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$0.05 and 10 seconds per bottle is $18/hour, which is decent. (Although that doesn't account for actually getting the bottle, or travel, or redeeming the bottle
by ars 8y ago
$0.05 and 10 seconds per bottle is $18/hour, which is decent. (Although that doesn't account for actually getting the bottle, or travel, or redeeming the bottle which isn't very fast.)
> not millions
No, not individually, but if tons of people are doing it all day, it adds up.
And bumping the fee to $0.10 makes it $36/hour which is very attractive to someone who doesn't have a job.
Again, the actual earnings are lower, but I think it's a realistic type of fraud.
- moate 8y agoThis plan doesn't scale. You can't bump the fee to $.10 an hour because there's fixed costs associated with this specific plan (paper, glue, transportation, etc). There is a viable way to do recycling fraud, but DIY stickers isn't it.