The New Recycling Story
A Program to Create New Jobs, Training Experiences,
Business Opportunities and Fund Raising Sources
From Resources We Now Throw Away
On the news tonight was a story that said the citizens of Yourtown were petitioning their city to establish a charge of $35/mo to pick up their garbage. The story said “What used to be garbage must soon be separated, collected, reused and recycled. The citizens believe we can no longer afford the cost of collecting and disposing of these materials in landfills at a time when money for police protection and our children’s schools is so tight.
Each commercial and industrial consumer, as well as, the homeowner must be provided with systems that eliminate the hassles typically associated with recycling.” The story went on to describe a number of options being implemented by The Chimorel Collectors, which could reduce/eliminate this fee and gave a “Hotline” number to call. As you jotted the number down the broadcaster said something about Neighborhood Recycling Coordinators being trained in certain areas.
The ideas, concepts and “story” that follow describe a developing project that can someday solve waste management problems across our country. It will create thousands of jobs and training experiences. It has the potential to develop business, charitable and civic opportunities valued in excess of $20 billion in Ohio and $200 billion nationwide. The ideas contained herein are in the process of reality testing. You are invited to help this reality testing process with upbeat constructive suggestions. Some of our ideas may not survive this testing of reality and we welcome your positive input.
The new recycling story begins with separation in your home and your business. It moves on to a unique pickup system, then to efficient separation and processing plants and finally to super recycling stores. The pickup system allows for commingled recycling, but rewards those willing to separate recyclables. When you finish this story, I hope you agree with the motto: “The only garbage was in the mind.”
The Story Begins With You
Separation of waste materials for recycling used to be a real pain. Some people were not eager to cooperate even though the news media were full of stories about the costs and hazards of landfills and the need to recycle. Collection and separation of waste materials can become much less difficult in the near future. But, it will still require enough discipline to keep materials separated. Of course, you could always pay The Collectors to sort it for you.
The Story Begins In Your Home ...
You are now in the kitchen where much of your household waste originates. You have just finished a gallon of milk. Because you don’t like the odor of stale milk, you rinse out the plastic container. Perhaps you flatten the container a little before you open the drawer beside the sink and drop it in. When you close the drawer the container is compacted, then drops into the basket below (toward the back of the drawer).
Later you dispose of some aluminum cans, which are compacted and drop to the back of the drawer. When you finish that glass bottle you open the sliding waste-basket drawer below the compactor and deposit the bottle in the basket at the back of the drawer. You finish with the liquid soap container, you rinse it and drop it in the compacting drawer. You drop garbage into the front basket. When the recycle basket is full, you take it out to the garage and sort your materials into the bins along the wall. Perhaps you even buy a shredder which shreds the plastic, but that was a little expensive for most of us. When the clear plastic bag in a bin is full, you tie the bag and drop into “the cart.” You liked to keep your materials sorted to avoid any separation charge. At a cost of $15/mo you paid for your bin system in less than eight months by keeping things separate. and avoiding the $35/mo pickup fee.
Mail has always been a pain. There’s so much junk mail. You carry in today’s mail and sit down on the couch. As you click on the TV, you slide open a drawer in the coffee table in front of you. You pull out the bills and letters you want to read, then drop the junk mail in the drawer. When you finish your magazine, you pull out the middle drawer and drop the magazine in. After you go through the coupons and other glossy fliers, you drop these in with the magazines. When you’re done with the newspaper, you drop it into the third drawer. You never had to leave the couch and the living room is still neat and tidy. When the bag in a drawer is full, you tie it up and take it out to “the cart” Because magazines, newspapers and junk mail can be heavy, these trays are designed to be pulled along on wheels to make your trips to “the cart” easy.
These separation systems really didn’t seem any more difficult than carrying out the garbage. When you did it right you saved on disposal costs and you could get useful appliances and furniture. A tight lid on the food container and regular pickups, seem to eliminate odors. Nevertheless, The Collectors sold a nontoxic aromatic pump spray, a vermicomposting system, even a freezer if you were interested. You could easily choose to sort and dispose of 10, 20 or more different materials. Everything you recycle reduced the cost of disposing of your trash. Recycling was free.
