It has been a great benefit for CARDBOARD demand.
However, it has also increased the amount of cardboard in the trash stream.
At my towns trash transfer station we have TWO dumpsters for Cardboard. We only have one dumpster for every other form of trash/recyclables. Fortunately here in NH we have a place that we can actually SELL the cardboard to that is within reasonable trucking distance. This means that we can basically break even on the trucking cost to dispose of the cardboard.
As opposed to other “recyclables” like Aluminum and Steel that are actual money makers. Aluminum makes us money. We sell it for more than the trucking cost. Steel/tin is the same story. We make a little bit of money selling it.
Mixed clean paper is loses money, but does not cost as much as disposing of mixed trash on a per/ton basis.
Nixed trash get BURNED by Wheelabrator at their incinerator.
Where they make electricity. It costs money to truck it there. Then we pay they X amount per ton to take it.
Construction debris is the most expensive trash to dispose of because it has to go to a particular land fill.
Where we pay the highest per ton basis to dispose of it, plus trucking.
Now THAT is a fact....
Now THAT is a fact....