Leaving Contrainers at Scrap Accounts

Hi, I'm been a curbside scrapper for a little over 3 years, and I've done very good for myself. Over the last year, there I have started picking up restaurant equipment. I've worked with franchises for McDonalds, Subway, Pizza Hut, and 2 other local burger joints. And now, I'm interested in entering small, local, businesses that I can pick up from on a more regular basis, like auto shops, and such.

I have quite a lot of old 35gal. wheeled trash carts and 18 gallon recycling bins that I received from a trash company, and I am getting ready to purchase stickers to place on the sides with my company name and number.

My questions include, "How good is the return on leaving containers at local businesses and certain residents? How should I go about rolling out? Have you done what I want to do and wish you could have done it differently?


Thanks guys!

I have 4x4ft produce bins aka gaylords at several locations. They work well just dont ask a client to sort anything or it wont make it into your bin.

I definitely like the clearcoat idea, I just need to find big labels. The carts I got have the trash company's logo melted in, so I need a large enough sticker to cover them. Aside from the company info stickers im going to buy some big METAL ONLY stickers to place on the sides and on the lid.

my target accounts are small mom and pop stores, I am a landscaper, and our shop is in a small industrial park, and that's where im looking to target first. ACME REFINING has pretty much dominated the area, but they don't service small shops, they go after the big metal machining and punching companies, and there are a lot of those. I service one small machine shop, he's got all his different metals sorted, from the steel, aluminum, carbide, he sorts it all.