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submitted 10 months ago by Mee@reddthat.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] Trex202@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I'm so glad these corporations are giving us single use cans for the opportunity to connect with nature and earn a little income.

[-] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Of all the things you can be angry to corporations, bottle and can recycling is the wrong one.

[-] Trex202@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

No it's not. It shouldn't be up to the consumer to recycle their products. They are shifting blame onto the people

[-] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The corporation cannot walk up to you and handhold you into recycling it. That is absolutely an individual responsibility.

[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 points 10 months ago

Most of the time they take the cans and bottles out of people's recycling bin

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

don't make this sound too good, so ppl flinging bottles into nature don't feel like benefactors 😆

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