Miller Recycling likes to keep our customers informed about new developments in the recycling industry and make predictions about the future of the scrap metal market, but we know that most business owners are primarily concerned with one thing: today’s price. When you need hard-to-manage waste hauled away, you want to pay as little as...Continue Reading
There are many sources for locating scrap copper. If you are an electrician or plumber, you handle this material every day. But do you know how to obtain the best value for your unused or scrap copper? Following these basic guidelines will ensure you will obtain the best value for your scrap copper. Preparing Scrap...Continue Reading
You know that scrap metal recycling is good for the planet. But what about the economic benefits of recycling scrap metal? In other words, how does scrap metal affect your business’s bottom line? There are two general ways to look at the economic benefits of recycling scrap metal. First, how scrap recycling benefits you/your business...Continue Reading
Nearly everyone touches plastics every day. Plastic film, for example, is used to make the thin bags for bread, produce, dry cleaning, newspapers and takeout food boxes. Cases of water bottles and multi-packs of paper towels are shrink-wrapped with plastic film. The plastic air pillows that are used as cushioning in packages are made from...Continue Reading
Like other types of recycling, scrap metal recycling has significant environmental benefits. Repurposing existing materials reduces the need to create new ones, which in turn reduces the need to mine for metal ore and other virgin materials. Recycling also keeps it out of landfills. And since metal may be recycled over and over without diminishing...Continue Reading
It’s been happening gradually, but the recycling landscape has changed significantly in the last several years. All family-owned recycling companies in Massachusetts would probably tell you the same thing. Increased competition and pressure from larger organizations has made it more and more challenging for small businesses to continue operating. Multiple Massachusetts recycling companies have shut...Continue Reading
If your business generates any scrap copper, you probably noticed that 2021 was a banner year for copper prices. So far, 2022 is following suit. And if your business buys scrap copper, you’ve definitely noticed that copper has been more expensive than ever before. Globally, copper prices reached all-time highs in 2021 and reached a...Continue Reading
Making significant changes almost always takes longer than we’d like. That’s true of a lot of things in life. It’s also something we’re seeing in the recycling industry right now, as billions of single-use paper cups end up in landfills because wide-scale paper cup recycling continues to be just out of reach. It’s frustrating because...Continue Reading
Bottles, cans and plastic wrap. Plastic milk crates. Even an office chair and a toilet seat. They’re all things that Miller Recycling has recently found mixed into incoming loads of recovered cardboard. Cardboard contamination is a global problem, and it’s not new—but developments over the last few years have made cardboard contamination a...Continue Reading
People watching TV in 1990 might remember seeing commercials from DuPont declaring that empty plastic containers weren’t trash—they were “full of potential,” and that potential could only be harnessed by people recycling plastic. That same year, Coca-Cola began making bottles using recycled plastic. By 1992, there were nearly 5,000 curbside recycling programs in the U.S....Continue Reading
