{"id":123388,"date":"2022-03-28T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129467"},"modified":"2022-03-28T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:30:00","slug":"random-chilean-boy-recycles-500kg-of-cans-to-buy-himself-a-nintendo-switch-and-zelda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/28\/random-chilean-boy-recycles-500kg-of-cans-to-buy-himself-a-nintendo-switch-and-zelda\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Chilean Boy Recycles 500kg Of Cans To Buy Himself A Nintendo Switch (And Zelda)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8a5d8abfb642b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8a5d8abfb642b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Medium Ca4937a5358217db4d7a4da32ef86018 (1)\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8a5d8abfb642b\/medium-ca4937a5358217db4d7a4da32ef86018-1.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8a5d8abfb642b\/medium-ca4937a5358217db4d7a4da32ef86018-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"635\" alt=\"Medium Ca4937a5358217db4d7a4da32ef86018 (1)\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CbgGDFhuBKi\/\">@drabototo<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Chilean boy has recycled enough cans to buy a Nintendo Switch and a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">Breath of the Wild<\/a>, according to an Instagram post from his sister, who had been helping him to collect them and take them to a recycling drop-off.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-instagram\"><\/aside>\n<p>Benja, from Lo Prado, Santiago, collected cans over the course of 9 months, keeping track of how much he had earned and recycled in a notebook.<\/p>\n<p>Console prices in South American countries are notoriously high \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/paxful.com\/insights\/global-cost-of-gaming\/#intro\">according to a 2020 survey from Paxful<\/a>, Chile is the third-most expensive country to buy a PS5, and a Nintendo Switch costs roughly 61.4% of the average monthly salary, compared to 8.4% in the US and 15% in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Which just makes the feat all the more impressive! It took 495.13kg of cans to reach his goal of buying the Switch and Zelda, but here&#8217;s hoping that Benja won&#8217;t have to start a serious soda habit to buy his next game.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did Benja pick the right game? Is Breath of the Wild worth 9 months of can-collecting? Tell us your thoughts in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: @drabototo A Chilean boy has recycled enough cans to buy a Nintendo Switch and a copy of Breath of the Wild, according to an Instagram post from his sister, who had been helping him to collect them and take them to a recycling drop-off. Benja, from Lo Prado, Santiago, collected cans over the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}