Recycling Business Idea

With all the current talk about environmentally friendly products and trying to reduce waste products, you may have wondered how to start a recycling business.

Recycling business opportunities are available in several areas for commercial businesses as well as those based at home.

Did you know that corporations are one of the largest groups that cause growth in landfill area?

Many items that are thrown into the trash are electronic components such as computers and computer related media that do not degrade or break down.

Landfills are filled with items that will never decay. It is said that disposable baby diapers will last 500 years before disappearing! These are all recycling business opportunities!

HOW TO START UP

You can approach starting a recycling business on several levels. If you own a large area of land, you could develop a recycling center where people drop off recyclable products sorted by plastic, glass, cardboard, paper, and electronics. You could then have a reprocessing center operation with employees to help, though you would need a lot of capital for trucks and so on.

You can also start smaller by promoting and selling environmentally friendly green products. These are designed and packaged to be eco friendly and/or be biodegradable and easy to recycle. They may also be made from recycled materials. You can do this in a store, on the internet, or through a direct sales effort to businesses or homes.

WHERE TO FIND RECYCLING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Recycling business opportunities are everywhere around town. Local landfills may be interested in using you for public relations purposes, for example, and corporations way want to use you to educate employees on the value of a new recycling program.

It is ideal to rebrand yourself as a Recycling Consultant if possible, as this will bring you lots of work on a regular basis. You could also become a local recycling expert and appear at public events etc.

If working as a consultant, offer services such as monthly pickup and disposal of electronic items, a recycling program set-up service, and a recycling tax-cut advice. In the long-term you can also offer your clients yearly audit services to analyze their recycling programs and determine how to make them more efficient.

Since recycling costs time and money, your job will be to convince clients that additional expenses are overcome by benefits to the company. Some benefits are things money cannot buy such as community goodwill. Use any publicity you generate to benefit your clients as they cooperate in better recycling efforts.

Setting up your business may mean that you need to get some additional education, licenses, or certifications, so be sure to research these in detail. It won’t be long before you’re seizing all the recycling business opportunities you see!