Collecting 450,000 cans and bottles helped Damien save a house deposit
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A NSW man has gone to great lengths to cash in on recycling, returning almost half a million cans over seven years to save for his first home.

In short:

Damian Gordon has bought a house using savings earned from recycling bottles and cans.

Each eligible bottle or can recycled at a Return and Earn depository results in a 10-cent refund.

What’s next?

Mr Gordon says he will continue to return cans and bottles to help pay off his mortgage

    • @[email protected]English
      0•15 days ago

      He paid for a down payment with seven years of manual labor earning less than a living wage.

      • @[email protected]English
        0•15 days ago

        I’ve got a truck bed and more worth of cans out back. Maybe worked 4 hours over two years? Almost all of the effort was crushing them by hand since I kept breaking the shitty crushers and been too lazy to make one. And that’s not counting the cans I pick out of the woods, usually toss them with the other garbage I get.

        • @[email protected]English
          0•15 days ago

          Maybe worked 4 hours over two years?

          And you’ve got 450k cans in the back of your pickup?

          Sure, dude.

          • @[email protected]English
            0•14 days ago

            I think you misunderstand them.

            I’ve got a truck bed and more worth of cans out back.

            More than just the truckload, not more than OP.

            • @[email protected]English
              0•14 days ago

              How about you time yourself gathering and crushing a truckload of cans and then come back to the conversation prepared to address the main point