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Pastimes : Plastics to Oil - Pyrolysis and Secret Catalysts and Alterna
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To: Steady_on who wrote (25187)5/29/2012 10:14:52 AM
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That means plastics that will have a tipping fee charged to dispose of them unless JBI accepts them.

So unless you have some sort of evidence to the contrary.......Yes, I think JBI gets its plastic for free."

There is the tipping fee, and there is the expense of operating the truck. I don't think it would take very long for the expense of operating the truck to equal the tipping fee. Maybe an hour or so, and if the drive is long then you have to add in the opportunity cost of lost runs.

So the question becomes how much scrap plastic is located in an area close to the facility where it is economically advantageous to dump at JBII rather than go to the landfill?

So yes they may get some plastic free, but I bet the free plastic will not even begin to approach the claimed capacity.
At which point they will have to make it economically advantageous for the haulers to bring them more plastic.
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