Starting in co-mingled recycling

**Gravitar** · 09-25-2018, 07:14 PM

So an update, after talking to my sales prof he said that I shouldn't give up yet but before I try and provide this service I need to figure out what service I'm actually providing. And by that I mean:
- What materials will I accept?
- Who will buy what I have? What kind of quantity do I need to have before someone will buy it?
- I need to figure out a way to separate myself from my competitor, aka find commodities that nobody has done anything with yet up here. For example, when I ran a similar service years ago when I first started I found ways to recycle Styrofoam and plastic films and other weird things like ABS plastic. Living in Austin was perfect for this because its a very green city and my current city is not like that.
- How am I helping my customer? How am I making their business easier/improved?

Among other things. Those are really obvious questions but since I can't give a direct answer right now with all the unknowns, I think I need to spend this time learning more about the industry on a commercial scale, and that's why I'm trying to get an internship at a scrap or trash company.

But I haven't given up. I'm still going to be scrapping and I made my first E-waste purchase since 2015 right after that meeting. Getting 30+ iMacs for $50 tomorrow. Should make a decent profit. Keep grinding and moving forward.

**sathyashrayan** · 09-26-2018, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by Gravitar

So an update, after talking to my sales prof he said that I shouldn't give up yet but before I try and provide this service I need to figure out what service I'm actually providing. And by that I mean:
- What materials will I accept?
- Who will buy what I have? What kind of quantity do I need to have before someone will buy it?
- I need to figure out a way to separate myself from my competitor, aka find commodities that nobody has done anything with yet up here. For example, when I ran a similar service years ago when I first started I found ways to recycle Styrofoam and plastic films and other weird things like ABS plastic. Living in Austin was perfect for this because its a very green city and my current city is not like that.
- How am I helping my customer? How am I making their business easier/improved?

Among other things. Those are really obvious questions but since I can't give a direct answer right now with all the unknowns, I think I need to spend this time learning more about the industry on a commercial scale, and that's why I'm trying to get an internship at a scrap or trash company.

But I haven't given up. I'm still going to be scrapping and I made my first E-waste purchase since 2015 right after that meeting. Getting 30+ iMacs for $50 tomorrow. Should make a decent profit. Keep grinding and moving forward.

I am not sure if you will take my suggestion. I am a greenfield start-up company incorporated according to Indian law. The main business model is to act as a middle man between aluminium companies around India. I am more looking for 6063 extrusion alloys. I would be starting from the city of chennai soon. As of now I got a GST registration (something like VAT) and waiting for Import permits (Import export code (IEC) number).

In the future I am planning to tryout more ideas like copper separation in insulated wire, e-waste recycling etc

If we can work together in the future having you acting as a bulk aluminium scrap supplier then lets look into possibilities.

My registered company name : "QUALSTEEL ENTERPRISES (OPC) PRIVATE LIMITED"

Company incorporation number (CIN) Number: U90009TN2018OPC122713

GST Number: 33AAACQ5395H1ZB

If you would like to contact me then please mail me at "my full name as it is" @ qualsteel DOT co DOT in