We had a tonne of leftover cans and bottles from our engagement party and today we took them down to the container where we could recycle them and get 10 cents back per item.
Some learnings of the process were:
- It doesn't accept large bottles, like wine or champagne
- You can get credit back in the form of a Woolworths voucher, so you can save some money on the next grocery shop
- Every time you add an item it checks for a barcode, items without barcodes won't be accepted
We ended up making about ~$15. It's definitely not something you could do as a job and get rich quickly from but worth doing in many cases!