Its great to see peeps recycling either for reuse within own home or to the bins for industrial recycling etc.

I do almost all of the usual stuff including reusing anything for other purposes.

There is one exception.....I SELL all my aluminium cans and foils. I'm lucky enough to live quite close to a scrap merchant who will pay CASH - yes, that luverly mucky stuff we hand over for our garden and other household bits. Last time I sold I was getting around 50p per kilo cans and 35p for foil - approx per carrier bag - crammed and crushed. look on internet for nearest dealer. I store and sell around once a year but there is no official minimum amount for selling unless the scrap merchant dictates. Even steel drinks cans often have an alu centre and ring-pull - this Scrooge removes them for sale!

If you have somewhere to store bags of alu-can or foil I think you'd be quite surprised how quickly you could pay for a few seeds or a special piece of equipment - in fact it is a great way of reinforcing to the kids that recycling DOES and can pay - immediate dividends if they wish!