Can you survive in New York recycling cans for $0.05?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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You ever see those people with shopping carts covered in bags filled with bottles and cans?
This is a video about those people.
And none of it is what you'd expect.
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"There is no such thing as you sitting in the house saying I'm broke."
Respect.
"You see a bottle, I see five cents". Raw line.
I'm that same way
I see ten cents
Wow I thought you couldn’t make money anymore
YmirIsHere and when I see a can I see dollars 💵
I see it the same way i try to collect when ever i can
This was the best video I've seen in a long time. I have been a scrapper and can recycler for a while now (was taught from a young age) and the stigma on people like me is so harsh it nice to see a different viewpoint. Keep up the good work!
I have a friend in nyc who give a dollar or a few bucks to canners whenever he can especially on cold winter days or hot humid summer days. It’s not much but it helps reduce their work by half hour or an hour in the extreme weather in nyc. I would encourage people who live in walking cities to do the same.
Don’t give up on your dreams to keep going is a message of hope
I love the people you interview and their motivation and determination they have despite what ever circumstances they are in
determination has been constant in every single person we've profiled - it's an amazing thing about humans
This has been my side hustle while I look for a job. Unfortunately I got in trouble with the apartment complex for fishing out of the dumpsters. Hopefully I can still do it outside the apartments.
I hope wade reaches his goal 🥺❤️
It is just another form of mining 🙂 all metals deserve respect, because metals are used to build our world 🙂
Beautiful statement
I’m collecting cans from neighbors and people in my area for college and other expenses, there’s a lot of benefits and damn is it rewarding!
So true. I love picking up aluminum cans. You're not going to get rich off of. But every little bit helps. 👍
I find them when ever I can. Where it's on the ground or In the trash
I love collecting cans and bottles. I have been doing it for almost 4 years now.
Amanda The Scrapper&More that’s cool
It depends. Aluminum is in a current high demand and if you set up a route and stick to it you'll make slightly above minimum wage. But in Florida, it's crap. You have to present identification and fill out a 1099 form for a paycheck. Now you won't become rich. They have to do this by law to stop the brass and copper thieves.
Thats 8 to 30 dollars that you didn't have before.
I love these people I have so much respect for them because what they do makes a difference its money too
How long have you been doing this
Nino Gamboa I do it on and off but if you go in you'll make money and find good stuff I found beautiful things even things that would surprise you working thing the last thing I found was a apple Ipad no cracks working new
These guys are like the New york version of myself, I collect cans sometimes all day but in Ohio where we only make 47 cents a pound but I take in 500 lbs at a time so I make close to $250 each time, I do it for more than the money though, I do it so that they don't have to make new aluminum for new beer and soft drink cans which in turn is positive for the environment and for the exercise....
This is an amazing video and deserves to blow up
agreed! haha
In Germany you get 25 cents for bottle and can return.
Many pensioners in Germany survive from canning.
I was literally going to return my bottles on my shopping stop tmrw😂😂
U can guarantee no one is throwing them away then
JESUS please protect him and keep him safe
Fuck I'm a also ex CHIRSTAN .mmmm
Fuck jesus
Aman.
We need to donate to these people
@@dominosnostradamus2415I agree. I wish I could ship my water bottles to them.
Awesome! I am so glad to see you not give up and not turn to crime. Everyone hits hard times and we can give up or fight to keep on going. I hauled a truckload in of cans today that has been sitting in a shed for years. It's going in my "Faith jar" I wish you the very best!!👏🙏
I did this for 5 years
what was your experience like?
Yeah?
@@NowhereMenTV I did this for 6 years
I make around $1,200 a week on a low week but I find a lot of thing that I either repair or clean and resell
You made $1,200 I started collecting can one week ago I have one bag full.
This should be on VICE. Down in Florida it's 25 cents per pound. If you invest around $20 in fuel and collect a thousand, or so cans each day you'll make around $400 a week. But there's a catch......With all the brass and copper thieves of 2008, you no longer receive cash. And that means you fill out a 1099 form with identification for a paycheck....so no, down here in Florida it's shit!
It's shocking that there are only FORTY redemption centers in New York City. Upstate, out of a similar population, we probably have more redemption locations like that at Wegmans alone.
