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[-] BadAdvice@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Something very screwy going on with the numbers in this article. Says this family made 7.6 million dollars recycling 178 tons of cans and bottles over 8 months. Then it says another group was caught doing basically the same thing the year before but made over 10 million dollars recycling only 9 tons of cans and bottles. Wtf?

[-] ma11en@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

It's not just the recycled weight but the 5-10 cents per item which bumps up the value.

[-] Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Worked at a recycle depot once and paid out $200 for a bag of 5 hour energy drinks (RIP heart). The same bag of cans would have been around $10~$15.

I also became interested, this article includes sale price of alluminum for 2019, some implications of China's restrictions from 2018, and what the Ont. government was aledgedgly doing to undermine recycling.

[-] BadAdvice@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

No I get that, but if they're just scrapping the aluminum then they wouldn't be in trouble for scamming the CV tax. Only way 9 tons of aluminum or glass is worth 10 mil is with a whole mess of cv fraud, but 178 tons of scrap aluminum and glass for 7 and a half mil? Sounds about right. Something is very weird with these numbers.

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