It used to be pretty hard to get excited about this recycling stuff. Then you learned how to get a food grinder, a garage storage unit, some furniture, a shredder, appliances, vermicomposting, even remodeling as part of your trash collection. Yes, it was beginning to make more sense. As the price of materials became more valuable, there was the possibility of earning a few dollars. You could get some pocket money by taking your materials to a buy back center instead of having them picked up. You could help a neighbor pay for his/her/their child’s college education by allowing them to pick up your materials on a regular basis. You could almost get excited that somebody was finally doing something about our nation’s wasted resources.
... and In Your Business.
The cubes of old monitors, printers, keyboards and PCs were empty. You asked what happened and learned that last month the person who buys and maintains your computers asked Chimorel to set up an Asset Management Program. Some of the equipment might actually generate a little revenue for your company if you choose not to donate it. The equipment would find homes at schools, missionary programs and with small businesses and individuals. Trainees in a Chimorel program would upgrade and repair the equipment, develop employable skills and earn a computer if they completed their training. And all it took was one phone call.
In your email on Monday was a message inviting you to participate in the recycling program your company was initiating. At lunch you picked up a box to collect cans and white paper. You noticed containers for white paper near the copy machines and printers. In the lunch room and at several other convenient spots there were containers for aluminum cans. You put your white paper and cans in your box and periodically emptied them in the containers. On Wednesday you agreed to help empty the containers in 96 gallon carts at the loading dock. Every two weeks Chimorel picked up the full carts and left empty ones. Every full cart added $10-$30 to Chimorel programs, as well as, providing jobs to pick up and process the materials. Whenever there were surplus supplies, equipment or furniture, Chimorel found homes for them. Your company’s disposal costs went down and it also received a tax deductible donation. You remembered that it cost around $200 to empty one dumptster. At 3-6 unbroken boxes per empty dumpster that turned into some significant savings.
Once each quarter your email had a brief message about some of the Active Recycling and Asset Disposal success stories. There was no pressure to recycle and not everybody participated. Several of the enthusiastic recyclers considered imposing a $1 fine on the recalcitrant. Instead Chimorel took over the housekeeping tasks and the cleaning people separated the cans and white paper. The whole system was pretty simple actually.
Individual Collection Systems
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Your cousin met with the Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator. She wasn’t too excited about all these gadgets. She thought they were too expensive. She did decide to offset her $35/mo collection fee by collecting her materials using the 4>1 system, then letting her neighborhood collector sort them for her. This kept her separation cost to $15/mo. She sorted paper, cans & glass, plastic & everything else. Sometimes it was paper, recycle & everything. When a container was full she tied up the clear bag and dropped it into her 96 gallon Toter cart. Someday she might realize that with several plastic wastebaskets she could keep everything separate and save the sorting fee.
She could have gotten a new set of cabinets with a sliding four wastebasket drawer and compactor built-in right beside a new kitchen sink. She could have received one of several food waste systems. She might have decided on a kitchen work table that matched her other kitchen cabinets. She could have chosen a laundry sorting table, a garage workbench or any of a number of other designs. She could have gotten furniture for her living room or bedrooms. It is true that these things cost extra, but if you sorted your materials The Collectors credited you with the monthly fee so the collection systems almost seemed free. Once your system was paid for you only paid for the materials you didn’t separate.
Then there was the couple down the street with two babies. They could choose from several special changing tables that made changing the baby much easier. The couple chose to rinse out their diapers in the commode with a spray that attached to the toilet intake valve. They could also have paid an extra fee and disposed of the diapers with a double bagging system that left the clean up work to someone at the collection center.
The simplest system was to separate your materials into your own containers until you filled up a clear plastic bag. Then you dropped the bag into “the cart”. When your cart was full you called your neighborhood collector who dropped off a replacement cart and took your current cart to his/her house to sort all materials into bags that would be picked up in bulk or delivered to a Drop Off Center. Your materials were removed without cost and the neighborhood collector earned enough to pay for college or some other goal by collecting from 20 to 50 houses each month.
Although using your own containers was easy and cheap, it didn’t give you some where to store the materials. We show a relatively inexpensive system that meets this purpose to the right.
A small business could fill bags and drop them into the appropriate cart. Businesses that generated a lot of cardboard already install compactors. Chimorel would pick up their compacted bales for a reduced cost. A construction company could recycle wood, wire, sheet metal, etc. When a business installed new networks or phone systems, Chimorel would pickup the old wire. When there was a cleanup project – cleaning out file cabinets, reclaiming storage space, etc. – Chimorel would manage the project and recycle the materials, supplies and equipment.
