Two years ago, this grade was trading at $104 per ton. The national average for corrugated containers (PS 11) remained steady over the past month at around $28 per ton, compared with a $70-per-ton average one year ago and $171 per ton in August 2017.
The California Refund Value (CRV) is the amount paid to consumers when they recycle beverage containers at certified recycling centers. The minimum refund value established for each type of eligible beverage container is 5 cents for each container under 24 ounces and 10 cents for each container 24 ounces or greater.
When customers get to the front of the line, their recyclables are weighed. A pound of plastic bottles gets you around $1.20. Aluminum is worth as much as $2 a pound.
HDPE price is hovering around Rs 87.25 per kg ( 85.75 per kg ) and LLDPE prices is at Rs 83.75 per kg ( Rs 82.50 per kg). 2 as against 85.75 per kg a week before. PVC prices are up at RS 67.25 per kg ( Rs 64.75 per kg ).
Sorted residential papers (PS 56) are up $10 to $15 per ton and they are now trading in the $20 to $25 range, averaging $23 per ton. Mixed paper (PS 54) is currently at a national average price of $12 per ton, compared with negative $2 per ton over the past year.
With approximately a half-ounce of aluminum per can, or 32 cans per pound, that makes each one worth about 1.7 cents. Although there are some people making a living collecting cans in the streets, it isn't a good living.
To make $1000 from collecting Cans, you will need 10 times the about you'd need for $100. 10 x 750 = 7500 Cans.
PlastiCycle buys all forms of post-industrial plastic scrap. This includes film, parts, preforms, bottles, purge, nonwoven, pipe, regrind, pellets and resin. We can recycle all polymer types such as PE, PP, PET, ABS, PS, Nylon, PC plus other engineering grade resins.
If during a normal year you dispose of 500,000 lbs. of plastic scrap and the tipping fee is $50 per ton, you have a yearly cost savings of $12,500 in just tipping fees by recycling that plastic. ... If we take a median scrap price of $0.20 per pound, that 500,000 of plastic scrap has now generated a profit of $100,000.
Two years ago, this grade was trading at $104 per ton. The national average for corrugated containers (PS 11) remained steady over the past month at around $28 per ton, compared with a $70-per-ton average one year ago and $171 per ton in August 2017.
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The price is currently 7.81 cents per pound, down from 9.25 cents per pound this time last month. This compares with 15.54 cents per pound one year ago.
1kg = about 25 x one-litre bottles or 50 x 500ml bottles. It takes about 30,000 PET bottles to make one ton of recycled PET, according to Petco.
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