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> ”They're basically stockpiling until the plant is operational.” Sounds like a variant on the classic tire recycling scam: 1. Lowest bidder wins contract to
by Reason077 2y ago
> ”They're basically stockpiling until the plant is operational.”
Sounds like a variant on the classic tire recycling scam:
1. Lowest bidder wins contract to recycle tires, by offering to do it cheaper than anyone else.
2. Starts storing tires somewhere while they “get up and running”.
3. Discovers it’s cheaper to just keep storing the tires than to actually process them, besides they bid too low to make it viable anyway.
4. Years go by and eventually an enormous tire mountain is discovered (or maybe it catches fire), resulting in big cleanup costs usually paid by taxpayers…
- diggan 2y agoI guess somewhere there is a data to either prove or refute this. Look at all the current active recycling centers and look if they built stockpiles before. And which stockpiles actually disappeared after the center was operational, or which never started operating and the stockpile remained. If you really could uncover a conspiracy like this, I'm sure big newspapers would be happy to collaborate on releasing these news :)
- aorloff 2y agoPaper mills buy cardboard bales, in the $100-200/ton (it varies a lot) I assume there is a similar market at the aluminum plant for cans, and at the glass factory. I don't think the plastic is actually an input for anything yet.
- mulmen 2y agoI pay extra money for a private recycler who takes plastic film which is used to build plastic decking.