I guess I'm a canner. Lol. Cans are not worth much in Georgia. I pick up cans everywhere I go. Throw em in my trash can in my shed and wait til the bag is full.
I’m also a canner. I usually find cans in dumpsters and people that I work with save cans for me.
Eric Duggan in Arkansas it’s like a penny a can
The downside to the 5 cent deposit is that the barcode on the can has to be readable, meaning you can't crush it. This makes the bags that hold them huge and unwieldy. Other states crush them and save so much space.
The Economy does not work for anyone. It's like saying the thermometer is not working for you because it is hotter or colder than you personally like at the moment.
You have to negotiate your lifestyle. For example, there's RUclipsrs and can collectors making a livable wage. Living out of a vehicle is a 90% savings.
@@southbeachmiamiart895 someone told me that why should I pay someone to live. This guy lives in his rv and saves everything he makes ! Beautiful 😊👍
Wow. Pierre and Wade have amazing mindsets. Inspiring!
Just subscribed! Can’t wait to watch more of your videos like this.
for some seniors, it is good exercise. walk and walk.
it is 10 cents in SASK , CANADA
His goal is to work at Facebook so that he can pick up their cans 😂 ... Am just joking anyway, y'all should not take me serious 😏
Here in Alberta, Canada, everything 1L & under is $0.10 & everything over 1L is $0.25, & we have deposits on all milk & milk related products except evaporated milk & baby milk. Most don't make $100/day.
That’s so awesome it helps to get it off the streets and clean
This should have millions of views.
So no more can crushing? They don’t want them smashed anymore? I honestly don’t know and I’m curious!
If you crush them you will have to take it to the scrap yard which they will pay you by the pound , but all in all you are right the bottle redemption place doesn't want the cans to be crushed
You can crush them. It saves on space unless someone's taking advantage of this system and sabotaging it by stuffing sand, tin and lead to increase the weight of each load.
I can attest to this. I am a building porter and I do this at my job. It's not alot of money,I call my buddy from blue star beverage in nyc he comes with his truck and I put the bags of redemables in his trunk and he cashes me out right there. Once a month average $300.00 and it's all free money
We need an update on Wade
we heard someone from the google office actually invited him in for an office visit. Not sure if that went anywhere, but a good start
When I was working as janitor at school. We had 3 bags for garbage, paper and bottles, even tho there was bags for bottles the would end up in the garbage, and those were the bottles I saved and cleaned, about $1.50 a day. Then end of few months I would get 1 of my kids to count them and they earn there snack money that way. Now the 2 older 1s that did it have great work ethics.
thats awesome. that's a powerful lesson for your kids. much respect!
Sometimes when I find cans and bottles in garbages I even find lost jewelry like necklaces and big old earrrings, little tiny earrings and medium sized earrings. Oh my goodness.
This is an amazing and inspirational video! thanks for doing it!
Love the content and the video, I appreciate a lot the work of the videographer and the people that work in the recycling.
I feel so spoiled in sweden with our automatic can/bottle crumple machines at almost every grocery store
That's where you take advantage: invest in a recycling machine and like a snack vending machine you compensate the collector and work out a deal with the scrapyard.
We have that in the outlying parts of New York state as well. Sometimes the city is kind of backward. Don't even get me started about trying to find a restroom in Manhattan....
I pick up cans and sell copper or whatever junkyard will buy .I make money this way and I live in the mountains of Tenn. so yes one mans trash is my treasure money to help me get threw the month .
I make like $30 a week by picking cans in my job, i put it on the side,and it helps
i absolutely love this !! Not only are they making some income they are the soldiers helping saving our planet and this is so raw !!
The flavored seltzers question 🤣
Respect .. these people get off their ass and work hard... how and why people treat them badly is beyond me.
I love these guys I'm a picker too in Australia and its 10 cents for each can or bottle
I am in Oregon and canning just makes sense fiscally. I walk from my job through a industrial district to the nearest gas station and just pick up cans and bottles on the way, The gast station buys them for 10 cents each at a max of 24 and i easily hit the max without going out of my way and it buys me a beer for the rest of my walk home; The walmart nearby also buys them and if i happen to get alot of bottles then ill just walk over there and buy another beer with them, ill then find more bottles on my way home and have a head start on tomorrows beer. Its like free beer.
