Ok, so you own or run a Mall or Outler Center, or Shopping Center, or anything that has multiple stores. You want to recycle but can’t figure out a way to make it worth the effort. We have a solution just for you.
Up to now, you either had to bale the cardboard or if sold loose, you got very little money for the OCC. But there is a new trend that might just change your mind about recyling. Waste haulers are taking OCC in containers and baling it themselves before they sell it to the recycling mill. What has changed their minds? What else – MONEY! There is money to be made in recycled cardboard and waste haulers everywhere are realizing that by not properly servicing these untapped generators of cardboard, they are missing some of that money. So many have begun accepting cardboard in unbaled BUT COMPACTED form. What does that mean?
To make the pickup of the cardboard profitable, the OCC must be available in 3 – 5 ton “packages” meaning containers where the cardboard has been compacted. Commercial stationary compactors or even self-contained compactors are making there mark at these centers. Now many centers are placing these compactors near the back doors of the stores who generate this cardboard. That way the store owers can place the cardboard into a compactor, push a button and walk away. With individual store employees doing the work, expensive labor costs are removed from the equation making it profitable for the centers to have very good returns on their investment!
Stationary compactors like the one shown above, are bolted to the back lot where various sized containers can be attached which cover the open end. The roll off container is then emptied when ther are 4- 5 tons of compressed cardboard inside. With a locked access door and keyed operation, these compactors are safe to be left in public areas where no one can access the compactor to dispose of personal garbage and not one can get hurt by crawling inside. And returns on investments are proving to be 6 – 12 months! Hard to beat getting your investment back in less than a year, but that is being shown over and over again all over the country.
But how do you determine full loads of cardboard. Technology has improved to the point where fail safe detection of 3/4 and full loads to be sure that when the cardboard is hauled away, enough OCC is present to make it well worth the effort. Instead of getting less than 0ne ton loads in a typical open top roll off container, 4 or 5 ton loads are common in compaction containers. These new detection systems flash when 3/4 full or the lights remain on steady when full and have “no false reading” capabilities. You will know when you need to have these containers picked up saving money by requiring less “pulls” per year. For your consideration, below is a link to a brochure on just one of these systems.
Turn your cardboard into cash and impress the heck out of your boss!
