Feel like a career change? Dumpster divers revealed to be earning up to $100,000 a year by raiding industrial bins and collecting recyclable cans
- So-called ‘bin bandits’ raiding other people’s garbage for recyclable containers
- It is proving a lucrative business with some cashing in up to $2000 per week
- Comes after state governments introduce refund schemes to reduce litter
Dumpster divers are managing to cash in up to $100,000 a year by raiding industrial bins for recyclable cans.
Resourceful collectors, dubbed ‘bin bandits’, are cashing in on other people’s waste by rummaging through their rubbish in broad daylight and the dead of the night.
The phenomenon comes following the introduction by the state governments of refund schemes for bottles and cans.
And the bin rummaging is proving a lucrative business, with reports of some cashing in up to $2000 a week, Yahoo 7 reported.
Dumpster-divers are managing to cash in up to $100,000 a year by raiding industrial bins for recyclable cans
The so-called ‘bin bandits’ were caught rummaging through other people’s garbage in both broad daylight and the dead of night
Speaking on Sunrise, Local Government Association of NSW president Linda Scott insisted it should be seen as positive that people are rummaging through bins to extract items for recycling
Speaking on Sunrise, Local Government Association of NSW president Linda Scott insisted it should be seen as positive that people are rummaging through bins to extract items for recycling.
‘Really in the end it’s a good thing that people are getting out and picking up litter from our streets and being able to make a little bit of money off it,’ she said.
‘But also ultimately to increase recycling which we know is so important.’
‘Really in the end it’s a good thing that people are getting out and picking up litter from our streets and being able to make a little bit of money off it,’ she said. (Stock)
The NSW Government rolled out their Return and Earn scheme in December 2017, becoming the second state to do so after South Australia.
As part of the scheme, every eligible container earns a 10-cent rebate.
Queensland, the Northern Territory and the ACT all have similar schemes offering money for recycled goods.