[PrintOwners] Recycling

[Brian O'Day]

In our area recycling is VERY important. The waste hauler has to provide a
container and remove our recyclable stuff for FREE! We can even mix paper,
cardboard, metal and plastic bottles in the same dumpster. With that said we
pay $155 per month to have our small dumpster of garbage removed weekly. 

Brian O'Day
ePrint
9970 SW Greenburg Rd
Portland, Oregon
brianoday at eprint.us
503-684-2679 


-----Original Message-----
From: printowners-bounces at printweb.org
[mailto:printowners-bounces at printweb.org] On Behalf Of Rick Foster
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:58 PM
To: Discussion List for Printing Business Owners Only
Subject: Re: [PrintOwners] Recycling

***** This is a PrintOwners List Message *****

In reference to the message sent by James Diorio, on 1/25/08, at 
10:32 AM -0600:

>We fill a 5 yard dumpster once a week with all our cutting scraps 
>for  recycling.  When we originally talked to the recycling company 
>they  said they would pay us for the paper, of course we have never 
>seen a  check and i was curious if anyone else actually gets money 
>for their  recycled paper?

No, we pay to have it taken away. Years ago I use to haul it off 
myself, take a truck load to the recycler and get about $20. Over 
time it became less and less till they finally told me the could take 
it but not give me anything. I called the garbage/recycling company, 
they set me up with a recycle dumpster that cost me $10.00 every time 
they pick up. I'm on a two week schedule, so for $20 a month I pay to 
recycle vs. put it in the regular trash which is $55 per month for 
the same size dumpster. I save about $35 a month by recycling.

My best trip to the recycler ever was about 4 years ago. I had got 
lazy about breaking down boxes for the dumpster and had parent cases 
full of cardboard sitting around. I had enough cardboard to fill the 
dumpster 3 times. I loaded up the truck with over 20 25x38x6 parent 
cartons all full of broken down boxes, cardboard sheets, etc. plus 
all the loose cardboard I could find in the shop. Filled up the back 
of the truck from front to back to the top of the canopy. I don't 
know what I was expecting by taking it in, but when they paid me for 
my load, which I had to not only load into the truck, but also off 
load by myself I got a whole $2.13. At 10 m.p.g. and it being a 20 
mile trip to the recycler even back then with lower gas prices it 
cost me 3 times in fuel to do the right thing and save the planet 
than I got in return, and that doesn't include my time. Now days when 
the recycle bin is full everything else goes in the regular garbage 
dumpster.
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Rick

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