Tipping fees in Chicago run about $20-25 per ton at a landfill. That is the tipping fee ECOS would share. Essentially LRS would share the tipping fee they can avoid by diverting the waste away from the landfill (their avoided cost).
If you extrapolate it over 12 tons per day, you are talking about daily tipping fees of $240-$300 per day or between $7,200- $9,000 per month in tipping fees (based on 30 days).
That would mean that ECOS could earn between $2,880-$3,600 per month in tipping fee sharing. Not a mountain of money, but better than a poke in the eye. Last year's tipping fee would almost pay for their external accountant.
