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Paper recycling - an easy source of extra income f
PAPER RECYCLING AN EASY SOURCE OF EXTRA INCOME FOR ANYONE
One of the easiest (and best) ways of making extra money is by
collecting old newspapers and selling them to a "recycling plant" in
your area.
Just look around your own home - in the garage or the basement.
What do you do with the old newspapers after you've read them? Most
likely they just pile up in a corner of the garage or basement until
one of your kids asks if he can haul them off for the school or cub
scout paper drive. Or maybe your wife and kids get ambitious some
week end, clean out the garage and haul all those newspapers off to
the collection truck at the local shopping center.
It's true that selling stacks of newspapers you've accumulated
during the past couple of months or so won't make you rich, or
really amount to much extra income. But think about the stacks of
old newspapers you would have if you were to collect and haul away
for the people in your neighborhood - say a ten-pound stack of
newspapers from each house on your street every Saturday. The
picture changes, doesn't it?
If you're serious, and get yourself properly organized, you can
easily make $300 or more every weekend.
Right now the going rate for old newspapers is about $50 a ton,
depending upon your area. Most recycling depots prefer the papers
loose, rather than bundled or sacked. Check with the recycling
plant you plan to sell to before delivery to them. Cardboard -
ordinary cardboard boxes that have been flattened - is bringing
approximately $75 a ton. If you're going to collect old newspapers,
you may just as well take cardboard too. Most people have old boxes
around that are just taking up space, and some will even pay you to
get rid of them.
You start by clearing a space in your garage for storage. One side
of a two-car garage, or just an 8 by 12 foot space would be
sufficient. If you have a garden shed that is dry, that would work
well also. Some collectors even rent space in a neighborhood
mini-warehouse.
Next, you should place an ad in your community newspaper or the
weekly shopping news, something like this: Junk, old newspapers and
cardboard boxes hauled away. Phone 123-4567. Then you visit your
neighbors. Tell them you are collecting and hauling away all the
old newspapers and boxes in he neighborhood each week. You might
even offer them $5 a month if they'll have everything ready for you
when you make your weekend collection rounds.
On Saturdays, starting at about 9:00 a.m., rent an open trailer and
hitch it to your car. If you have a pick-up truck, so much the
better. With your wife and kids, a couple of neighbor boys, or
perhaps a couple of teenage "huskies" you've hired through your
local high school, start making your rounds.
You drive the car with the trailer. Your helpers, one on each side
of the side, knock on each door and ask the residents if they have
any old newspapers or cardboard boxes you can haul away for them.
It would be advantageous for you to have a large sign on each side
of your trailer, and on each side of the car as well. It might
read: Paper Collection Service.
Visit the people you've talked to on your block first. That will
give you some paper in the trailer and from there, you just expand.
Go to the next block and the next, driving up and down the streets,
visiting, stopping at all the homes, in an ever expanding ripple
from your own street.
When your trailer is full of old newspapers, you can either take
them directly to your recycling plant and sell the load, or take
them to your storage area, unload them, and get everything
organized. It's very important, though, that you get right back to
the job of knocking on doors and collecting more newspapers and
cardboard.
Some people will (foolishly) collect a load, take it in for sale,
and then waste time gloating over the easy money they've just made.
One load won't make you rich or even really pay for your time. Get
right back on the job and collect as many loads as the daylight
hours will allow.
Make the same rounds; follow the same collection routes, at least
once every two weeks. Once you've got the routine working well,
you'll be ready to hire a couple of high school or college students
to help, perhaps with another car and trailer.
The best way to pay your help is with a percentage of the tonnage
you sell. And then too, once you have it all together, you'll want
to go with a truck or trailer that allows you to haul a couple of
tons of paper per load.
It's important that you make regular rounds, calling on the same
houses regularly. After about six months of this, you'll be ready
to open a local recycling depot.
This simply means taking the accumulation of paper out of your home
or garden shed and moving it to a business location. Because of
your advertising in the newspapers, and the sign on your truck or
trailer, people will be calling you during the week to come and pick
up paper they have ready for you. Also, your neighbors will very
likely be dropping by with armloads of paper for you from time to
time, as well. Specifically, these are the reasons you'll need
storage space to store the paper in your garage or other storage
area until you have enough to load up and take to the recycling
plant.
One of the best locations for your recycling depot is an abandoned
or closed down service station. Or perhaps a vacant lot, or even a
corner of a large shopping center parking area. You'll need a scale
(you can rent or lease one of these for a small amount), and a quick
set-up tent or large truck.
What you want to do is establish a location where people can come to
you. They bring their newspapers, you weigh what they've brought
and pay them a penny a pound for newspapers and two cents a pound
for cardboard boxes. You can hire someone to man this center for
you during the day, or perhaps only open between 4 and 6 o'clock in
the afternoons. Advertise your hours, and be dependable, so that
people can count on you.
To establish your location, you'll have to check with the owner or
management, and agree not to interfere with their regular mode of
business. If you do go to a shopping center parking lot, sell them
on the idea that your recycling depot - clean and neat - will
actually bring more people into the shopping center on a regular
basis. The important thing always is to establish yourself in the
best possible location for the least amount of money from your
pocket.
Even though you have a collection depot, you'll still want to
continue your week end collection rounds. But with a collection
depot, you can hire other people to do the driving, knock on doors,
make the collections and transfer their loads into the depot
facility. If it's a big truck or trailer, you'll be selling ten to
fifteen tons of paper when ever you make your trips to the recycling
plant.
Another important thing you should think about doing is getting the
whole community involved with you. Get them to thinking about
recycling paper and selling it to you. Run some promotions; work
for free publicity; and be conspicuous. Don't be embarrassed;
everyone is aware of the need for recycling everything that can be
recycled. And you'll be admired as someone with the ambition to make
it happen.
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