What can i collect to recycle for profit in the dominican republic?
ive been wanting to get on this recycle, going green thing for a long time.. maybe buy old cooking oil, scrap metals, plastic, glass, ect to resell for profit… help please!!
ive been wanting to get on this recycle, going green thing for a long time.. maybe buy old cooking oil, scrap metals, plastic, glass, ect to resell for profit… help please!!
I haven’t been, I’ve only gotten as close as T&T and USVI. But I have some grasp of the economy and certainly of the climate.
Aluminum is probably the only waste product that is worth enough to send off the island. Crushed and packaged, it is probably already consolidated by someone there, I’d guess.
The things worth more than aluminum – brass plumbing fixtures, used copper pipe and wires – are great if you can find a buyer and a source. Dumpster diving at demolition sites comes to mind. I’ve had guys ask to go through scrap at job sites I’ve been on. It often helps, especially in poorer countries, to tip the site workers a few dollars for the privledge.
I’d see the big opportunities as reusing waste locally. Use the treads off old tires as the soles for locally-made sandals – I’ve seen that done in Africa.
The Heinekein Brewery once bottled beer in rectangular bottles so they could be used in the third world as bricks. Local sand plus cement make mortar and the resulting wall is lighter and more insulative than solid stone. And it would be completely termites-proof – that’s very important in the tropics. Others have used round bottles in that way, the ghost-town of Rhyolite in Nevada has such a building. The necks of the bottles overlap in the middle of a thick wall. Each wall face presents the bottoms of the bottles. Ideally you have thousands of the same size to work with.
"Tin cans", actually galvinized steel, can be cut open, flattened and used as free roofing shingles. The 1-gallon and 5-gallon cans used for cooking oil are especially useful. Again hundreds of the same size are most useful in a roofing project.
Used cooking oil can be filtered and used to mix with regular "dino-diesel" to get free fuel. Running 100% vegetable oil is tricky without significant processing, but for 10-20%, you only need to thoroughly remove the water and particulates.