Recycling all those materials and finding homes for all that equipment used to seem very complicated. There were different kinds of paper and plastic. Glass was sorted into three colors. There were steel cans, bi-metal cans and aluminum cans. There were all those things people said couldn’t be recycled. Then there were hazardous materials, construction debris, old appliances and cars. There was all that out of date software and equipment. Getting rid of your old refrigerator, car or computer only took a phone call and you could deduct the donation from your taxes. With a little self-discipline on your part, the Collectors really made recycling much easier. There was a way to deal with everything. Of course, The Collectors suggested you should try to reduce waste by paying attention to the things you bought, but if it was too much hassle, there was a system to take care of everything, even the block and old lumber when you tore down that dilapidated garage. And The Collectors would help you tear the garage down and take the materials away for a reasonable fee.
There was, of course, the option of taking materials to a “Collection (Drop Off) Center” where the price for clean, separated materials might earn $7 to $45 each month. Your Neighborhood Collector could earn $100-500+/mo part-time for solving recycling problems for his/her neighbors. Your Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator could earn $15,000 to $70,000/yr by coordinating the collection from 200 to 5000 homes and businesses, as well as, marketing The Collector services and setting up fund raising events. Each year the materials seemed to be worth a little more. Charities had a consistent source of used items for auctions, rummage sales and thrift stores, as well as a stable fund raising source from the actual materials. There were special programs that put people to work collecting things on their own or for charity. And working together helped establish a feeling of community.
Additional Services & Features
When you and your neighbors were contacted by the Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator, there were a number of choices they could make. If a choice would take a while before it could be installed, the 4>1 System or the Simple System worked quite well. These systems were available to people in areas where the complete collection program had not yet been contracted, if they brought their materials to a “Collection Center.”
Oh yes, did we tell you about some of the special services? There were services like landscape design, lawn mowing, shrub trimming, lawn care and snow removal. The Collectors took away your clippings to be composted and brought back rich soil for your flowers, trees and garden. They would rake your leaves in the fall. They would even plow your drive when it snowed. They would tear down old buildings for you and dispose of the construction debris. They would clean your house each week / month / on special occasions. They would help you clean out your attic, basement or garage. Of course, these things cost extra, but they were reasonable and the fee was offset when there was a recyclable material or something that could be sold on eBay involved. When you coordinated a service with ten or more neighbors through your Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator there was a special discount. And if your credit was good you could charge it to your collection card. And did we tell you about the Recycling Store. No, well we will a little later.
By choosing one of the complete systems, a homeowner might receive a new sink, a heavy duty garbage disposal, a compactor, furniture with special compartments to store various materials, and other features that made this recycling process much more convenient. The approximate cost of a recycling system might range from $150 to over $3500. Each month your $35-150 payment included the cost of material collection. If you sorted your materials all of the fee was applied to your collection system and eventually there was no charge for removing your materials. If you only partially sorted your materials, then your Neighborhood Collector earned $15/mo for completing the separation for you. Or you could pay $35 per regular pickup. If you sorted most of your materials, you might only need a regular pick up once every month or two.
An attractive option might be an entirely new kitchen or home addition, including new appliances, cabinets, siding, etc. at costs very close to wholesale if done when the program was initiated in your area or during periodic special marketing events. Many collected materials were eventually transformed into construction materials to remodel existing homes and build new homes. When done on a large scale, recycling markets were developed at a significant cost advantage to the consumer.
The Cost of Collection
The numbers shown below will change over time. The trend is likely to get worse rather than better.
We will not update these number frequently.
In today’s paper there was a story about Ohio Resource Recycling Inc. It said, “Those families that cooperated with The Collector program were able to use the $35/mo fee to acquire a collection system.” The article went on to explain how it worked, “Many of the recycled materials are worth 7.5 cents/# or $150/ton. When the homeowner or business person sorted these materials and provided them to a neighborhood collector, ORRI’s collection system could pick up and process these materials for $125/ton at a profit. A typical family of four might generate 1-5 tons of materials each year. From each family the neighborhood collector could earn perhaps $125/year. If your son or daughter collected from 20-50 neighbors he/she could easily earn $1500-3000 each year toward college.”
