Originally Posted by
Ewasted
By compaction rate i dont mean bale size, i mean the density of the bale. A vertical baler won't get you there. Plastics for maximum recovery (atleast in current market) are exported, so they dont go into a 53' truck, they are loaded into a 40 foot container.
More good information.. The best way to sell your plastic is find a buyer overseas and ship direct to them. You nor they want to waste the space inside the container. Getting the most out of the space in the container is the name of the game. Anyone can fill a container full of a product, but doing it the most efficient way is how you make money and build good relationships with commodity buyers. If they get a container and it only weighs 30000, they are going to pay you much less than you deserve and might very well shy away from buying from you in the future. It is all a numbers game in the commodity market and square inch/lbs matters.
This is also why ewasted made the point that certain balers will work while others won't. The size of the bale doesn't matter nearly as much as the density. Balers are built to compact the product to this specific density. Each product has a different density benchmark. I dealt with cardboard for a long time and there were other things to worry about like moisture etc. With plastic, it is all about how much of it can be condensed into a specific size bale.
Bookmarks