News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Making a Living Collecting Cans. Parent comment

Re:Making a Living Collecting Cans by steveklabnik on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @06:35PM (#6518296)
> If you're that poor, drink tap water and don't buy beer and soda. You'll save way more that way than you could possibly make recycling.

Uh, they have to dig through the trash and go out and collect bottles because they're not their bottles...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Making a Living Collecting Cans by frogpelt on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @12:01AM (#6519316)
I was referencing this part of the post: "Low income families return their own empty beer bottles and soda cans for several hundred dollars of crucial income per year."
[ Parent | on HN ]