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Took a trip up to peyia today, was pretty disappointed...

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Postby Nikitas » Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:37 pm

So, start a recycling business. Clean up and make money too!
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Postby Tim Drayton » Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:42 pm

Nikitas wrote:So, start a recycling business. Clean up and make money too!


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?
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Postby Nikitas » Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:49 pm

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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Postby Tim Drayton » Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:18 pm

This old man also appears to engage in a kind of one-man chatista as he walks along. Judging by the amused and embarrased looks that he engenders in passers-by, he must be including a lot of blue language!
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Postby TALISMAN » Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:07 pm

There is a lady that wanders about in Paphos, always has a sack of whatever on her back, she walks all over the area and ends up in Emba, begs for money and gives you a good cursing if not forthcoming with any money, she certainly covers a large area
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Postby SSBubbles » Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:15 pm

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?


I think his wife scours my area!
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Postby Raymanoff » Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:37 pm

set an example and start cleaning it yourself... they do all these charity walks in UK time to time... get all your friends and do a garbage walk next time, picking up all the garbage.
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Postby B25 » Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:14 pm

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,

As a kid I used to collect copper (from cables, pipes) and aluminium (pot,pans, cans etc) and sell them for scrap. We were to young to do the deaal so I used to get my olfer bro to take them in. The mechanism is already there, it is just that people don't bother.
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Postby CBBB » Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:07 pm

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.


Long time since you looked mate! I know that at the moment it isn't worth recycling Aluminium (spelt the correct way) as the prices are so low.
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Postby Wingnut » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:37 am

it was about 600 euros a ton when i checked last year with a local recycler

anyone know what they pay now ?
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