Bottle Bank Arcade

I LOVE THIS! I'm all for recycling and this is a great idea. It's true that people are more likely to do something they should be doing in the first place if it's fun.
 
People dig through our garbage all day long looking for stuff like that to sell to recyclers, even though scrap prices are really down right now.

We have those bulky LA city cans and so they are always at street level.

A few weeks ago some guy pulled up across the street to take a used mattress. He said he can get 55 cents worth of scrap metal out of it. He and his wife drive around LA in a truck all day seven days a week and make $70-$80 a day, before expenses.

People are desperate.
 
People dig through our garbage all day long looking for stuff like that to sell to recyclers, even though scrap prices are really down right now.

We have those bulky LA city cans and so they are always at street level.

A few weeks ago some guy pulled up across the street to take a used mattress. He said he can get 55 cents worth of scrap metal out of it. He and his wife drive around LA in a truck all day seven days a week and make $70-$80 a day, before expenses.

People are desperate.

There used to be a guy on base (one of the sandcrabs) that would drive around on his lunch breaks and collect cigarette boxes for the Camel Cash and Miles (which they don't do any more... :mad:). He's also collect the scrap copper from around base, made decent money and had more useless Camel products than anyone you'll ever meet. He made out big a few years ago when they redid the grounding lines (you have to ground the jets when they're parked or they'll build up enough static to knock you out), he got all the cables they had buried... said he spent months cutting it up into the right sized pieces for scrap... helped him buy a new truck so he could collect MORE stuff. That guy was awesome... wonder what he's doing now...

Anywho, cool video. I'm going to agree with those guys that made the bottle collector, you have to make stuff fun these days, we have enough mondaine tasks in our daily lives. Adding a little flair to something simple turns it from a chore into something you, at least, don't mind doing.
 
In college my buddy and I attached milkcrates to our bikes and every night would ride through all of the construction sites and pick up the aluminum cans. We would stock pile them in our back yard until we had a decent amount. Then we would sell them, usually would get about 125-150 bucks, and then we would get a keg and have a party. It was good exercise and a nice way to fund our parties.
 
Pretty cool, but no prizes or money though? I'd imagine most people only use it once for the novelty value.
 
Genius! If it gave out redemption tickets or tokens might help even more.
 
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