Tampa Florida, Paper plastic & glass?

Originally Posted by Thecamokid

This is an old post, but is there any more info on plastics and glass? I don't get a lot because I have no market but I could make some bales and fill an old semi trailer if its decent... Im on the east coast of florida (almost due east of tampa) and I found this company, CP recycling, in Orlando, that says they buy it all but I haven't found any prices or any other buyers.. I am always looking for new stuff to sell, especially my trash haha. Any help is appreciated.

there is no money at the retail level in recycling paper cardboard, plastic or glass. large generators can make money because they do not have to pay to landfill it... take Cardboard it's worth $25 a ton as scrap, but costs $100 to landfill, so to a department store it is worth $125 per ton, and they are making a ton a day so getting a company to come out and haul off a truck load a week is economically feasible. you driving around picking up 100 Lbs per day is a hugh loser

Government subsidies make this sort of thing even more lucrative. but good subsidies never benefit the common man, he does not pay enough taxes, Hawaii's bottle bill is a great example , Bottlers pay a fee for every bottle distributed in the state which is placed in a special fund. that money is payed to "wholesalers" think scrap yards for recycling the bottles so bottles are worth $.04 /Lb all the time BTW most of Hawaii's bottles become asphalt since there is no gravel there it saves (guess who. the state) a fortune on importing gravel. the state saves money, the recyclers make money ( they where supposed to export the glass, but are using(selling) it locally. of course the bottlers just pass the cost of the original fee on to the beverage buyers( this is very much like a VAT... a hidden tax most Hawaii residents dont even know about it).

NOW this is not all bad since the main goal of this was to keep bottles out of Hawaii's very limited landfill space... that is happening, and in a closed loop is beneficial to all. Florida could do the same thing since it also suffers from a gravel shortage, but the problem as California can attest is people from neighboring states would try to dump their bottles in florida that did not have a subsidy paid on them

V/r HT1

P.S. My information about the Hawaii bottle bill is 15 years old and may have changed, but that is exactly how it was in 2000.