Your jaw tightened as you read, “When materials were not sorted properly, the cost to pickup and landfill garbage could be $120/ton or more today and was expected to rise to over $160/ton in the future as permitting and collection costs continued to rise. The cost of processing unsorted materials for recycling could be $230/ton or more, in addition to the cost of collection. A typical family of four generating five tons or more each year might eventually have to pay more than $600/year in taxes or a trash collection fee to landfill its garbage or more than $1000/yr for unsorted recycling. This is the reason why many communities could be forced to implement a fee of $35/mo or more for garbage collection. If this fee is combined with approximately $120/ton from the recyclable materials which can be pulled out from a ‘dirty MRF’ the process may break-even, but some garbage will still have to be land filled.”
When you finished reading, the story stuck in your mind. There really was a reason to sort your materials rather than throwing out the garbage. Maybe it wasn’t worth $600/yr to keep the landfill operators in business. Maybe we really could create thousands of jobs from resources we now throw away. Maybe …
The Collector Cometh
It is Monday night. Monday night used to be take-out-the-trash night. You’re tired. Even though your cart is full, you go to bed. It’s nice not to have to take your “materials” to the curb anymore. In your cart is a black bag with unsorted materials and seven clear bags of sorted materials. You pay $15/mo now that your system is paid for.
Sometime Tuesday the Neighborhood Collector comes by and empties your cart. She will pick up from about 50 houses each month, typically 15-25 each week, taking her approximately 50-60 hours each month. Not every homeowner needs a pick up every week. The $15/mo covers two pick ups per month. Each additional pick up is $10, whether it is for recyclables or trash.
Some homeowners have more than one cart to avoid more than two pick ups per month. Many homeowners still take their carts down to the curb as a convenience to the Collector, but not all do. The Collector has the option of charging when she provides extra services. If her charges are unreasonable the homeowner can stop the service and go with the $35/mo fee.
Over at the Neighborhood Collection Point your collector sorts the clear bags into large bins then takes the black unsorted bag home. Five of the bins are full so she calls for a Wednesday Stinger pickup. Wednesday morning a Stinger truck picks up sorted materials for 200 houses by exchanging full bins with empty ones at one stop in a few minutes.
This month your collector will earn $750 for picking up and sorting your materials and $450 from the value of the materials. We waive the $35 for regular trash pick up to haul away the trash remaining from the un-sortable materials for our Collectors. Not bad for 50 to 60 hours work each month. Isn’t that between $20-24/hr.
It’s still Monday night, but $15/mo is too much, so you hook up the cart to a device you attach to the back bumper of your car and take it to a Collection Center. Your sorted materials bring you $4.28. Not much, but on a monthly basis you saved the $35 collection fee and you only spent $10 every other month to have your trash hauled away. Maybe you’ll sign up for the neighborhood collection service next year.
Shown above are a variety of methods a Collector might use to pick up materials. These include a truck or a truck/car and trailer combination. Because many homeowners may not want to take their materials down to the curb a stake body truck or truck with a cap will be the most efficient method, allowing driving up the drive for pick up. However an energetic teenager will be able to pick up more materials with a truck and trailer combination. Note that a camper truck has been used to pick up recyclables and with a little ingenuity could work very well.
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On the news tonight there was another story about how The Collectors worked. This story helped bring the bigger picture into focus. It suggested that implementing the system throughout Ohio might take 10-20 years and longer nationwide. The Collectors realized that not everybody would adopt their system, but it seemed to be working very well in those areas that did adopt the system.
The Stinger Collection
The Stinger truck is designed to handle 6-10 large bins. Each bin can handle up to 20 carts. Collections sites with 4-7 bins will be located in parking lots, at gas stations, at churches, at schools, at fire stations, at recreation centers and at other locations that are relatively convenient for one or more Neighborhood Collectors. Sometimes a Neighborhood Collector may keep 6 or more carts or large containers at his/her house and the Stinger will pickup directly from the Neighborhood Collector’s house. When more than one collector uses a site, a label is attached to each bag to identify the materials each collector handles. The bar-code on this label is read by a scanner back at the Collection Center and the collector is credited for his/her materials.
At the Collection Center the large bins are emptied, the bar-codes are scanned, the bags are weighed and the contents are visually checked. When materials are not cleanly sorted a video camera records this fact and a deduction is made in the value of materials credited to a collector. Clean materials can be immediately baled, dramatically reducing the costs associated with sorting materials at a typical material recovery center. Some materials are worth only $15/ton. Other materials are worth more than $1500/ton. On average we anticipate developing the value of materials to approximately $150/ton.