This is a nice little documentary. I'm not sure if you guys consider it such but to me that's how it appears. Good luck! BTW, I made sure to watch all of the ads. ^ ^
ha, thank you Peyton :)
That's cool it makes me want to move to NYC and make money like that
To much competition try moving to Philadelphia it's a gold mine trust me I know I'm doing it already lol
I enjoyed this video because I too am a scrapper for pop cans and as of late plastic bottles. Steady for 4 years I have been scrapping cans 95% as a job and by the aid of the God almighty I paid off a $1300.00 debt in 3 1/2 years and presently working on paying off another debt to Toronto Housing and working on building my own business at the same time for same industry. Thanks for the video fore it shines light on who we are as scrappers we really are not only are we who people who don't give up but we are fighters and we are the front line men and women of this society wherever we are.
Plus they are keeping those cans and plastics out of the land field, which is a good thing.
During 2020, I saved up metals from aluminum cans, copper, metal sheets, wires, brass, etc. and I earn nearly $200 dollars. Certainly not much, but it’s convenient way to earn some cash.
I drink a lot of beer and had been throwing the bottles in the garbage. I just recently started cashing them in to add to the dividend stocks I buy along with the spare change I have everyday. I'm thinking about it as I'm putting .10 cents to work for me. its not much but 10 - 20 years in the future I'll be glad I did this.
Another great NY story. Thanks guys for going out and bringing it to us
Thank you!
I met someone through the internet does this. He lives in New South Whales, Australia. He does this once a week and per month he makes minimum US$ 400 a month. His neighbours was surprised how much he is making even his co workers even he is making good money as a Nursing Manager. Also from work, he gets a small back pack he fills in with cans and bottles from the recycling bins from his co workers. I'll be started it today collecting as well from my house and my work.
Money layin on the ground...everywhere.
I do not care what people think of me. I will always know I can collect cans period if I need to and I have, when I was a teacher and still collect aluminum caps and plastic bottles because we drink tons of bottle products. It makes sense to not complain but change your situation by any means and this is legal smart means, honest money and it all adds up to a useful sum total of more than what you had before. Nothing worth having comes easy!
These guys really make me wanna can
RALLY ON! :)
Thumbs up Indiana USA.
In Norway you get $0.25 for one can
Love this kind of video!
thanks!
In Canada we are called can runners
Well done 🙌
Thanks :)
7:08 you arent the only person in America. Nor are you ENTITLED to anything. Go out and look for it. Nobody said itll be easy. Itll only be worth it
I don't understand the disrespect. I like so many others have meaningless employment. These people take a valuable finite resource sensely thrown away by others so that it can contribute to an increased supply of that finite resource. Not only are they performing for the good of the environment but may actually collectively reduce the cost to business who manufacture using this resource. Having a job that makes you both an environmentalist and decent capitalist is not a bad position to have at all; in fact it is a meaningful one. Thank you to you all.
I literally do the same thing wow amazing I knew I was on to something this a cool find back to the grind peace have a good day everyone
I wish it were longer!! This is a wonderful story documentary but I still have lots of questions! Would love more detail!
only 5 cents each can ? that's 3 times harder because here in western Europe we earn 15 cents for each can or bottle at least in the Netherlands.
In Germany it's 25 cents for each can or bottle.
The U.S.A. Should increase the price at least to 10 cents so that the labor is not so grinding .As a canner myself i believe these People earn some serious respect there because i would not steer my rears for 5 cents unless there is not so much competitions around in such a small city as Eindhoven.
I promisse i will make a week marathon in english on how much i make in 1 week so that you know how things go around in my hometown.
I'm not a homeless man but i need to exercise each day to strengthen and my motivation is scrapping for money and the labor is hard but invisible.
A thing they cannot trace on what i earn.
I call this Freedom just as this kind man explained Freedom and working whenever you want , however you want.
I’ve been doing this for a while but here in Australia we get 10c back, I’ve so far got 30 dollars
Technically canners do help supply metal refineries with raw material metal to create pure refined metal ingots.
