Retired UPS Driver to Donate Nearly Five Years Worth of Recycled Cans to Charity
Some people choose to throw their aluminum cans directly into the garbage, but one savvy local retiree is now sitting on a goldmine after collecting cans for several years.
According to the Arizona Daily Star, Larry Nitka, 54, is a former UPS driver who worked for the company for 28 years. About five years before he retired in 2014, Nitka started to pick up random bags of aluminum cans that he would see on his daily route.
Nitka got into the habit of picking up aluminum cans as often as he could, and the people he delivered to began leaving their cans out for him to grab. Sandi Putnam, one of Nitka's regulars on the delivery route, could always tell who dropped off her packages based on what happened to the cans on the curb.
"If I was expecting a package, I would make sure t...