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    Any leads on the Kentucky or Ohio Valley for Plastic or Glass Buyers

    Anyone know of any plastic or glass buyers in the Kentucky or Ohio Valley area?

    Anyone know of paper buyers other than SP Recycling?



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    thats about it unless u want to travel.

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    Where's SP Recycling- Louisville?
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    off of fern valley rd near I-65
    Where r u from?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrapette View Post
    Where's SP Recycling- Louisville?
    It is on Industrial Blvd.

    Corrugated Cardboard-$40 ton
    Newspaper-$35 ton
    Mixed paper-$30 ton

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    Quote Originally Posted by Focker View Post
    off of fern valley rd near I-65
    Where r u from?
    Northern part of KY east of Cincinnati.

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    i know this is an older thread,,,but if it helps any there are a couple paper buyers around 45629 area code in portsmouth ohio and ashland kentucky......i only know the price of cardboard and magazines....card board is between 2.50 and 3.50 per hundred and magazines are between 1.00 and 1,50 per hundred.....the cardboard goes up and down a lot...

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    yeah that stuff isnt worth messing with imo

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    The Cohen in middletown buys plastic bottles for .05/lb. Woof!

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    there are 3 families that i know of around here that collectt all the cardboard.....they must profit from it.. they have hauled it for years....i dont see how they come out ahead myself maybe they just know something i dont.....say 30 dollars for 1000 lbs i geuse if they hauled 2000lbs of cardboard and get good gas mileage they could make a little.....might work for someone drawing a pension but i dont see someone making a living from it........of course unless you have a real good constant free supply of cardboard

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    yeah $60 a ton thats alot of cardboard to drive around and get like i said it is not worth messing with

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    there used to be money in cardboard.last year thats all i did. mostley by myself.i made right at 50.000 dollars that year.but i picked up right at a million pounds. 7 days a week 15 hours a day. later greg

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    Quote Originally Posted by wadarbr549 View Post
    there are 3 families that i know of around here that collectt all the cardboard.....they must profit from it.. they have hauled it for years....i dont see how they come out ahead myself maybe they just know something i dont.....say 30 dollars for 1000 lbs i geuse if they hauled 2000lbs of cardboard and get good gas mileage they could make a little.....might work for someone drawing a pension but i dont see someone making a living from it........of course unless you have a real good constant free supply of cardboard
    from what I have read in other scattered posts, you get payed a lot better if you sell it by the tractor trailer load, or at least are a regular and negotiate.
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    There is a guy in my town who has the contracts for the recycling roll off containers that waste management puts out. He gets it all. He pulls out all the cardboard and sells the rest to another company to recycle. He only keeps the cardboard..... He makes right around $400,000 a year. He sends all the cardboard to China. Not sure how much he makes selling rest of the recycling though....but he makes bank! What shocked me was he has the room to process all the metal that comes in those roll-offs(which is a LOT) and he doesn't do it.....crazy. Another thing that helps him is he has all this delivered to him. He does some pickups, but the bulk is is just laid at his feet.....if someone had the inclination to do so, I'm sure someone else with the capacity could STEAL that contract.


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    Any leads on the Kentucky or Ohio Valley for Plastic or Glass Buyers

    yea I dont understand it either, I met a guy at the local store and he was grabbin there cardboard and he said he been at it for a few years. Said its just abundant and you can find cardboard just about anywhere and all the stores are happy to let you take it. Ive seen it pre bundled behind a few stores and thought about it but it was to heavy to load by myself and the money isnt to appealing to me as compared to a load of metal


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