I just recently retired. And I've started scraping. It's an extra 100 a week. We throw alot of things out in this country. I'll take them in for reprocessing. Better than a landfill
Here in Finland you get 15, 20 or 40 cents for a can/bottle depending on how big the bottle is
Wow i wish this was the same in the u.s.
I hope He was paid for this...
amazig video i really respect you guys for doing this
I did it in Portland Oregon sometimes. It was 10c a can.
They are cool because they recycling while some people just dumped their can without thinking about it. He has a great attitude. Keep on canning.
I do it and I don't need the money.
I do it because I am a stay at home home-schooling mum of 4 and we use it as part of our learning. We make goals and stick to them. It keeps our town clean to. It helps motivate me to go for walks and just overall get out of the house because I need to reach my goals. It's just fun to me or maybe I have watched to much Gary Vee 😂
I respect every jobs and the same every jobs need to be respect
GOD always blesses resources in. Abundance when one focuses on their gifts / mum fam
canning is a job, don't knock it, the original gig economy job without a multibillion dollar IPO
I do the same thing in Queensland, Australia and we get 10 cents per drink container, except I live in a town of about 20,000 people as opposed to NYC with 8 million people
Phenomenal editing and documentation. Great work.
Reverse Vending Machines for plastics, glass and metal containers. I think it's better for the city. Recyclers can easily dispose of thier "scrap materials" without stockpiling them in thier "junkyard".
I love these guys thank you
I hope that man works for Facebook or google one day
😂
@@KevinDiaz-ei5mo you the only one laughing
Dude got the wrong dream. Never going to happen
Homie wearing a Facebook shirt thinking he giving em free advertising I won’t lie I might get into canning
in new zealand its 45 cents a can so imma try it some day, love this video btw
these are the people who keep america from actually turning into a 3rd world fucking country
THANK YOU TO ALL THE CANNERS OUT THERE I RESPECT THE HELL OUT OF YOU👍🙏🙏
Can you do a follow-up? Thank you for making this film.
My family been doing this their whole life
They are the definition of citizens
Great job guys.
Do you have any update on the guy ????????
I been canning for now 10 years nd still recycling now
Wow that is good. 10 years woowee.
Where ?
Can you give me some advice
Fernando California
Nino Gamboa simple just keep recycling todays recycling has change pretty much everything is recycable and always use the coupons to get the maximum price and for more money I make on recycling about a week from 100-150
Nice video:) thanks:)
Where i am the value of cans is double that, $0.10 but the cost of life isn't cheap, some say ownership of a house is cheaper in the u.s than Canada.
Let's just say government injuries pension isn't worth a dime. Rents going up to almost $3000.00/month for small studio appartements, when your living under the line of poverty even with government income for disabilities, there is a problem, especially when the government gives new migrants over 2 grand a month plus money for a car, for 1 year then they got to be able to survive with what ever job they can find, if any will take em at fare wages, there usually there just exploited for cheap temp labour, & then they end up back in the gutter in a different country that they don't understand how the rules of the country work. So it's even worse than before.
5 cents per can or bottle is a bit low we get 10 cents here in australia.
If you are out in the city limits of Las Vegas you'll see the culverts filled with beer bottles and cans. Bottle redemption is what keeps NYS streets somewhat clean.
It's possible just need a ton of cans plus space for them. Cans/glass bottles and plastic inherently bring bad odors too so unless you have a house with a garage. In NYC the hard problem is collecting these bottles because if you get 1,000 or more. Where do you put them? I've seen people store them in apartments and that's just a no no for me. Already NYC apartments are small and storing bottles next to my bed omg nah. To each their own, can't knock somebody's other hustle good for them at least they got a meal ticket in it.
We should put prices on all things people litter thank God for these people
Thank you for the video, great stuff, interesting content, nice work. Only one thing. In the end you said:
"Pierre got us thinking there is a problem with the system..."
I want to ask you: Like really, only after this, you have started to think there is a problem? So before you were like - Ohh everything is alright, everyone is happy and there is no problems. Common guys, this is really very basic conclusion for someone who are not 16 years old and can see NY every day.
But moreover, great work👍
Not all places in North America have this. They are lucky.