Molson Hart

Very few things are even worth recycling. The big tell for this is which products people will pay you to take, versus which ones you have to pay them to take.

So cardboard, cans, and bottles? Where can I learn more?

As I understand it, the big winners are metals and some varieties of plastics http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph240/micks2/ … Aluminum, copper, iron/steel, lead are cheaper to melt down than mine new ore. Glass recycling is essentially pointless. Paper and wood products degrade when recycled.

Where we are in Texas, we generate tons of scrap cardboard (boxes come in, and then we sell their contents). We were giving it away and no one would take it. You can also burn trash for electricity. I was thinking about some sort of grate at the bottom to let metals fall down?

Yeah, we should definitely burn most things that can burn to make power, over putting them in landfills. The plant my dad worked at burned demo and wood chips. The trucks would dump, then material went on a conveyor, through a series of magnets and metal detectors.