Recycle Can And Metals Scrap For Kids Pocket Money
July 30th, 2007 by MoniesHow to recycle waste for profit is what interests me. Oh I know there are virtuous eco-system considerations, and you can also save a lot of money with computer recycling for instance, but it is the money saved and earned that interests me.
Recycling Kids
No, I’m not proposing putting them in the compost heap – I’m suggesting that they should be shown how to earn some extra pocket money. For instance, they can recycle can and other aluminum scrap.
For slightly older kids you can try recycling containers made of wood, and the palettes that bricks are delivered on to building sites. Remove the nails carefully, and make simple wooden toys that your kids can practice their salesmanship on. Oh, it won’t make them a fortune, but it will teach them things that will be useful all their lives.
Teenagers With Utility Vehicles
This idea is great for teenagers because it encourages them to be active and use their ingenuity to recycle parts from one computer into another. It also teaches them salesmanship which will help them for the rest of their lives.
Those are also the disadvantages for me. I’m too old.
Just drive round when stuff has been put out at the verge, waiting for the annual rubbish collection, and collect computers. Take parts from one computer and add to another till you have a good working computer, then sell it.
For myself I would be more interested in the money-saving aspects. If I was lucky enough to scrounge enough parts to get a fast motherboard assembled in a good mainframe, it could save me a grand or two.
Teenagers And Fit Adults:
You make a profit by buying cheap and selling dear. Right?!
How would it be to buy for nothing – as in recycling? You can’t beat that – or can you? If you are fit enough and have a small truck or utility vehicle you can put leaflets in local letter-boxes offering to cart away their old furniture etc. that is just taking up valuable storage space. You charge them $25 and make it clear to them that you will only take good quality stuff.
What have you done? You’ve got your stuff for less than nothing! They are paying you to take it away. What about salesmanship and where to recycle? There are used furniture shops that will buy all the furniture that you take to them without any salesmanship. Scrap buyers will take all your metal scrap. Again, they have to make a profit on the price they pay you.
Oh, if you are a good salesman you could get more than the miserable price that they will give you, but remember you have been paid to cart the stuff away. If you were a good salesman you would be holding down a lucrative job, instead of doing all the hard physical work of loading furniture onto your vehicle.
You can sell smaller and more valuable items on eBay.
Recycling waste is a matter of opinion. Waste is the opinion of the person getting rid of such things as metals scrap. But someone else will probably want to buy it.
Home Recycling
The idea is to buy nasty houses, improve them and sell for a profit – a very big profit.
1. Look for houses only in a good neighborhood.
2. In the good neighborhood, find houses destroyed by tennants. You know the sort of thing – plasterboard walls kicked in (they respect their feet too much to kick brick walls) and excrement thrown all over the place.
3. Don’t buy houses with serious structural damage. Plasterboard can easily be replaced, and so can walls and carpets and doors and light fittings.
4. Ask several estate agents how to increase the selling price of your property. They get a commission for sales based on the value of the sale, so they are eager to help you.
How to recycle waste for enormous profit.
So far I’ve told you about waste recycling ideas that have the following disadvantages
* Salesmanship needed
* Physical fitness needed
* Utility vehicle and drivers licence needed
* Technical skill needed
Author: Ian McAllister McAllister
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