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    Good news for ewaste.

    Here's a good read from September.

    500% growth in e-waste quantity in the next 10 years - Recyclingbiznet

    Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
    Thomas Jefferson

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    the thing about this is QUANTITY not QUALITY. the flood of ewaste to enter the market in the next few years on the computer side is going to be the mid to late 2000's same with your lcs tvs and its not to say that it wont be a money maker but the quality of waste we have seen has been the treasure hunts and just like a sunken ship filled with gold, it will be harder and spread further apart to find that earlier waste. just like the real gold rush we had people just flood when prices were higher and cherry pickers who wasted so much of what we all sometimes fight for those scraps.
    we all loved the gold rush but for a lot of us including myself we used that to build our businesses from cash to crate and lasting contacts to provide a real future as prices dropped and the market stabilized loosely. we work those longer hours and find those markets and ways to increase our profits were we can and process more to keep the same income level from those same materials. this allowed us to make that money while others used theres as a broken piggy bank.
    the biggest news will be the generation of secondary waste from all of us that have no outlet for plastic and other things, we have graded and priced all we can to build and grow this market but its those bulk items that are in abundance we generate that needs the most attention given to that recycling centers and such outlets can grow to accommodate these specialty needs and build this secondary tier we all need and by doing so create the demand for these recycled goods and in the process make it profitable for everyone.
    truly recycling 99-100% of what we take in

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    I agree Travis. I think we have to have more outlets for those secondary tiers as you say or profits from this new generation of ewaste could be nullified.

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    For once I have to agree with TRAVIS......when times were good I saved the majority of my money and now have the option to be more selective about the Ewaste I am purchasing........Here lately my favorite phrase is "NOTHING GOOD LASTS FOREVER".......Oh well the future for Gold appears to be better and scrap prices have leveled out and appear to be slightly on the rise

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    Keep in mind that a gold mine is only a gold mine until the easy gold runs out, then it becomes a business. There is no positive outcome to bemoaning the end of easy money, there is only the next river to be crossed, the next mountain to scaled, the next day to be spent. In the end, happiness is of far greater worth than easy cash.

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    A useful page to read.

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    I don't see why all local communities don't have a recycling dumpster for e-waste like they do now with plastics and glass. I agree sooner or later it will all be recycled, at that point it will be done by the community for profit and the middle men will be cut out completely.

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