The design of the Stinger enables transport of old appliances, construction debris, etc. when a homeowner calls a pickup request into our office. Only one driver is needed. Revised designs (which will be periodically registered in the patent office) will continue to reduce equipment, labor and transportation costs
The Collection Card
The broadcaster explained that tele-marketers would begin offering The Chimorel Collection Card this week. She said, “The one time $175 fee is actually a donation to Chimorel Services Inc., an Ohio 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. Right now you can use the card to buy things from members of The Chimorel Group. Eventually you will be able to use the card like any other Visa or Master Card with some unique differences.
With your collection card you receive one 96 gallon cart for no extra charge and a number of other benefits. You can charge additional carts, other recycling equipment, home remodeling (up to your credit limit), even financial planning directly to your card. When you take materials to a Collection Center, the value of your materials will be credited to your card or to the cooperating charity you specify. Your card identifies the materials delivered to a Collection Center 24 hours per day seven days per week. No attendant need be present when you deliver your materials.
If you are a very active re-cycler, the debit balance on your card will pay interest or you can use the amounts credited to pay off other purchases you make with your card. By taking on fund raising projects and other special activities, you can earn substantial credits to your card.”
The Neighboorhood Recycling Coordinator
She continued, “When you ask for a cart, you will be put in touch with your Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator, who will explain The Collector program to you. You can (1) take your materials to a Collection Center or (2) ask to have the materials picked up at your home if there are at least ten other families in your neighborhood that adopt The Collector program. When you take your materials to a Collection Center, the value of your materials will be credited to your Collection Card or donated to the cooperating charity of your choice. When your materials are picked up by a Neighborhood Collector the value of your materials is credited to the collector.”
She explained, “If you want, you can apply for volunteer training to become a Neighborhood Collector and could eventually become a Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator or a Resource Developer. A typical Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator will coordinate between 200 and 5000 families and businesses. If there already is a Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator in your area, you might train to assist him/her and, if you do your job well enough, you can eventually work out of a Collection Center or develop another area. Approximately 200 Neighborhood Recycling Coordinators will be trained in Columbus, Ohio.”
Collection Centers
Then she began to discuss Collection Centers, “In each large Ohio metropolitan area Collection Centers will be sited within 15-20 minutes of the majority of the homes and businesses. Part of the intention is to develop a brisk drop-off business. But in order to maximize collection efficiency at your home, an effort has been made to locate each center within 15 miles of most collection points.
In the greater Columbus/Franklin County area at least seven ‘Collection Centers’ will be developed. Each center will process at least 50,000 tons/month from a mixed but separated waste stream. In addition, one or two “dirty MRFs” in the Columbus area may be developed to handle the materials from those who do not adopt The Collector recycling program. Whenever feasible The Collectors intend to develop cooperative relationships with existing recycling centers and waste haulers. The Collectors want to avoid the wasteful duplication of expensive processing and collection equipment, as well as, the waste of materials.
She added, “In addition to receiving and processing materials, each ‘Collection Center’ will test and market a variety of products and services and will train coordinators. Some centers may house “Recycling Stores” and sell video tapes, books, appliances, and vermicomposting systems. Services like home renovation, landscaping, house cleaning and more will be offered. The intent is to generate a volume of traffic and broaden the base of support for recycling. Centers may also offer computerized financial planning and provide educational opportunities designed to enhance recycling, introduce other Chimorel programs and strengthen the financial base for each center.”
Farm & Recycling Stores
Her voice picked up. She was excited. “Do you know what happens to the food waste and some of the paper and other organic materials you dispose of? It goes to vermicomposting farms. Yes, it’s ground up and fed to worms. The worms eat your garbage and turn it into clean, rich dirt. Then this dirt is used to grow healthy organic food that is sold in Chimorel Recycling Stores and farm markets.”
“Do you know what happens to the wood from that old garage The Collectors tore down for you? The nails are removed and much of it is sold at a Recycling Store. It is dry seasoned wood, typically straighter and stronger than “new” wood. And the wood that isn’t good is ground up and fed to worms or mulched.”
“Do you know what happens to all that plastic The Collectors pick up from you? It is transformed into useful items and sold at Recycling Stores and elsewhere. Recycling Stores sell fireplace logs made from ground up newspapers, toilet paper and paper towels made from recycled paper. They will sell vegetables and fruit grown in rich, organic compost. And a lot of other things that are good for you and for our environment.”
