Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: Obtaining paper

Saturday, April 3, 2010

[papercreters] Re: Obtaining paper

In northern Canada the store pays to get rid of it,can take it away for free.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Evonne Heyning <evoamo@...> wrote:
>
> Has anyone here tried phone books, yellow pages? I met with someone at AT&T
> who thought it would be a great idea to build structures out of old phone
> books. They don't know what to do with all of them, it's a recycling
> nightmare that should be able to be reused.
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> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:32 AM, countryatheartok <
> criswells.ok@...> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >
> > The deal is, someone provides those big businesses with a compactor
> > machine, in order to buy the bailed cardboard from them. The buyer sets
> > the time and date he will pick up and pay for the cardboard at the
> > current market price, problem is they usually only pick up and pay for
> > when the current market price is down. That is why you see such large
> > amounts behind businesses, the buyer is waiting for a better price.
> >
> > BTB
> >
> > --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com <papercreters%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > Evelyn Vollmer <evelynanne8@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > This is good news!
> > >
> > > In the past we have talked about the problem of obtaining paper and
> > some on
> > > the list, like Judith, have started to use cardboard. I was just up in
> > the
> > > Sacramento area and in watching the news and a story came up where
> > they
> > > arrested a group of people taking the bailed cardboard from behind the
> > big
> > > box stores. These people had quite a business, big trucks, warehouses,
> > etc.
> > > Apparently there is big money in recycling running into thousands and
> > > thousands of dollars. Just an interesting tidbit.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:41 PM, yeshuaessenor yeshuaessenor@...:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > hi....
> > > >
> > > > just hoping to help with paper finding.
> > > >
> > > > I have worked in a couple of places that have an OBSCENE
> > > > amount of paper that they THROW AWAY DAILY!!!
> > > >
> > > > One is a tourist attraction/museum (go figure)
> > > > and the other is a jail.
> > > >
> > > > TONS AND TONS of paper yearly I AM SURE!
> > > >
> > > > all shreaded and ready to go too!
> > > >
> > > > :)
> > > > hope this helps somebody!
> > > >
> > > > --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com <papercreters%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <papercreters%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > > > "Denise" sharden@ wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi ~ First post here, I've been lurking for a few years and
> > learning
> > > > everything I can. I used to work at a detention center (county jail)
> > and
> > > > they had an enormous amount of shredded paper thrown out every week.
> > You
> > > > might try there or city/county offices. I get mine to experiment
> > with from
> > > > the Dr's office I work at. Hope this helps ~ Peace ~ Denise
> > > > >
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