does any one know if it is worth it? How much is paper worth when recycling it now a days? i have tons of it, thought id recycle it instead of just tossing, and try to make a few bucks on the side..

 

i dont think they pay for paper since its not a precious metal....

 

x2.

 

thanks for the heads up!!!

 

There is an old guy that comes by my shop twice a week to pick up pasteboard and paper. He's poor but makes his living that way.
Plus saves me money in garbage fees.

 

while I am not some big greener.. I see no reason to take a little effort to recycle paper even if you get no money for it. Conservation is good.. evironmentalism is bad.

 

I can remember as a child, in primary school, we used to have paper drives as fund raisers. Everybody in the community would save their newspapers for a few months and would bring them to the school on a specified Saturday where we manned a collection site. We even had our dads drive around in their pickups to the homes of elderly people who couldn't get out or were at work to collect their stacks of papers from their porches.

So every three months or so we would collect a few tons of paper and get paid a few hundred dollars for school programs/projects. It was a win-win for everybody and the environment.

A quick Google search yielded this same practice at some schools even today.

Bottom right on this calender.
http://www.allendalechristian.com/08...09calendar.pdf

 

I can tell you, it's VERY miniscule...

I assist in managing the environmental program for a Fortune 10 company at one of their largest manufacturing sites in the world. The world headquarters for one of their largest divisions is on the same site (to put it into perspective, it's about 1000 acres big)... Needless to say, we produce BULK when it comes to recyclables.

We have a pretty healthy paper recycling program in place yet it only yields a TINY amount of 'credit' for our site (and we can probably fill up a 40 yd roll-off box in a period of about 2 months). As has been previously mentioned, I would suggest that you recycle it as it's simply the 'right' thing to do - especially if you have a large bulk.

There's a little better market for cardboard... It's still tough to earn much on that. Heck, even metal recycling is absolutely in the toilet right now

 

It's strage to me. my computer software that runs my business, uses more paper than we used when all the work was done manualy

 

Recycle it regardless of being paid to do it. Its good for the environment and really shouldnt take that much time.

 

You are doing something wrong.
Every time you print something as why and what if you didn't or used some other sort of medium.

Mortgage companies used waste large amounts of paper and now they along with the doctor's offices that know what they are doing are nearly paperless.

I asked for a copy of my medical records recently and they were all on disk.
My doctor uses a pda and a laptop. The only paper I leave with is prescriptions and they could call them in to a pharmacy also.

 

I bought a software designed for the biz., It's cheaper to print it than to give each person a computer. I can't afford everyone to have one, plus so many are still computer illiterates out there.

 

I overstand completely...
I have women who have worked in the business over 30 years and it sucked and was nearly impossible dragging some into the 21st century. They fought me every step of the way and many were computer ignorant even after using them daily over the last 10 years or more.
I used to go in the recycle bin and ask why and who printed what for each piece of paper some days. Then I had to regulate paper distribution.
Eventually no more UPS/Fedx/fax bills and I use as much paper in 6 months as I once did in less than a week.
I had to buy the computers.
Old habits are hard to break.

 

We just used to use note pads, and would just write notes on them. So one piece of paper could have several routes listed at different times. Now an 8.5X 11 may just have one destination on it. That is where my waste comes in.

Edit: I just wanted to add . The computer process keeps so much more acurate records for me, that it is worht the waste. It does get kindof bulky to store for 5 years though.

 

OK, maybe it's a Canadian thing, but we've been recycling paper here, roadside pickup since the late 80's or early 90's, like 1990 at the latest. I don't see anyone collecting for money, cardboard maybe. A few Ohio buddies say they do similar with roadside pickups but it seems like a newer concept. Here, in Ontario, you can actually be fined for not recycling certain things, basically you have to pick apart your garbage. Seriously. On the plus side, these same people are exempted from certain taxes and emmisions for their cars so they can't complain too much.

Hell, they even take used motor oil and certain other fluids, not tranny fluid though- but I tried.