Trailer Staging Area
Then her tone changed, “Locating a ‘Collection Center’ within a 15 mile radius everywhere in Ohio and across the country is not feasible. Each center can cost up to $20 million. To cover Ohio’s 40,953 square miles 410 centers would be required. To maintain efficiency without incurring excessive cost, ORRI has developed the idea of Trailer Staging Areas. This concept incorporates several unique features, including equipment mobility, circular routing, special trailer design, pick up frequency and computer verification. These concepts make Trailer Staging Areas a practical alternative to ‘Collection Centers’.” Apparently she didn’t have time to explain these concepts, but you can learn more about them by staying involved. More about how to stay involved at the end of this module.
“In major population areas Collection Sites will be developed in parking lots, at gas stations, at churches, at schools, at fire stations, at recreation centers and at other locations that are relatively convenient for one or more Neighborhood Collectors. The organizations which sponsor these collection sites will receive free material removal and/or a portion of the revenue stream from the materials collected. For some nonprofit organizations, this could actually become a significant source of funds for their programs when the people who use the sites designate the nonprofit group as the beneficiary of donated cars, appliances, etc.” You thought you had heard much of this before, but hearing it again seemed to bring it into better focus.
Asset Management Program
“Businesses generate substantial volumes of waste. Some businesses have been known to risk a $5000 EPA fine by throwing away computers. They incur substantial disposal costs by throwing away equipment, cardboard, white paper, software, and many other assets that can have useful second lives. Chimorel has developed a program to manage the disposal of business assets. This program includes recycling, office cleaning, trash removal, periodic asset inventories, asset tracking software, sales of computer related hardware and software, off-site software and backup storage, and many other elements which make tracking and disposing of assets simple, cost effective and environmentally friendly.
“Part of this program helps provide computers and other assets to schools, churches and other nonprofit groups. Chimorel has sent computers to a school in Brazil and another in Africa. They are exploring options for providing computers to a missionary group in the Philippines. They have provided computers to local nonprofit training programs. They also sell used computers to individuals and businesses. Refurbishing these computers provides training for individuals interested in gaining computer skills.” This part of The New Recycling Story is happening right now. You are invited to participate.
Industrial Parks
You are the customer. Below we will sell The New Recycling Story to you from two points of view.
The first point of view assumes that Yourtown has already established a monthly fee to collect your trash and introduces you to Chimorel’s recycling program by showing you how you can use the collection fee to get things you want.
The second point of view describes a variety of promotional activities that will happen whether or not the City establishes a collection fee.
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Use the Fee to Get What You Want
So after work one night Jim calls inviting you and several neighbors to discuss your garbage bill and a way to help preserve our nation’s resources. On Thursday you and several neighbors learn that Jim has been trained as a Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator. You remembered a lot of publicity about this program over the last several month’s and you were curious. The telemarketer who had called several month’s ago had offered you a credit card, but you didn’t need one so you hung up. This time it was a call from Jim, your neighbor down the street and he was he was excited.
At your meeting Thursday a brief video highlights the incredible waste of resources and costs associated with the waste of these resources. You have an opportunity to participate in a brief focus group designed to explore your feelings about and willingness to help solve the problem.
The brochure in your hand helps you to understand that a cooperative effort must be made by thousands of Americans. The last page suggests a number of options. You are aware that your municipality is working with The Collectors to address the disposal problem in your community. You learned that the City had decided to charge a $35 fee for four pickups each month and you wanted to get something for the money you spent.
You choose a system that lets you stop carrying your “materials” to the curb. (Materials, yes, that is better than trash.) Your cousin chooses a system that will actually reduce her collection costs if she sorts her materials and keeps them uncontaminated. There were some options regarding new kitchens and home renovation that were kind of exciting, but you weren’t ready to decide about that tonight.
You learned that in Yourtown, as you pay for the collection service, more of your tax dollars can go to provide police protection, education and other government services. You had an opportunity to run the actual costs. You saw how the value of the materials you typically disposed of would reduce the costs of the collection service. When you experimented a little, there was a real value available – as long as your materials were sorted, clean and collected in volume. Future projections suggested your service would be free in six months years and might pay you money shortly after that, but you’d wait and see. You never know about these projections. These people sure seemed to have their act together though and they were very anxious to please.
