There are two ways to recycle in China.
1. Do nothing. Just throw your trash away. Someone else will dig through it to find any items that can be possibly recycled.
2. Collect all recyclables, rescuing them from your regular trash and take them to a recycler yourself.
Although we’ve done method one for six years now, we’ve made a change recently to method two. Why?
Little Miss Businesswoman, that’s why. When you take things to the recycler, you get paid for them. Sprite asked if she could collect the recyclables and keep the money. Of course, we agreed. What a great project.
Here is Mr. Recycle Man sorting our trash.
Weighing the cardboard.
Waiting by piles of plastic.
Believe it or not, we’ve always considered not taking our trash to the recycler as a blessing to our neighborhood trash collectors. We didn’t want the hassle of collecting things and taking them elsewhere. But there are plenty of others who need the tiny bit of extra money and are willing to work for it. Nothing is wasted in China.
Oh — you’d probably like to know how much we got for that load of garbage — 5 RMB ($.73). As my husband says, “better than a stick in the eye.”
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