How Recycling Plastic Helps the Homeless Make Money | NBC Left Field

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For some, recycling is about being environmentally conscious. For others, like Juan, plastic bottles and aluminum cans are a means to survival. A California plastic and scrap metal collector who is currently homeless, Juan depends on these containers to feed his family.
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@waqasahmad8015 2 года назад

I have recently started aluminium cans recycling business there are not many opportunities in UK but I'm happy to make this big

@mynameisunown9614 3 года назад

I like caning because is fun to do and it's helping out the world and the canners are doing the right thing.

@tinawalton7703 5 лет назад

This guy is such a hard worker. I hope an employer who can use an employee with that kind of dedication and perseverance sees this story and gives this guy a chance at a better paying job. If he's willing to work this hard for $15, imagine how he'd apply himself for $50. Seems like a win-win proposition. Wish him, his partner, and their dog all the best.

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@alecfleming373 5 лет назад

Just got to point out the obvious. They won't hire homeless due to the company image. So without a shower, it is impossible. Been there. I got off the streets recycling scrap and no kidding the prices dropped so hard I was super thankful for the shower. I'm talking .11 a pound to .02. Thats like 200 a week to nothing... They don't want people to do well, or they wouldn't have their little system of super cheap workers...

@alecfleming373 5 лет назад

Tina Walton I actually am not. Spent the last 7 years hanging on check to check. I face going back to being homeless a second time in my life, next month. And welfare is denying me without a reason. So yeah, the struggle is real.

@Prowlgmail 6 лет назад

Got no problem with a homeless guy making money off bottles and cans. They got live too. I'm always giving can to people that ain't got anything. Usually if there down on luck they well take them. Had one guy come back thank me for giving him 20 dollars in can one day

@Pfttt905 5 лет назад

Just let them live they are already going through stuff🙏

@rqst69420 4 года назад

Thank you so much for caring heart im Heather The wife in this documentary

@HW-fj6ip 6 лет назад

I live in LA, and stopped recycling my cans and bottles. I dump them in the public areas, like the trash outside the grocery store. The cans are ALWAYS picked up by someone who can benefit from them. We should rather thank them for reducing the environmental burden that not recycling can cause. Help a neighbor in creative ways!

@eljoker7109 Год назад

Cool I just started giving a guy a big black plastic bag full of crush plastic bottles. Is that enough?

@ricksdiecast4009 5 лет назад

I would just let the homeless people take the cans because it’s better than them robbing houses, graffiti, or hurting people it’s a good pathway.

@marianelavega453 4 года назад

Leave the bottle collects alone they making an honest living

@KingdomMadeAnimals 5 лет назад

At least hes not standing there on a corner with a sign asking for your hard earn money .who knows he might be able limited to certain working disabilites and due to previous record it would be hard to land a good paying job , that you could afford rent in California.

@Ampersand1988 5 лет назад

I tried this one time, got 30bucks, but then it was exhausting walking from bin to bin, so I stopped.

@waterfirelord 10 месяцев назад

Dude by recycling make you health

@shawnkliewer9987 8 дней назад

We have been recycling for 7ys now, people only pick up change then they throw their trash on the ground, we see it as a Nickle slot machine, we donate around 9k a year to multiple schelrosis.

@Cassofalltrades 2 года назад

Been trying to do this to make some pocket money while I look for a job, but got busted for "scavanging". I hate this world.

@jasonrandom372 5 лет назад

It is not illegal to rummage through litter bins. Because if it is in the landfill collection it is considered abandoned property. But if it is in a recycling bin recycling dumpster, then it is property of the trash company. Who ever it was who told you it is illegal to rummage through litter bins doesn't know what they are talking about.

@gregelliott5016 3 года назад

Nothing wrong with homeless with trying to support them self

@coyotefeather4896 Год назад

Take care of your lady , man. Much respect

@jonglewongle3438 2 года назад

I raid street bins daily for deposit containers. I am not in the States, but no one has ever told me that it is illegal, where I am, outside of the USA. The word I have, strictly unofficial, is that the local municipality, and the given collection contractor[s], won't whizz on the recycling aspect of it. .Once or twice I've crossed paths with the collection contractors, and they're a bit queezy me raiding the back of their compactor, but otherwise in no way pissed with me raiding ' their ' bins. One of them even gave me a generic bin key, on the wink-wink basis, but which I never need coz I've got the knack to unlocking and locking the bins.

