Couple Funds Honeymoon With Recyclables 38
John and Ann Till, from Petersfield, in Hampshire, spent three months collecting recyclables to pay for their honeymoon flights. The couple earned one reward point, which they converted into BA air miles, for every four items they recycled. In the end, they amassed 36,000 miles. Mr Till, 31, a railways communications manager, said, "We wanted to make our honeymoon special and were trying to think of ways to raise money for it. I saw on the machine that you got a Tesco Clubcard point for every four items you put in. For every 250 points you got 600 British Airways miles. We worked out that it would be possible to turn rubbish into our flights — as long as we had enough."
Garbage = Fuel! (Score:1)
Re:Garbage = Fuel! (Score:4, Funny)
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Mr Fusion [wikia.com] for the Win!
Re:Inefficient (Score:4, Insightful)
I think part of the point is that they were doing something for the general good at the same time as helping finance their honeymoon.
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You've confronted people digging for through trash to find recyclables because they need the tiny amount of money they can get for them? I get the "they're trespassing on my private property to make a mess of my garbage" problem, but have a tiny bit of perspective here, man.
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The problem is that they rip open all the bagged trash, paw through it, and leave a loose pile that blows into the yard. At least that's what I confront the same jerks about. I called the police a couple of times but they run off by the time the cops arrive.
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Yes. Just like door-to-door chocolate selling, or bake sales, or 99% of all charity money raising schemes. If people just worked an extra hour per week at their jobs, and donated the extra cash to whatever cause, charities would have a lot more money. Personally, I'd rather earn $40 for charity by working an extra hour on Wednesday, than make $40 by spending the weekend walking around my neighbourhood scalping light bulbs made by retards.
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Re:Inefficient (Score:5, Insightful)
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Working to earn money is eeeeeevil, didn't you know? Get with the times.
Re:Inefficient (Score:4, Funny)
heh! Don't knock it. I paid for my wife's wedding ring by walking the street, picking up empty soda-pop bottles.
Had to do something, the baby was on its way.
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Plus you've got a strangely appropriate alias to go with the story. A bit too convenient some might say.
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heh! Don't knock it. I paid for my wife's wedding ring by walking the street...
Boy, THAT seems like the wrong way to earn wedding ring cash!
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Don't you judge me, FishAdmin. Don't you judge me.
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Don't you judge me, FishAdmin. Don't you judge me.
Well played, sir. Well played!
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I doubt that actually. They made the equivalent of £3000 by doing 170 hours each ... that's £3000/340 hours ... so about £9/hour tax free. Not many part time jobs pay that sort of money.
That's a lot of stuff... (Score:1)
That means they averaged >650 items per day (including weekends and holidays) for three straight months.
That's a lot of Mt. Dew.
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Fixed that for ya.
They cheated: cutting cans in half! (Score:5, Interesting)
Note, they cheated: they cut cans in half so it counted as two cans. Invalidate half their value. They're stealing money from the system, basically. WTG.
Re:They cheated: cutting cans in half! (Score:4, Informative)
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So they took advantage of an idiotic system. Good for them.
Environment: ur doin it rong (Score:2, Insightful)
They spent three months recycling, so that they could indulge in one of the most carbon-intensive, environmentally damaging activities a human can participate in (short of actually setting fire to a forest)? Bravo, middle classes! Next thing you know they'll be tarmac'ing over their front garden so there's more space for their two new electric cars.
Sounds like cheating to me. (Score:4, Insightful)
Is that a trashy... (Score:1)
Honeymoon, or what?
Would have been even better... (Score:2, Funny)
Would have been an even better story if it was 2nd (or any number > 1) marriage for both of them. Talk about recycling and reusing!
Recyling turned my life around... (Score:1, Interesting)
About three years ago me and my wife had some bad times and we lived out of a park in first burbank, then santa monica. In CA, you could recycle 16 oz or smaller bottle for $0.04 or 20 oz and up for $0.08. In Burbank across the street they filmed the Ellen show and people would line up around the block for hours to get in to see her or even just sit in a room and watch her on cctv. When those lines went in there was trash everywhere. Two shows a day on filming days and between $20 and $50 in bottles pe