Cardboard Recycling

[usalim000]

Hi,
I want to buy scrap cardboard in bulk - like supermarkets waste.
What would be a good starting point?

Thanks

 

[SamStones]

Get out the phone book and phone businesses in your area. Ask what they do with their waste, perhaps an opening line of "how much do you get paid for the cardboard waste you produce?".

We currently pay £5 / week for a 1100 litre Euro Bin, collected weekly with scrap cardboard and pallet wrap. If you told me you would collect it for free I'd be saving £5 / week so £260 / year, if you told me you'd pay me for it then I'd me saving / making even more.

Good luck

 

[Amazin]

Are there any money to be made from recycling Cardboards

 

[MorrisChesterfield]

hi,

i own a recycling company, we have a baler which bales 500kg mill size, the prices have dropped at least 45% in 2 months, it is starting to go back up, but the prob is your need so much to make a bale, roughly 2 luton vans full to make 1 bale. the bale is worth about £25ish at the mo.

alot of the supermarkets bale all the own card and sell it, i think asda have a huge plant just off the m62.

dont want to put a down on it, but rather you know how it is.

ben

 

[usalim000]

hi,

i own a recycling company, we have a baler which bales 500kg mill size, the prices have dropped at least 45% in 2 months, it is starting to go back up, but the prob is your need so much to make a bale, roughly 2 luton vans full to make 1 bale. the bale is worth about £25ish at the mo.

alot of the supermarkets bale all the own card and sell it, i think asda have a huge plant just off the m62.

dont want to put a down on it, but rather you know how it is.

ben

Thanks Morris Self Storage - markets are just getting tighter and tighter.

 

[Vintage06]

Also getting the carboard bails contaminated is always a problem.

Ie plastics thrown in to the carboard bailer or food etc etc.

 

[smithmark42241d]

It's not only for money but saving the environment and the message your business is sending to customers by using recycling.

 

[MorrisChesterfield]

the op wants to start a recycling business is that right?

its is a very good route to go down tho, showing your aware of the environment.

ben

 

[Mammamias]

I own a restaurant in newcastle upon tyne and have been looking for companys to sell our packaging cardboard to as over half of our deliverys come packaged exstensively in cardboard. So i would say restaurants could be a good place to start as even pennys for large quantitys would be highly apreciated and would probably already have companys and systems in place.

 

[MorrisChesterfield]

Buying small volumes of loose cardboard is a waste of time.

Its worth about £50 - £60 per ton once baled. We have a full luton box of card the other day and i emptied the baler for a rial run and it half filled the baler. So its 4 x 14ft luton box vans FULL to make a ton.

If you have the space you are best buying a small 75kg baler, then you might get somebody who will buy it.

Ben.

 

[jonto15]

If you have the space you are best buying a small 75kg baler, then you might get somebody who will buy it.

Ben.

Good Evening, I have the space to store/bale plenty of cardboard and I am able to get a constant amount of it. But what is the stage after the baling? who buys it? Or how do you get ££ back

Thanks

 

[jonto15]

Anybody able to point me in the right direction?

 

[MorrisChesterfield]

Hi,

Give Smurfit kappa a call or d s smith. Their paying around £70per ton at the mo.

Ben.