If we don't get it for free then I don't want it and they can continue to pay trucking and dump tipping fees. I tell any potential supplier of plastic that we are not paying anything for it in advance to avoid senseless discussions of pricing junk plastic.
Our FL group has run into some of that but it doesn't last long... Bottom line is I will then save their competitors money by processing their plastic and reducing their costs. A supplier came to our site here and wanted to get paid a couple cents a pound and we sent them away. They came back a week later willing to give us the plastic for free when they realized we are not going to let dirty mixed plastics become a commodity.
80% of all plastic goes to landfill and that is the plastic we are acquiring -- NO ONE buys it now and it is expensive to discard. I don't want the other 0-20% of high quality, highly sorted, super clean plastic that some (few) pay for. The Chinese control that market and it is very cyclical.
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