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
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.
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.
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 😆
Man knows what he's doing with that shirt design
He uses that shirt to lay flat on the floor of the roller rink arcade and hide until after hours. All the games are free then.
And you bad dog broadcast this secret loudly, and the competition for this dear guy is rocketing high! :)
True, but let's be honest. There can't be more than 2 or 3 people who will stick with it for more than a week or a month at the outside.
It’s central coast, not cold even in the winter. #paid-for-exercise :)
Now we know what is more profitable:
https://lemmy.world/post/27585832
Forget batteries man! Bottles is where its at!
That program should have been Retearn instead of Return to Earn
That’s an average of 176 cans per day. I’m all for recycling but that just feels like a second job
Genuinely, is that an issue if it is one?
Not at all. I’m just wondering how much time he spent getting those cans, but if he enjoyed the process, then all the better