A Recycling Romance: How A U.K. Couple Funded Their Honeymoon By Rifling Through Rubbish

A Recycling Romance: How A U.K. Couple Funded Their Honeymoon By Rifling Through Rubbish

They say the couple that recycles together romances together. Or at least that's what they'll be saying when they hear the story of John and Ann Till.

The U.K. couple had just gotten married at the end of July and wanted their honeymoon to be really special, but they didn't initially have the funds to meet their expectations.

John Till told ABC News that the couple wanted to "take a cruise on the Queen Mary 2," but he added that they had neither the "time or money" to make the return journey on the cruise ship whose voyages include both trans-Atlantic and European destinations.

The Tills then decided that they would take the cruise to New York via the QM2 and raise the money needed to pay for their plane tickets home. So how were they able to raise the funds to return home? Simply by collecting cans, bottles and containers that were just lying around on the streets of their hometown, Petersfield in Hampshire, England.

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