to recycle their products. They are shifting blame onto the people
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.
The corporation cannot walk up to you and handhold you into recycling it. That is absolutely an individual responsibility.
You’re out in nature while helping to clean up
You're out in nature... IN AUSTRALIA! He's risking his life being out in nature picking up garbage.
Most of the time they take the cans and bottles out of people's recycling bin
don't make this sound too good, so ppl flinging bottles into nature don't feel like benefactors 😆