With the prices he's getting, I think he's in a state of bliss.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catfish Bob
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With the prices he's getting, I think he's in a state of bliss.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catfish Bob
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Originally Posted by Catfish Bob
#1 plastic bottles $.38 lb.
#1 plastic bottles for 38 cents a pound??? wow, im trying to figure out the florida plastic market, and that right there makes me want to get it off the back burner and learn all I can soon because I give away all my plastic to the county in a recycle bin, but I have access to quite a bit, and I would rather make the money than give it to them haha
Trust me it's not .38 right now..
if that is an accurate price, it is most likely fore a baled trailer load
yep $.38 lb #1 plastic CRV smashed from top. Yes AZ is NOT a Deposit State but places buying and Advertising these rates here! This was 52 poundsQuote:
Originally Posted by ResourcefulRecycling
Also ResourcefulRecycling are you in Michigan? I would think your per pound rate for #1 plastic bottles would be MUCH higher as you have a $.10 deposit on them....
Only bottles with a deposit are pop/soda and beer containers. Its only carbonated items and does not include water, lemonade, and other non carbonated beverages...
No more paper buyer here. Also place that buys glass and better prices on plastics limited hours open, pain in the ass, open when they have money to pay you... So no more glass or paper for me. And now taking my plastics to a place that pays less $.04 #2 plastic and $.15 #1 plastic other than water bottles. I can still get $.30 - $.40 for the plastic water and soda bottles at other places... Funny thing is a private land fill is offering $25 a ton for cardboard and $10 a ton for steel. Good to see other places are starting to buy even though the steel price is bad.
in missouri I have seen $150 a cord of seasoned firewood from the wood you choose.oak walnut ash elm and maple. Im thinking about getting a 1/4 cord for $40 just because I live in a apt and not alot of room for piling wood.
Another place buying #2 plastic they pay $.08 a pound any type (color, natural color or crv gal water and juice)
As for wood my buddy just got 1000 pounds of Mesquite wood 1/4 of it cut to size in an alley by my house. He should be ok with wood for his bbq pit!
Price update...
Cardboard $.01 lb.
Glass jars and wine and liquor bottles $.03 lb.
Glass beer bottles $.04 lb.
#2 Plastic color $.07 lb.
#2 Plastic clear / natural $.10 lb.
#1 plastic other than beverage $.15 lb.
#1 plastic beverage $.30 - 40 lb.
Aluminum cans $.70 - .85 lb.
Bulk maple syrup 2.10/lb
or for our friends up north 2.91/lb on the Canadian dollar.
Sell your glass liquor bottles on eBay, better than scrap price. Although it can be a fair amount of work for the value.
That's crazy! People will buy anything. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by lousypirate
Should save all the metal caps from glass beer bottles and sell them on eBay too.. People buy them for crafts.
We still have strawberries and great seedless watermelons at the dollar store. My wife sells her plastic water bottles to the guy down town for .50 cents a pound. He buys aluminum cans if they are crushed for $1.10 a pound. $1.00 if not crushed. Sold my shred steel this morning for 3 cents a pound up from 2 1/2 cents last week. The guy at the yard told me copper has gone up significantly. He must know I have about 300 pounds of number one and about the same in number copper stashed. I have at least 500 pounds of insulated wire. Not going to sell it yet. No one here buys old plastic milk, glass or colored plastic containers. They all go in the city recycle bin. Thanks to the snowbirds-(winter visitors) prices for anything like pecans or citrus is sky high. I would stock up on pecans at .63 cents a pound. My wife bakes like crazy in the fall. People who have pecans growing in their yards here get anywhere from 5 to 6 bucks a pound from the snowbirds who love local grown stuff and pay up for it. I have a huge lemon tree that has lemons the size of grapefruits. I sell them two for a buck on Craigslist and sell them all.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
Price update...
Cardboard $.01 lb.
Glass jars and wine and liquor bottles $.03 lb.
Glass beer bottles $.05 lb.
#2 Plastic color $.12 lb.
#2 Plastic clear / natural $.15 lb.
#1 plastic other than beverage $.40 lb.
