The volume of your scrap recyclables will determine how best to handle what you generate. Track your scrap volumes every month by weight to prepare to earn and save more money. Compared to a compactor, being able to bale at your location translates to a higher price for your tonnage and lower freight costs and that more than offsets the minutes it takes to tie and stack a bale.

If you collect 20 tons/ month, a baler is the most efficient way to handle your scrap. There are several types and styles. Businesses frequently start with a downstroke baler like the one in this video. Scrap is loaded and compressed until there is 600-800 pounds of OCC in the chamber. Next the bale is tied with wires, ejected, stacked, and stored until a full trailer is ready to be shipped to our facility for processing and shipping to the paper mill.

Compactors are also used to collect specific types of scrap, usually OCC or office paper, production scrap, newspapers, etc. The compactor tube or box is gradually filled with 3-6 tons of scrap that is fed into the compacting mechanism, sometimes with a cart tipper.  Most of the compactor boxes we use will hold 4 tons, maybe more. The compacting machinery uses 31-43 psi as it presses the material deep into the box or tube. In some locations, electronic monitors use text messaging to alert the recycling team when the compactor box is nearly full and will soon need to be swapped out for an empty one. The full compactor is driven to our recycling facility where the contents are baled then shipped to a paper mill to become new paper products.

Watch a compactor with a tipper in this video:

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For destruction, our plant in Salt Lake City is one of our most advanced facilities. We have several equipment options with which to destroy a variety of materials. We have a multi-shred system for labels and documents. We have a self-contained grinding system for larger plastic and metal items. We have a crusher for the even larger items that just need to be rendered useless so they cannot be sold elsewhere. We are also more advanced on our capability to recycle what is left after destruction. The packaging items we destroy are tough to recycle for most companies. We are able to recycle some products and resell the ground materials for the production of new products. Resale of materials means lower destruction costs, often a 50% savings to our customers.

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Everywhere around the country, manufacturers have products where something has gone wrong or someone has made a mistake. Instead of burying them in a landfill at high cost, it is often viable to depackage and shred the product and recycle as much of it as possible. We guarantee destruction and prevent packaging, outdated product, and returns from being reused on the open market.

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