YouTube star Beau Miles picks up the cans and bottles that drivers chuck out of cars.
The town of Jindivick in West Gippsland is known for its beautiful, rolling green pastures, but like everywhere in Australia, some motorists like to chuck rubbish out of cars.
He is a rubbish runner, which doesn’t mean he is bad at jogging. Carrying a bag, he likes to pick up trash he finds along the road as he runs.On Tuesday afternoon, he vowed to jog about 20 kilometres of the 60-kilometre distance to a recycling depot in the town of Traralgon, picking up last minute pieces from the verges of the road.
Miles doesn’t think anyone else will be sleeping out to get in “like they’re getting concert tickets” but said it will be fun to be first.Videos have documented him secretly building his wife a $60 cabin and 40 days eating only canned beans. One video showed him running a lap of his eight hectare property every hour for 24 hours and doing odd jobs such as pruning his garden and painting a fence between laps.
The plan was to cash in more than 8000 cans and bottles they had collected at the time under the NSW scheme, but they were turned away because they weren’t locals.– inspired by the episode of American sitcom Seinfeld in which Kramer and Newman attempt to drive bottles and cans from New York to Michigan to cash them in.
He took part in cash for recycling schemes for metal and glass when working as an adventure guide in Vermont in the US, in the early 2000s, and said it was brilliant that the Victorian scheme is finally returning.“I’m very positive about it, I’m not negative that it’s taking 20 bloody years to get here, but it’s nice to finally be at the start time of something that will be here for a long time and make people respect resources, I suppose.
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