Just a quick update from me: Last week I convinced one of the office towers in downtown Philly to send me all their paper recyclables for free. I was in downtown for a meeting and saw a bunch of metal shelves in the loading dock that I thought were garbage. The building manager was there and said he was waiting for his waste company to drop a roll-off container to collect the shelves. It was going to cost him an extra $700. I said I'll come back with my truck the next day and won't charge you anything. We talked some more and he said I could have the paper recyclables every week. Turns out they had not been recycling much at all as their waste company was mixing their recyclables along with the regular trash. The building manager noticed this and wasn't too pleased after having his staff and tenants separate their waste. I went back the next day and picked up the shelves along with some wooden office furniture. Brought the load over to a scrap yard and got $75 (there was some aluminum with the steel). Now I think I can collect about a ton of paper and cardboard from them each week which adds up to about $3000 per year. I doubt that I am putting a dent in the waste company's revenues but I am convinced that it is pretty easy to take business away from them. Scrap on people!
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