Expanding into other recyclables worth money - Page 2

If it is setting there bailed, chances are they are recycling it and did not mean for someone to come along and gank it on them. I would be upset if it was mine and someone took it. What if it was yours and someone took it?

Originally Posted by Kris Kringle

How many times have you walked away Handcuffed?

Not enough, apparently.

yes we have written permission to take them from a few different stores!

None. Never been stopped but if we were stopped we always have the paperwork we need to prove we have permission to take the bales.

Originally Posted by trashman

currently cardboard is $145.00 per ton. my girl and i hunt behind stores for bales. it takes us about 3 to 5 minutes loading one that can weigh 300-1000 lbs. we have a low trailer and we come up on the bale with only one thought, " LETS GET IT!!! " we dont walk away empty handed.

That is like .07 a pound. Seems like a good price...

Originally Posted by "Gotta Girl"

yes we have written permission to take them from a few different stores!

Very good! Now go out and get some more!

AZ is not a bottle deposit state so plastic bottles go in the citys bins. But a new yard opened up that takes #1 plastic bottles for .30 a pound. It takes alot of them to make a pound though!

we have written permission to take them from a few different stores!

That's a real good deal, you got your you know what covered that way,,,

My wife works at Wally World.......... and good luck getting their bales! I think your being sarcastic anyways, but I can't tell. LOL
Anyone wanting to get into cardboard recycling should look into gas stations and smaller convenience stores about setting up a permanent bin....... they throw away ALOT of cardboard and that would all add up really fast! You would get a few ton a month at least..... then you would be a regular supplier for the recycling plant and they would probably provide a baler for you.

I suppose it's possible a company would have a baler and still give cardboard away. Would eventually save on trash fees.

Was at an auction a few years ago. Huge baler for sale. They couldn't even give it away. No one had a way to move it out.

Knowing what I know now, I would have tried to get it if I had the equipment to get it out.

Anyone in the DFW, Texas area know if there is anyone buying #1 plastic? I could not find anyone, but did not know if anyone might know of a place.

I would like to find someone in the Tucson area that buys cardboard. So far no luck

you also need to know that if you sell a bottle with a crv on it to a state that pays the crv and the bottles did not come from that state ie you have to cross state lines then you are committing a class 4 felony

I was picking up some carpet padding untill it went from 7 to 4 cents a lb.

Where did you find a buyer for used carpet padding?

Originally Posted by wavecrazed

I was picking up some carpet padding untill it went from 7 to 4 cents a lb.

Originally Posted by Catfish Bob

Hello, just want to say very glad to of found this place.
I been scrapping metal for about 4 years now, I'm 25 and get most of my scrap while out working, doing lawn service.
I have also done very good dumpster diving but here recently that has gone for the worst. I been ran off one site by a shop manager, stopped by the po po twice within the last month. So my scrapping and extra income has really taken a hit.

I been thinking about other materials that can be found much easier than metal such as paper and cardboard. Anyone have luck with these here?

What about plastic bottles that say .05 cents Michigan/etc....Those are everywhere here in Kentucky. I wonder if I collected enough to fill up a box truck if I could take to Michigan and get .05 a pop? No one in Ky buys scrap plastic bottles, we do have paper and cardboard buyers.

Hello. My name is Harold I am actually VERY NEW to this forum. As of about 20 minutes ago! I just wanted to let you know that I AM from Michigan and it is actually .10 cents per bottle. And YES, it does in fact add up pretty well. When my wife and I moved to Texas (last year) it drove my wife crazy to watch people throwing "returnable" cans, glass and plastic bottles away!