Local Recycling Collection Service

Basics

• A Service that could be offered by makerspaces / OSEH 's for material input, and income
• Essentially a similar transportation model to the "newspaper delivery kid on bike"
  • Numerous bikes/ Human Powered Vehicles or LSEVs to cover the local area
• Could allow for
  • Metal Recycling / Scrap Metal (mainly aluminium and Steel )
  • Plastic Recycling (Need analysis on average waste divided by material (what percent abs etc)
  • Could also do biomass / paper / waste perhaps for use in paper/wood composites or as fuel for some sort of WTE system (pyrolysis, anerobic digestion, etc)

Analysis

To-Do

• Calculate average waste outflow per USA household
• Calculate percentage of total mass of materials out of the whole flow
• Calculate maximum feasable range + cost of transport labor/fuel (if not human powered)
• Research Bike Trailer Options, Small EV's
• Explore if small shredders/hammermills could be of use for reduction
• Research/Make Policies (please clean the recycling, reduce as well as you can...)
• Research Pricing

Data Trashcan

• EPA Page on SMW composition
• Plastic Composition of MSW Flows

Internal Links

• MSW
• This Section of the "Construction Sets" OSE Wiki Page