Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. Americans Throw Away Almost USD$70MM in Coins Every Year

Americans Throw Away Almost USD$70MM in Coins Every Year

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
2 Posts 2 Posters 28 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • taiwan_girlT Offline
    taiwan_girlT Offline
    taiwan_girl
    wrote on last edited by
    #1

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethharris/2016/10/24/americans-throw-62-million-worth-of-coins-in-the-trash-each-year-heres-a-plan-to-cut-that/?sh=f3ded11130b6

    (NOTE: this is an older article. I just saw one in the Wall Street Journal, but you guys would not have been able to read it. The info in the old article is pretty much the same.)

    Know that financial cliché about “throwing money away?” Turns out it’s actually — literally — true. As Bloomberg reported earlier this month, Americans chuck an estimated $62 million in coins into the trash each year.

    “The coins get swept off restaurant tables, mixed in with scraps when people empty their pockets, and vacuumed up from carpets or sofa cushions,” said Bloomberg.

    1 Reply Last reply
    • HoraceH Offline
      HoraceH Offline
      Horace
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      The government spent $100MM last year to fund this study about how much Americans threw away in coins last year. They wrote a check for the funding, so that explains why it wasn't counted in the results.

      Education is extremely important.

      1 Reply Last reply
      Reply
      • Reply as topic
      Log in to reply
      • Oldest to Newest
      • Newest to Oldest
      • Most Votes


      • Login

      • Don't have an account? Register

      • Login or register to search.
      • First post
        Last post
      0
      • Categories
      • Recent
      • Tags
      • Popular
      • Users
      • Groups