How to Recycle For Money

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Recycling can be good for the earth, and at the same time, good for your wallet. If you need to make extra cash, consider selling things from around the house, aluminum cans and even any old cars or parts you may have. For more, try these money-making recycling suggestions.

Things You'll Need

• desire to recycle
• initiative
• time
• energy

Instructions

1. Recycle things from around your house, including toys, clothing, furniture and vehicles, and sell them at a garage sale. Go through your house and put aside anything you no longer love, use or fit into. Clean and repair, if needed, anything that you'll be selling; you'll likely get more. Price your items and then start advertising your garage sale. You'll make money and others will get a good deal on items you no longer need.

2. Another way to recycle your used, but no longer needed items, is by selling them through eBay or on Craigslist. Price them to sell like you would at a traditional garage sale. Make sure they are clean and in good condition.

3. Recycle your old cell phones through flipswap.com. The site gives you cash for the phone you no longer use. The site then recycles the phones by selling those it can in areas around the world that may not have access to the newest technology. The newer the better when it comes to the phones the site purchases, but it accepts most kinds of cell phones.

4. Recycle and sell all your cans and bottles to recyclers. You can also collect bottles and cans alongside roads, in campgrounds and in city parks. Typically, you'll need quite a few to make a lot of money, but over time, your efforts can pay off and you'll helping to clean up the planet.

5. You can recycle old vehicles, even if they don't run, to someone who buys old cars. In many cases, you can find buyers online at sites like Craigslist. You can also sell the car parts yourself, if you are mechanically inclined and know how to take cars apart.

6. Recycle scrap metal. Copper, brass, aluminum, among other metals, can be sold to recyclers, perhaps the same ones that buy aluminum cans. Call the scrap metal dealers for information on what they buy, how much they pay and how you are to deliver the product.

Tips & Warnings

• Land fills are not the place for perfectly good and still useable items. Sell them and make some of the money your paid for them back, while helping the planet just a bit.

References

• flipswap: Home
• RecyclingCenters.org: Top 50 Things To Recycle and Reuse