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New Ways to Make Money Off Recycling

08/06/08 - 10:17 AM EDT

Kelsey Abbott

If you'd prefer new gizmos to cash, Feedyourplayer.com is the place to trade in your used CDs (in the jewel cases) for a new TV, computer, camera or iPod.

You can get a Canon 7.1MP Digital ELPH camera for 135 CDs, a PlayStation 3 for 200 CDs, a 47" HDTV for 750 CDs or an iPod shuffle for just 25 CDs or 17 DVDs. The company makes its money by selling your used CDs and DVDs out of their Charleston, South Carolina store.

If you'd like to earn money for charity by recycling things that usually get tossed in the garbage, sign up for one of Terracycle's wrapper or drink pouch brigades. Terracycle will "upcycle" -- turn waste into useful products -- your trash by turning wrappers and drink pouches into tote bags, backpacks, pencil cases and homework folders.

Terracycle makes your part easy. Just sign up for one of the brigades on the Terracycle website. You'll receive four prepaid collection bags. When you've filled the appropriate bag with at least 50 cookie wrappers, 100 drink pouches or 200 energy bar wrappers, seal it and drop it off at the nearest UPS(UPS - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) location. Corporate sponsors will donate two cents per wrapper to the charity of your choice.




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Kelsey Abbott is a freelance writer in Freeport, Maine, where she lives with her husband and their dog.

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