Gold in Scraps

They say that there is great money wastes. In fact, many people consider garbage as their dirty gold. It is because the waste materials of other people may be sold and recycled and there are people who earn a lot from them.

I can truly attest to this because one time, my mother in law decided to clean up one room in the store so that we can make room for an extra office where a new machine will be installed.

That room mostly contained old electric fans, radios, cassette players, TVs, computers, and other electronics equipment that were either owned by the family or were left there by customers who thought that their things are beyond repair or that they would not want to pay for repairs. Some of these things have been in this room for more than 10 years. My parents in law just kept them because the owners might come back for them. But after all these years, none of them claimed the items and everything just stacked.

And so one day, Mama just thought of calling someone from an electronics recycling company. The guy just sorted out everything and all in all, Mama sold more than P20,000 worth of scraps. Imagine the amount. And to think that the buyer will be able to sell it at a higher amount to the recycling plant. Wow! There is just so much money in garbage!