you have to have a commercial baler and have ALOT for most companies to want to do business with you....I have done the research. Generally 1/2 to a full tractor trailer load of baled stuff to get anything worth anything.
Plastics and paper VARY in price by type...you CAN get upwards of $200-300/ton for some paper (ie white office paper), but there are about 6 different main types. Plastics are similar...ALOT of different types...clear bottle water generally will get you the most all the way down to ABS (almost the bottom) and then mixed plastics of course that pay the least. Again there are 8-10 types and sorting by color will get you more $$$ (for instance ABS can be sorted into beige and then the rest (basically mixed to make black) but there is a market if you get enough of the apple WHITE ABS. AGAIN YMMV.....commercial bales run 800-1000 pound per bale and the baler runs $3-8K for a vertical one and ALOT more for a horizontal one.
Obviously you will need the space to store and the equipment....I am looking at it as a possibility since no one locally does it and I am close enough to send to Atlanta for processing (I am right outside Athens, GA)......again it would COMPLIMENT my ewaste stuff and really only since no one else is doing it. Plus a baler can be had for cheap...really all you need.
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