2006-07-03 06:12:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
This is a hard question to answer because you need to identify what "waste" you want to change the value of. There are several ways to look at this issue.
If you are looking to reuse items that are no longer necessary to you, try the following ways:
Freecycle
Nonprofit/Charity
Reuse Center
The amount of value is measured differently depending which option your pursue for disposing of the "waste". In the case of Freecycle, the value is intangible because it is valuable to someone else but you are giving it away for free. In the case of Nonprofit/Charity or Reuse Center, they will assign it a value that will help them run their operation. Either way though, you also have the value of not putting it in the landfill. Not having to build a new one can be very valuable to a community...it's pretty expensive.
From the commodity standpoint the process is a little different. We can take the example of paper coming out of a curbside or drop box recycling program. There are 40 potential grades of paper (which I won't go into...check ISRI for the standards). If you just take what comes in and try to market it, you are selling mixed paper, which in the Southeast is currently selling for between $20-$50/ton. With minimal processing (1 or 2 people) you can pull the cardboard out of your mixed paper and market that separately, bringing in around $75-$80/ton (Southeast Prices). You can further refine your process by pulling out Newspaper which is also going for about $80/ton (southeast prices). And so on. The more work you put into separation of wastes, the higher the value you can sell the "clean" material for. This also holds true in the metals and plastics market.
2006-07-03 13:59:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
With Art. Making Art with garbage.
2006-07-03 06:23:59 · answer #2 · answered by Meme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
using waste exchange web sites as
www.recycle.net
www.wastexchange.co.uk
find a list here:
http://www.wastexchange.co.uk/materiali.phpsc?i=l
2006-07-03 07:21:42 · answer #3 · answered by Envi Ronmental 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Recycling, i suppose. Not to indulge in over expending and maximum use of things we buy.
2006-07-03 06:16:05 · answer #4 · answered by Joy RP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
throw away something valuable
2006-07-03 06:21:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