Well, I've bid three and actually won one. My first E Waste collection event. A fairly large college town with over 300,000 residents in the state of Texas. The City pays for it. My pricing for the event is as follows.
TV's and CRT monitors- $15 and $30. Limited to 2 per household unless they choose to pay the fees.
Computers and household electronics. Free
Printers, scanners, key boards, mice, remote controls, radios, etc - $0.18/lb
Lead acid batteries- free
NiCd, lithium and NiMh- $2.25/lb
No appliances or yard machinery.
Transportation $1550 per trailer x 4.
This event will beheld in October in conjunction with a household hazardous waste collection event. They do it every year and the last event had a total of 1789 cars come through. Not all had e waste but they did ship out a total of 4 53 foot semi trailers. Total weight shipped 56,000 lbs of electronics. I have already made arrangements with a nation wide company who is R2 and e-steward certified to take all the CRT tubes and tv's for $5 less than
what I'm billing. They will also take the printers scanners, keyboards, etc for $0.13/lb. They will also provide me with 4 laborers, and $1200 for transportation of 2 trailers.
Majority of the loads will be tv's and monitors. Of the 56,000 lbs they moved last year 28,430 was tv's and
monitors. 6788 lbs of lead acid batteries. 11,340 of the misc. 14,865 lbs of electronics. They manifested 17 pallets alone of towers.
Costs I will needs to cover.
Forklift rental, drop off and delivery. $475
150 pallets $4ea $600
Gaylord boxes estimated $400
Labor 6 guys from temp service $16/hr for 7 hrs. $1440
Transportation rental, mileage and fuel for 2 semi's and temp driver costs. $1980.
3 laborers for 24 hrs to break down computers and various electronics post event $864
Performance bond $1120
Sounds steep but most of these costs will be paid for alone by the $5 I make per CRT tube and since my subcontractor is covering the cost for the other two semi trucks and trailers I will have additional funds from my
transportation charges that should put me in the positive. Based off my estimates today's current prices and
volumes from the prior collection event I stand to make 2 times my monthly salary for a few days of planning,
7 hours of labor, and few more hours to cover misc. Now if I worked at Walmart 2 times my monthly salary wouldn't be that impressive but fortunately I have a descent day job. This event should pay for my 40x60 shop I'm in the process of building now. This event will also open doors to others if I'm able to pull it off. I'm also afraid if it is done as planned my day job may eventually change. My wife thinks I'm in way over my head. Less than a year ago I was breaking down computers in the garage, now I'm building a large shop to hold my inventory, insured for over a million bucks, contracts with large hospitals and a university now this.. And to think I still get excited when I find a pentium pro.
Thanks guys for all your help and guidance. Reading all the past and current posts have given my so much information. Plus the large amount of encouragement. I can't wait For October.
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