Segregating plastic scrap: five bins that raise your rate
A mixed bag of plastic is priced at the rate of its worst component. Five separate bins, and one rule about contamination, usually move the whole lot up a price band.
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Insights & Notes
Practical notes from the scrap desk — how material is priced, where money leaks, and what documentation actually survives an audit.
Eight questions to ask a scrap buyer before the first lifting
Changing scrap vendors is easy; finding out a year later that the paperwork never existed is not. Eight questions that separate a buyer from a truck.
Read articleHazardous waste, e-waste and used oil: what you still own after the truck leaves
For regulated streams, handing material to a collector does not hand over the responsibility. What a generator should insist on, and what to keep on file.
Read articleFour places your scrap money leaks
Most plants do not lose scrap revenue to theft. They lose it to four ordinary, boring gaps that nobody owns — and all four are fixable with paperwork.
Read articleYour scrap is not waste. It is an unbilled receivable.
The accounting treatment of scrap decides how seriously a plant manages it. Move it from 'disposal cost' to 'receivable' and the behaviour changes on its own.
Read articleFour EPR documentation mistakes that fail an audit
EPR filings rarely fail because the obligation was misunderstood. They fail because the quantity trail cannot be reconstructed when someone finally checks.
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