Well last month was probably the peak for cardboard prices in 2016. Prices this month went down $10 a ton but my buyer is still willing to take all I can sell him. But the price cut is a suggestion to slow down on the collections. I'm OK with that since I'm getting close to $100 a ton and I was going full throttle for the past two months and need a break. Now I'm just collecting from my regular pick-up spots and a few retailers in surrounding towns. It's enough to keep me and my employees busy and I only spend a half day working on weekends now. My buyer feels pretty confident about demand for cardboard staying strong next year. I look at the residential recyclables and Amazon and Walmart boxes are everywhere. So it looks like my next move is to try and grow a bit more. Probably adding a part-timer to start and leasing another truck for collections. New goal post is 300 tons a month and 500 a month during peak demand season. I finally took in my metal scrap to the local yard and got almost $300 for about 2.5 tons of scrap. That cleared out a spot in the yard which I just filled with about 5,000 books delivered from a local college on pallets. Looking if I can resell some of these or if my paper broker will take as is. Surprisingly I don't think I can get much for it as scrap paper. Will keep you all posted.
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