How much would you pay to reduce your waste? These user-pay recycling businesses are booming

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While the collapse of soft plastic recycling company REDcycle is a blow to the industry, demand grows for commercial services that charge to collect and recycle unwanted goods not allowed in yellow kerbside bins.

abc.net.au/news/pay-to-recycle-reduce-waste-yellow-kerbside-bins/101767370More Australians are paying to recycle their unwanted goods that can't be included in kerbside recycling.The popularity of the user-pay recycling service shows that consumers are wanting to reduce wasteSince launching its pick-up service two years ago, Upparel has collected more than 100,000 boxes of unwanted clothes from households around Australia.

"Our growth is definitely telling us people are taking responsibility for the end of life of their products." After trialling a pay-to-collect "clunky cardboard" service in Randwick Council in Sydney's east, it's rolling it out across the city from this week.

 

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mmm...ok... and there was i thinking we already paid for waste recycling through our council rates... and aren't there already $$$ incentives for corporates to enter the recycling industry?

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