@harshitsrivastava6397 6 лет назад

Never thought like that

@MissAmazanda Год назад

In some states like New york and Cali they will pay you for plastic bottles but the majority of the U.S. doesn't even take them but they do take cans in the other states, the way so many plastic bottles end up in our environment and in rivers I wish someone would make a law that not more than 25% of drinks can be put in plastic bottles and the other 75% would be aluminum because the cans are way more likely to be recycled....And in addition to that way more states should start doing the deposit thing like Michigan and New York does....just my thoughts...

@shellbythesea12 4 года назад

Although I'm not homeless,not far from it though,I hunt for cans and bottles every night. People put you through hell and treat you like shit on the bottom of their shoes

@SHAUNDJFISHBEATSMARTIN 5 лет назад

FUCK EYE FEEL LIKE GIVING HIM ALL IVE GOT HES SUCH AH POSITIVE GUY

@KELLEY-theAngel Месяц назад

JIMMY DARTS, can you get this man a go fund me??

@mrhi4230 6 лет назад

Donate the revenue of this video to him

@user-zn9qv5dm1o 8 месяцев назад

Can A small clip of your video be used by my students in their project presentation? They have credited the video at the end. Plz reply

@Baby1245 Год назад

The Reverse Vending Machine system available world wide might help the homeless get more out of thier pickings... We really need people to help clear the Cities of these kinds of trash...paper,plastic,glass,cans..

@StayTunedNBC 6 лет назад

While reporting on this story in both New York and Los Angeles, we noticed that for many people living on the streets, collecting and redeeming recyclables is the go-to method of earning some cash. Have you ever thought about making money from your recyclable bottles and cans?

@sdc2027 6 лет назад

As a teen in Iowa, my brother and I collected 5¢ cans during the college football game. It was a summer's spending money and taking the family out to dinner sometimes Juan has a good heart!

@bezzarguy 5 лет назад

I leave the recycled bag outside the can so the homeless can get them without digging through the trash.

@alecfleming373 5 лет назад

Not homeless but damn close. Recycling is a god send. The only way I have kept my car with some gas to keep going to work. I average some crappy numbers so I only do it for gas now. I will make $2.50 from one bag of plastic. So to be worth it I need at least 4 bags of plastic. Without a spot to stash it, I just say this much, I admire the efforts people put into this.

@shortchange4618 5 лет назад

I do this as a hobby and to save all the profit. But to do this full time it must be brutal on the body

@alecfleming373 5 лет назад

Short Change It is hard, burn way more calories than you can take in.

@yodaddy1235 5 лет назад

Wow😲im shocked

@marianelavega453 4 года назад

It ain't only homeless people that do that I do that that's extra money

@Casinolifemister16 5 лет назад

When is the best time to look for bottles on the streets? Like the morning? Monday mornings? Lol

@Dahmer_Jeff 4 года назад

When the bars and clubs close

@nateavocado8675 3 года назад

@@Dahmer_Jeff smart

@sjyfgbei4056 3 года назад

Is thst gt bmx???!!!?

@lavinawetterberg6399 6 лет назад

What happens to these recyclable programs now that China is refusing to take our plastic and other recyclables. How will this affect the fragile homeless economy? Our local Ralph closed down it recycling center a few months ago.

@stevesommer44 4 года назад

Fuck! I could write a book on this subject. Recycling is DEAD! China was a dumping ground for our trash for years. Not anymore. Ca. has never paid the crv amount that are written on the cans. Ever. The U.S is considered to be retarded with it's recycling efforts. Half of what you put in your blue trashcan ends up in the landfill. Recycle places are closing everywhere. I can't find one single place within 50 miles that will pay me to recycle plastic bottles. You can't even give them away.

@eljoker7109 Год назад

I give a homeless guy a big black plastic bag full of crushed plastic bottles. Is that enough?

@tavic8154 Год назад

In Hong Kong we’re im from people recycle cardboard for money

@mocktheweekfan92 5 месяцев назад

so its illegal to do it unless a government body benefits?

