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Good question for yall I live here in Tampa Florida a prime area for scrap metal, but one thing. While breaking down scrap and all i come across all kinds of plastic, plastic bottles, glass, and alot of paper. Anyone know where i can take that stuff to sell it? Mainly paper, but the other stuff would be nice, i dont much care for the price of it, id just like to know if theres anywhere i could take it and make a buck
AS far as the plastic is concerned , you said plastic bottles. I am not sure about those, but the mixed plastics from E-Waste can be sold at your local electronics recycling yard. You can also recycle paper for money. You might try doing a Google search on Recycling Paper in Tampa FL. I have heard of people recycling glass for $$$. However, I have never done it. There again a basic search using what ever search engine you prefer might get you closer to your answer. Start your search in Tampa, FL ... but if no luck, do not give up. Broaden your search area to near by cities. You just might find a valuable niche market, which could become VERY profitable.
Paper and cardboard by me only .015 a pound not worth it! Put it in the citys blue recycling bin!Quote:
Originally Posted by garrett
Plastic water bottles .30 a pound
Plastic milk jugs .10 a pound
Colored #2 plastic .02 a pound
They were taking glass for .06 a lb but just stopped taking it.
ABS plastic no one here buys so it can go in the blue recycling bin as well.
Yea, I just called them, finally found a place, and im just not liking $25 per ton, with a minimum of 500lbs. Looks like ill be sticking with car parts (which i cant find) appliances and what not haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
You can try calling Land 'O Lakes Recycling, I believe they buy plastic and cardboard. There is a place called American Recycling over in Drew Park that buys plastic.
Thanks for giving me the names of other places, like I said above I dont think its work it, quite frankly I dont have room to store enough paper to make a good bit of money. But Ill keep it on the back burnerQuote:
Originally Posted by cmcbuyer
This is an old post, but is there any more info on plastics and glass? I don't get a lot because I have no market but I could make some bales and fill an old semi trailer if its decent... Im on the east coast of florida (almost due east of tampa) and I found this company, CP recycling, in Orlando, that says they buy it all but I haven't found any prices or any other buyers.. I am always looking for new stuff to sell, especially my trash haha. Any help is appreciated.
there is no money at the retail level in recycling paper cardboard, plastic or glass. large generators can make money because they do not have to pay to landfill it... take Cardboard it's worth $25 a ton as scrap, but costs $100 to landfill, so to a department store it is worth $125 per ton, and they are making a ton a day so getting a company to come out and haul off a truck load a week is economically feasible. you driving around picking up 100 Lbs per day is a hugh loserQuote:
Originally Posted by Thecamokid
Government subsidies make this sort of thing even more lucrative. but good subsidies never benefit the common man, he does not pay enough taxes, Hawaii's bottle bill is a great example , Bottlers pay a fee for every bottle distributed in the state which is placed in a special fund. that money is payed to "wholesalers" think scrap yards for recycling the bottles so bottles are worth $.04 /Lb all the time BTW most of Hawaii's bottles become asphalt since there is no gravel there it saves (guess who. the state) a fortune on importing gravel. the state saves money, the recyclers make money ( they where supposed to export the glass, but are using(selling) it locally. of course the bottlers just pass the cost of the original fee on to the beverage buyers( this is very much like a VAT... a hidden tax most Hawaii residents dont even know about it).
NOW this is not all bad since the main goal of this was to keep bottles out of Hawaii's very limited landfill space... that is happening, and in a closed loop is beneficial to all. Florida could do the same thing since it also suffers from a gravel shortage, but the problem as California can attest is people from neighboring states would try to dump their bottles in florida that did not have a subsidy paid on them
V/r HT1
P.S. My information about the Hawaii bottle bill is 15 years old and may have changed, but that is exactly how it was in 2000.