Nikitas wrote:So, start a recycling business. Clean up and make money too!
Tim Drayton wrote:I see a dishevelled elderly man walking around the old centre of Limassol late most afternoons collecting all the aluminium drink cans he can find in the litter bins. Is he a complete 'nutter' or does he know something we don't?
Nikitas wrote:Tim,
Aluminum (aluminium for the English) is a valuable metal. Prices fluctuate, but last time I looked it was about 2000 dollars a ton.
During a football match two years ago I calculated that in Syntagma square in the middle of Athens British fans had thrown over 3 tons of aluminum in the bins. Some "dumb" gypsies were there gathering the cans.
When scrap prices rose Greece suddenly got a bunch of recycling companies, enough to merit a new section in the Yellow Pages titled "metal recycling".
To paraphrase a zoology professor "if you want to save anything put a price tag on its face".
In Thailand the recycling centers actually PAY those that bring in scrap, be it paper, metal, plastic or other material. In Europe we are trying to bully people into recycling and it is not working. Money is a much better motivator than guilt or fear.
Nikitas wrote:Tim,
Aluminum (aluminium for the English) is a valuable metal. Prices fluctuate, but last time I looked it was about 2000 dollars a ton.
During a football match two years ago I calculated that in Syntagma square in the middle of Athens British fans had thrown over 3 tons of aluminum in the bins. Some "dumb" gypsies were there gathering the cans.
When scrap prices rose Greece suddenly got a bunch of recycling companies, enough to merit a new section in the Yellow Pages titled "metal recycling".
To paraphrase a zoology professor "if you want to save anything put a price tag on its face".
In Thailand the recycling centers actually PAY those that bring in scrap, be it paper, metal, plastic or other material. In Europe we are trying to bully people into recycling and it is not working. Money is a much better motivator than guilt or fear.
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