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    You wont have any luck selling the plastic shredded. And the bales have to be 800-1000lbs for any serious buyers to be interested. Just want to give you a heads up...



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    I have two buyers here in Columbus, Ohio.
    "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage." Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rollyrogers33 View Post
    I have two buyers here in Columbus, Ohio.
    In the interest of fairness, since you have two and we have none here, you ought to send one a packing up to Canada

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    I recently just took in 234 lbs of mixed plastic @ .04/lb = $9.36.

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    sounds better than shred!

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    In the last month I've thrown away almost 1000 lbs of mixed. Still looking.

    .04 is better than shred here.

    I was wrong. Shred is .05 a lb.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimicrk View Post
    In the last month I've thrown away almost 1000 lbs of mixed. Still looking.

    .04 is better than shred here.
    Ouch can you contact the city about at least having it recycled for free??

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeinreco View Post
    Ouch can you contact the city about at least having it recycled for free??
    I've tried to give it away but nobody wants it. All of the recycling facilities around here use to take all plastic 1-7. Now they just want #1 and #2 plastic so all of mine ends up in the landfill.

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    I ran into the same problem in nashville

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    I just took in another 150 lbs @ .04/lb to free up space in my storage locker. I can't stand going to this place because of the customer service sucks. After I dropped all the plastic and 35 lbs of low grade board .12/lb, they cut me a check for a little over $11. The guy came over and handed me my check like I was so pathetic for bringing all that for $11.30. I almost want to not even give them my business.

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    Folks in my area (Milwaukee area) I can take your ABS plastic for FREE. It has to be clean with absolutely no metal. I have a local outlet but as pointed out above, it has to be baled and bales have to be 60" in length and weigh at least 800 pounds. And then...it is only 4 cents or so a pound.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rollyrogers33 View Post
    I just took in another 150 lbs @ .04/lb to free up space in my storage locker. I can't stand going to this place because of the customer service sucks. After I dropped all the plastic and 35 lbs of low grade board .12/lb, they cut me a check for a little over $11. The guy came over and handed me my check like I was so pathetic for bringing all that for $11.30. I almost want to not even give them my business.
    F them, they handed you the check!

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    I wish I was able to get .04 for ABS. There is a place about 40 miles from me that takes it for free so I have brought about 1.5 tons there over the course of a year so at least it would stay out of a landfill.

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    I believe the price is .06 or .07/lb if white plastic is sorted and by itself.


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