How To Recycle Waste For Profit
How to recycle waste for profit is what interests me. Oh I know there are virtuous eco-system considerations, and you can also save a lot of money with computer recycling for instance, but it is the money that interests me.
Recycling Kids
No, I’m not proposing putting them in the compost heap - I’m suggesting that they should be shown how to earn some extra pocket money. For instance, they can recycle can and other aluminum scrap.
For slightly older kids you can try recycling containers made of wood, and the palettes that bricks are delivered on to building sites. Remove the nails carefully, and make simple wooden toys that your kids can practice their salesmanship on. Oh, it won’t make them a fortune, but it will teach them things that will be useful all their lives.
Teenagers With Utility Vehicles
If you are interested in computers recycling, pick up computers at the annual roadside rubbish collection. Unplug faulty units, plug in good units removed from other computers, until you have a good working unit. Sell. Repeat.
I don’t recommend that way of making money because it requires salesmanship, and a minimum of computer knowledge, and time to drive round looking for disposed computers, and the ability to park safely while you are collecting your free computers. However it will make some money, and is great if you enjoy working with computers.
Teenagers And Fit Adults:
You make a profit by buying cheap and selling dear. Right?!
How would it be to buy for nothing - as in recycling? You can’t beat that - or can you? If you are fit enough and have a small truck or utility vehicle you can put leaflets in local letter-boxes offering to cart away their old furniture etc. that is just taking up valuable storage space. You charge them $25 and make it clear to them that you will only take good quality stuff.
What have you done? You’ve got your stuff for less than nothing! They are paying you to take it away. What about salesmanship and where to recycle? There are used furniture shops that will buy all the furniture that you take to them without any salesmanship. Scrap buyers will take all your metal scrap. Again, they have to make a profit on the price they pay you.
Oh, if you are a good salesman you could get more than the miserable price that they will give you, but remember you have been paid to cart the stuff away. If you were a good salesman you would be holding down a lucrative job, instead of doing all the hard physical work of loading furniture onto your vehicle.
You can sell smaller and more valuable items on eBay.
Recycling waste is a matter of opinion. Waste is the opinion of the person getting rid of such things as metals scrap. But someone else will probably want to buy it.
Home Recycling
Even better and more lucrative is to buy homes that nobody wants because they are in a messy condition. Don’t buy anything with serious structural damage. If tenants have kicked holes in the plasterboard walls, that’s not serious. Plasterboard panels are easy to replace. Large cracks in brick-work, and termite damage should disqualify the purchase.
Ask real estate agents what you can do to increase the value of your property, and do it, then resell at a handsome profit. Remember when you are doing your accounting to consider the agent’s fees, lawyer’s fees, and stamp duty, together with fuel and vehicle deterioration costs if you cart materials to your building site.
How to recycle waste for enormous profit.
So far I’ve told you about waste recycling ideas that have the following disadvantages
* Salesmanship needed
* Physical fitness needed
* Utility vehicle and drivers licence needed
* Technical skill needed
You can recycle mobile phones for vast sums of money. Even if you are 95 years old you are still fit and strong enough to carry a mobile phone, and no technical skill or salesmanship is needed.
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