#1 plastic beverage $.45 lb.
Aluminum cans $.85 lb.
Prices are better, but you need coupon, have to crush item, or bonus price day in order to get some of these prices...
Price update...
Cardboard $.01 lb.
Glass jars and wine and liquor bottles $.03 lb.
Glass beer bottles $.04 lb.
#2 Plastic color $.02 lb.
#2 Plastic clear / natural $.10 lb.
#1 plastic mixed crv and non crv $.30 - $.40 lb.
Aluminum cans $.85 - $95 lb.
you may need coupon, may have to crush item, or bonus price day in order to get some of these prices...
Wow that’s impressive on the aluminum cans, and lower than we are here in Florida on cardboard.
I’m getting 4 cents a pound for cardboard and 35 cents for aluminum cans
Hm so you mean places buy these things from you? Do all states have such places?Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
Not all states.Quote:
Originally Posted by mike1
Some states dump millions into recycling programs that lose money. According to Google Search, 5 tons of #1 scrap plastic ( clean ) is about $350 wholesale on the open market.
On a side note: purified and processed plastic pellets start at around $0.60 /lb wholesale .
Price update...
Cardboard $.01 lb.
#2 Plastic color $.02 lb.
#2 Plastic clear / natural $.02 lb.
#1 plastic mixed crv and non crv $.30 - $.40 lb.
Aluminum cans $.85 - $95 lb.
you may need coupon, may have to crush item, or bonus price day in order to get some of these prices...
No longer a glass buyer, and not worth it for cardboard $.01 lb. or #2 plastics color and natural only place buying is at $.02.
#1 plastic down to $.15-.25 lb
Alum cans down to $.65-.75 lb
Here in Mesa Az they stopped buying plastic bottles. The city has said to throw glass bottles in the landfill. No one is buying. Shred is sad literally giving it away. I haul at least a ton at a time. Copper has picked up so I do sell my bare bright and make money. My local scrap yard used to be over full now it's near empty on average. What's going on in your neck of the woods?
Bad here as well. Plastic water bottles $.15 City still taking most everything in the recycling bins just no place will buy the product and it is stacking up. Sheet iron $100 net ton. Most of the good paying alum can and plastic places have shut down. Aluminum cans $.65Quote:
Originally Posted by Repurposer
Price update
Cardboard no buyer
#2 plastic color no buyer
#2 plastic clear / natural no buyer
#1 plastic $.15 - $.25
Glass bottles and jars no buyer
Aluminum cans $.65 - $.75
Cardboard ( 600# bale ) $25 - minimum 6 bales (( last I looked ))
Edit: Up the road from me is the Owens-Illinois plant - the guy on the phone said they pay $14 /ton for clean crushed clear glass - minimum is 1,000 tons.
Update:
I was talking to the guy at the glass plant - they are now paying $16 /ton for clear glass that is clean and crushed ... still has a 1,000 ton minimum.
Apparently they won't buy colored glass due to how difficult it is to get consistent batch colors.
Price update
Alum cans $.75 un crushed to get this price. Flattened cans pay $.30
#1 plastic beverage bottles $.20 other #1 plastic $.10
Price update
Alum cans $.75 - $.80
#1 plastic beverage $.20 - $.25
#1 plastic containers non crv $.10
Sold a load of 40x48 4 way pallets today. 17 pallets, $51 or $3 each for grade A non block pallets
Nice!Quote:
Originally Posted by greytruck
I get $2 a piece for 40x48 that don't need repair. Over the last 2 weeks, I've dropped off 157. Usually about 50 percent are good.
#1 plastic beverage $.15 lb.
$4.50 ea for the blue chep or red peco pallets. Scrap yard i use buys them for their other yard, a truck wrecker co. they use them for their engines / transmissions they pull from the trucks
https://wilkinsrebuilders.com/about-us-2/
$.15 lb. #1 Plastic beverage bottles.
Crazy stuff. They actually pay for # 1 plastic ?:-oQuote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
We have to pay about $ 500.00 / ton to get rid of our single sort recycling. (Single sort is a mix of plastic,metal cans,and a lot of cardboard.)