Why Sort the Commodities?
Papersave Pickup Program
Why Participate in Papersave?
Why Sort the Commodities?
Any commodity collected is brought back to Raven Recycling Center and baled into compact bales. These approximately thousand pound bales are then sold and shipped to various pulp mills, and plastic or metal processors. Each category of commodity can be worth a different dollar amount. White office paper for instance is worth the most and is the only category of paper to make money over the costs of collection, processing and shipping. Therefore it is important that the white paper is sorted very carefully to keep the quality high. Since Raven is a non-profit organization the money made from the white paper is used to pay for the recycling costs of the other paper categories. This is the same for plastics, and so we keep number 1 and 2 plastics separate due to their increased value, which helps to fund the shipping of the other plastics (3-7).
