What type of yard should you open????

Last loads of paper I recently sold for the company I work for were OCC ($115/ton), Mixed paper ($53/ton), and #8 News ($90/ton). That is after transport charges and broker fees. All three were full loads of 22 tons each.



I am thinking broker fees were around $5/ton and transport fees were probably $1200 or so depending if it was a back haul or not.

Well let's do a little math OCC CARDBOARD recycling prices are $60.00 a ton, mixed paper they will take for nothing, and newspaper is $50.00 a ton, I think the price on mixed office paper they got was a little low, I can tell you that those profit margins are a lot better than yards make on steel and tin.also most paper recycling company's create there own markets and set the prices they pay with little or no competition, not to shabby. And no government regulations.