Since 2017, Damian Gordon, an Australian from the Central Coast region, has been walking the streets, cleans the beaches and traveling festivals to collect cans and plastic bottles. Alone, but motivated, he carries out this recycling mission with impressive rigor.
Several hours a week, he recovered more than 450,000 recyclable containers. Thanks to the Australian setpoint system “NSW Return and Earn”, which reimburses 10 cents per unithe thus garnered 46,000 Australian dollarseither Over 41,000 euros.
Home festivals
Damian Gordon, who also works full time, has found a unique opportunity by becoming volunteer in music festivals. In exchange for free access, it collects recyclable waste around the scenes. This activity also allowed him to Meet famous artists.
Over the years, he has recovered much more than cans: camping equipment, light garlands, cowboy hatsand even non -perishable abandoned foodstuffs. So many objects that testify to a waste companyaccording to him.
-A house purchased thanks to waste
After seven years of collection, Damian used the 41,000 euros collected to pay a house deposit : a small fisherman’s hut with two bedrooms. This very modest is today its refuge.
Internet users had fun calculating the profitability of its action: About $ 18 per dayor $ 126 per week. A sum obtained only thanks to recycling.
A green and militant gesture
Questioned by ABC NewsDamian Gordon alerts the excesses of our time: “There is so much waste today. We live in a society at all disposable. »»
His commitment goes further. He now furnishes his house with recycled furniture and continue to collect the cans for Refund your mortgage. Its history, relayed by many Australian media, is today an example.
