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Recycling business sees lack j
of profits, not lack of materials I
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By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
Paper, glass and aluminum are
pouring into a local recycling
business, but profits are hard to
come by.
Teme Asche calls herself a
"volunteer" at Recycle With Mi
chael, not an employee. She and
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three other volunteers at the local
recycling business have not been
paid as partners since the business
opened last June.
"We're doing this for nothing
so far, but someday we're hoping
it will all pay off," Asche said.
The three "dedicated" volun
teers spend abou t four hours each
day, she said, picking up pre-sorted
glass, newspaper, ledger paper,
aluminum, tin and plastics from
about 400 local curbsides.
The volunteers sort each type
of recyclable, then take the prod
ucts to respective local outlets for
processing.
The outlets, in turn, ship the
materials to plants in other states
that can turn them into usable
products.
"It's a service of convenience,"
Asche said.
Customers don't have to take
glass to one outlet, plastics to
another, and aluminum to yet
another, she said. The company
does it for them.
When the business started, only
12 customers took advantage of
the $5 monthly pick up charge.
The company doestf t advertise,
but word of mouth has caused
business to pick up.
"We didn't want to grow too
fast and not be able to handle it,"
she said.
But now, Asche said, even with
about 400 customers the business
is only "paying for itself." The
company is plagued by many
problems common to the recycling
business.
She said virgin glass costs $40 a
ton to make; recycled glass costs
$50 per ton to process.
And Recycle With Michael has j
to pay an outlet to process paper, I
Asche added.
She said plastic poses another I
problem. In the past, the company 1
took plastics to the Citizens For I
Environmental improvement,but I
the plant recently closed.
Asche said her company still j
picks up plastic from customers,
and stores it in 500-pound bales *
until an outlet that accepts plastics |
is found.
"We don't want to end up throw
ing it in the landfill because we
can't find anything to do with it."
And profits from aluminum
outlets, she said, only cover oper- j
ating costs.
"It's wonderful to recycle and
everybody wa n ts to do i t, bu t righ t
now, there isn't any cost effective
way to do it."
But Asche said she hasn't given
up hope.
"Eventually, we'll hit the size
we need and then there will be
profits."
The company has already gen
erated enough business to some
day be able to "skip the middle
man" and ship the recyclables
themselves to manufacturing
plants. This will cut down on de
Sce RECYCLE on 12
William Laucr/Daily Nebraskan
Frank Birdsall, 7-foot 8-inch stiltman from Oak Park, 111.,
hands out balloon toys to children during Earth Day
celebrations at Pioneers Park Sunday, April 21.