New York couple makes $3,000 per month selling reusable trash on eBay.

New York couple makes $3,000 per month selling reusable trash on eBay.

Vice covers Erin and Dave, a newly married couple in Buffalo, New York.

The couple make an estimated $3,000 - $4,000 per month by selling reusable trash from dumpsters; and this is just their side hustle.

Erin and Dave sell everything from champagne boxes to emergency vehicle sirens and more on eBay for big cash.

True to the Vice ‘Side Hu$tle$’ series, this couple knows how to turn $Free.99 into real money, all the while being sustainable with their unconventional thrift strategy.

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