Recycling containers as a business

As you read this, you may feel like your life is being filled with junk and things you don’t use. You worry that you don’t know how we humans produce so much garbage. The good news is that depending on how you look at it, waste can be an input for green businesses. Today you know everything you need to do to start a recycling bin business.

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Today I’m going to talk to you about how to get started with starting a recycling bin business and how technology can do a lot for your business.

Recycling containers, good business

Concerns about the fate of garbage are growing: land, seas and rivers are becoming increasingly polluted, affecting not only the landscape but also our well-being.

Society is also concerned about the accelerated destruction of nature through the extraction of raw materials. For this reason, recycling is a business with great growth potential.

Traditional recycling companies are classified according to:

• General recycling: paper, aluminum (cans), industrial recycling, PET plastic recycling, plastic bags, oils.
• Value-added products based on recycled material: sell recycled building materials, sell to thrift stores or green artists.
• Technology and product design for recycling: One field that can open up for you is the design of more attractive, cheaper and more effective recycling bins. Today we are going to talk more about this type of business.

“Collecting and disposing of 1 tonne of rubbish costs €33 in Spain”

The Data: You can read about the the areas most affected by pollution in Spain.

What about the competition?

Much of what man produces can be recycled, the challenge is to find an easy and profitable way to do it. Sounds pretty difficult, right? Well, some have already cracked the secret and made container recycling a good deal.

For example the recycling company TerraCycle offers an online litter collection system that gives them redeemable points for every box shipped.

What does TerraCycle collect? Printer cartridges and toner, nitrile gloves, writing implements, protective suits and – more recently – cigarette butts.

Each point corresponds to one euro cent that is invested in education for disadvantaged young people, trees are planted or the money is donated to a non-profit organization.

Another innovative competitor is Click Greena company that recycles electronic materials.

also exists tricycleswhich offers recycling points for more than 20 different materials.

We at Emprender-Facil see it differently:

We believe technology has a lot to offer to this type of business.

For example, you can start a business that sells recycling bins through a high value-added service. One possibility is to reduce the delivery time to no more than 48 hours from the customer’s request, and even organize your business for immediate delivery like pizzas.

Orders are currently placed by phone or email. It includes the new trend of online orders and why not use WhatsApp as an effective channel.

“The recycling service must be efficient, organized and fast”

how to start

Before you move a finger, you need to be clear about the types of recycling bins:

To run a recycling bin business, you need to get organized and start collecting the simplest ones: paper and cardboard.

• Talk to your neighbors: they will tell you if you have recycling bins, collection times and even an estimate of the waste produced. If you talk to your neighbors, you can conduct a mini market study. Ask them what they need, what they like, and listen to some suggestions.
• Here comes the tricky part: define what you’re going to recycle and how you’re going to do it.
• Create a simple business plan to organize yourself and a more complex one to attract investors.
• Test your business model, collect ecological waste in your neighborhood.
• Remember to leave business cards for your potential customers.
• Offer a recycling bin service to small businesses in your area.
• Contact companies or artists that use recycled products as raw material.
• It offers complementary services and training on proper recycling.
• Advertise in the press, on the radio and on local websites.

A complementary cleaning service is ideal for this business (especially when dealing with toxic waste) and an ecological recycling system. If you don’t offer it, you should join one of them.

How do I start my business today?

It may take at least 2 years before you know exactly what your company’s comprehensive offering will look like. But you have to start somewhere, like specializing in a type of material or a type of customer service.

Take all these ideas and create your company’s image on the internet and social networks. There you can do content marketing on a blog, post tips, news and your services and get more customers.

The Easy Social Media Plan can help you a lot to make your recycling bins come to fruition.

“The challenge is to discover the ecological and profitable way of recycling”

We have something for you:

Interesting links so you know everything about recycling containers:

An example of recycling containers with a social purpose:

Tapas for life collects the lids of all plastic containers, designates some affiliated companies as collection points. Your goal is not lucrative, because every 10,000 chemotherapy treatments for children with cancer can be paid for. do you like the idea

“When glass is recycled, 44% energy is saved”

“Recycling 2 tons of plastic saves 1 ton of oil”

“Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees”

Oh! Now that was enough information to start your recycling bin business.

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