@journeyrabbits 4 года назад

Its great to earn money more

@viethuynh6808 12 дней назад

I got arrested for canning at a university

@kevinhiggenbottom8339 2 года назад

My advice to you and to your girlfriend or wife get a job make you some money get you a place and you can still do your plastic in your cans recycling on the side like I do and there is nothing wrong of giving people invite that is a pretty good advice to take I'm on a fixed income I live in the apartment I'm having a hard time getting things paid and all that because I do for myself and then on the side I tried to collect can no matter where I go and go from there and I washed them out with warm water and then I smash them and then I get a few bags and then when I got enough back to decide to go ahead and take them to the recycling place I get the money and give a 22 my friend for gas money and that's not a problem they're either so please take my advice if you don't want to take my advice that's okay that's luck to you my friend be safe

@lindamerchant4431 Год назад

At least doing a little work for food other than panhandling

@mikegeorgius7589 4 года назад

Pretty mu h my exact story. 20's and 30's locked up. Learned recycling. Squared up. Then my kidneys failed me. Now my liver is failing me. That's the f'n luck...

@livingartdesigns06 4 года назад

I'm so sorry to hear this. May God be with you. I give you positive thoughts and warmness on your behalf.

@mrhi4230 6 лет назад

Also they should make more money from recycling which will be nice

@danvanhoose6783 3 года назад

Wonder how much goes to smokes everyday.

@ssweeps 4 года назад

Dude. Save money stop smoking

@Preciselylate322 3 года назад

Easier said than done, especially when smoking is the only source of coping/stress relief 🤷🏻‍♀️ same reason people turn to drugs.

@nyibolakot5348 3 года назад

I hate these politics man they make enough money these people barely make 20$ a day they have it bad enough

@jmassa007 6 лет назад

No money, but got a dog.

@margaretmariamrosenthal4970 6 лет назад

The cigarettes he's smoking cost more than dog food. And the dog can protect him by barking and provide non-judgmental, companionship - so important for everyone.

@JesseWright68 6 лет назад

Judge much?

@user-tg4we4mz3v 2 месяца назад

Criminal to homeless. Not his fault.

@Livinglife4Jesus97 3 месяца назад

Its ilegal oh jeez, then you complain about panhandling or stealing let people do it homeless or not

@BroccoliBeefed 6 лет назад

What The hell is this? Having a pet isn't cheap. Those cigarettes he's smoking cost $8 a pack. On his budget that will buy two meals--- far more important than the idiocy of smoking cigarettes. I don't believe in addiction. You make a choice to smoke or drink. No one is shoving those cigarettes in his mouth. He is. :( I've got something better he can shove in his mouth and it won''t give him lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, emphysema. :) No poor person should be smoking. Economically it doesn't make sense. And it sure doesn't make sense health wise.

@markdaddario1941 6 лет назад

Sorry, I don't get it. Willing to work 10-14 hours a day, but satisfied with $40. Living in a tent, no mention of what wife does, SLOWLY gets around with a dog, one hand on a cart and not riding the bike. Pathetic! Sad, but pathetic! Not a lot of effort going on there, especially between his ears. There are jobs out there that pay considerably more than the less than $5 an hour he is making, even for unskilled workers. There are so many jobs here, people are living in tents too, as housing is a problem, but Wendy's pays $14 with heath benefits after 32 hours and construction workers $50, as I was recently told, as there are not enough workers. Too poor to go anywhere? Sticking out a thumb costs nothing.

@dropmelon 6 лет назад

Mark Daddario A lot of people are competing for those jobs though.

@pepo1025 6 лет назад

You real don't get it and never will. Seems simple to your, right? What is really sad is your superior attitude.

@mbords01 6 лет назад

pepo1025, I am completely with you. People like Mark D really breaks heart.

@markdaddario1941 6 лет назад

A lot of people are NOT competing for the jobs available here. Businesses are cutting their open hours short, reducing services, not expanding when they want to, because there are not enough workers here. Sometimes you have to move to where the jobs are instead of hoping the jobs will come to where you are. There are plenty of places in the West that are growing and need workers.

@markdaddario1941 6 лет назад

This isn't about superior attitude, this is about the 9 pages of help wanted in our local paper. This is about cities not far from here that are growing and need workers. This is about moving to where the jobs are instead of waiting for jobs to come to you or your area. If you want to eat, and there is a drought, you better move. Just like in American History, when the Dust Bowl happened in the midwest, people moved because there was nothing there for them. If the waters are rising, you move or drown.