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ergo sum

12/30/10 12:09 PM

#86285 RE: Justice37 #86283

Do you have any data on the proir profits or losses on that business?
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wooferwax

12/30/10 12:10 PM

#86286 RE: Justice37 #86283

Actually, I think the waste plastic you are referring to is sold to an incinerator if one is near buy. Plastic has good heat value due to the petrochemicals used to make them. They probably do make some money off these sales, but it is probably not much. I take my class to the local recycling center every year, and the man that runs it is never excited about dealing with this type of plastic. That what happens here anyway...different state, different rules I suppose.
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umiak

12/30/10 12:27 PM

#86292 RE: Justice37 #86283

What do you suppose would happen if JBI put a "PLASTICS ONLY ACCPETED" sign out in front of the RMF? I can see something along those lines happening in the future. For example when they have more machines running in NF and/or Canada. Here is a county recycle center that will only accept paper:


Bottom drops out of recycling industry

I bet these guys could keep a P2O processor busy...


CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Norm Steenstra's budgeting worries mount with each new load of cardboard, aluminum cans and plastics jugs dumped at West Virginia's largest county recycling center.

Faced with a dramatic slump in the recycling market, the director of the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority has cut 20 of his 24 employees' work week to four days from five, shuttered six of the authority's drop-off stations and is urging residents to hoard their recyclables after informing municipalities with curbside recycling programs that the center will accept only paper until further notice. "The market is just not there anymore," Steenstra said.

http://ewastedisposal.blogspot.com/2008/12/bottom-drops-out-of-recycling-industry.html