There was one guy who seemed to want to give these people a hard time, but they were so polite and friendly. They were firm about one thing though, if the guy didn’t want to sort his materials somehow he would pay $35/mo without getting anything of value in return. He finally got one of the more “expensive” systems, which included a significant amount of renovation and several new appliances. He wanted his separation to be as simple as possible and he liked the cost savings of the package deal.
You wrote a check for $175, scheduled your recycling interview with Jim, and took your 96 gallon cart home with you. At the interview, a few days later, Jim came over to your home and delivered your new system. He reviewed the information you had learned at the previous meeting, and spent some time helping you set up simple ways to collect and separate everything you threw away, item by item. Then he asked you to set at least one goal. You decided to establish a retirement plan that would give you $100,000/yr when you were ready to retire. Jim set an appointment with a Chimorel financial planner and reminded you that your fee included Goal Setting, an Action Planning Family Membership and a Collection Card. You asked him about the card.
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A Simple System 5-20+ Materials
Jim indicated your “Collection Card” would arrive in a week or two. Even if you did not use your card to buy a system and took your materials to a Chimorel recycling center, you would earn a debit balance on your card and your debit balance would earn interest each quarter. If your children decided to establish a recycling route with 50 neighbors you could have the debits credited to “their card,” similar to the Upromise program. This amount might mean $4500 or more each year toward their college education. Could this be one of the goals you set and a method to pay for it? If you used your card, your credit balance could be offset by your quarterly debits or you could designate that your debits be donated to your favorite charity. There was no annual service fee for your card. Your credit limit was set according to your ability to pay. The interest rate was based on your credit. If credit had been a problem for you in the past, you could work with a Chimorel financial planner to improve things. Your collection fee and other Chimorel goods and services could be charged to your card.
Several days later you called Jim to order a second cart for $79 as part of your collection system. Your children were pushing you to establish a collection route. A second cart made their recycling efforts more efficient, but you weren’t quite ready to upgrade to the $350 level (5-7 carts) yet. Each week you would put bags of separated plastic, paper, cans/metal and glass into your cart. The second cart would be used for aluminum cans collected from your neighbors. You also decided on a home vermicomposting system to handle your garbage. When one of your carts was full, you called your Neighborhood Collector to pick up materials, other than aluminum cans. You might even get some more carts in the future so your kids could take on all the responsibilities of a Neighborhood Collector for maybe 10-20 neighbors. The real Neighborhood Collector handled about 100 homes, was expanding his route and your kids would simplify his pick ups by making one stop instead of 10-20 stops.
Your system included a rack of 20 bins to store materials along your garage wall, the cart you already had, a coffee table for the living room and a four drawer kitchen cabinet. When a bin was full, you removed the clear plastic bag inside the bin, tied it and put it into one of the carts. You sorted four types of plastic, three types of glass, four types of paper. You put all your metal in one bin, your food waste in another and had four bins for overflow. Periodically you used one of the extra bins for things like batteries, old wires, toys, eyeglasses, shoes and other recyclable or reusable items. You did the same thing when you had hazwaste, clothes or books. When you donated clothes, etc. a receipt was mailed to you from your designated charity. You could donate an old appliance or car with just a phone call. When you had household hazardous waste, you used a clear red tinted bag to help make sure the hazardous content was noted. Depending on the services you signed up for, there might be a nominal extra charge for special pickups and for materials like glass whose value didn’t cover the cost of collection. Of course, there were extra charges when you didn’t sort your materials properly, but generally it was not hard to reduce the $35/mo-pickup fee to zero by doing it right
In about two weeks almost all your neighbors had visited or talked to the Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator. Everyone made some decision, some right over the phone. You decided that you actually would do some remodeling. It really was affordable. The payment plan kept the payments pretty low and the interest actually was reasonable. It felt good to be part of developing recycling markets and adding value to your home without spending too much.
Appointments for installation of the new systems were made. When a delay was necessary a Temporary System was provided. Follow up was efficient and friendly. Within a month storage containers, sinks, compactors, garbage disposals, even new stoves, refrigerators and freezers for your neighbors were in place. Within six weeks your first bill arrived. You were surprised by the credit you got for helping one of your neighbor’s during the installation process. Like I said The Collectors are very anxious to please.
Special Activities That Tell the Story
Thank you for being interested in learning more about Chimorel’s New Recycling Story. It is important to realize that this story is a futuristic concept. Only a few elements are currently in place.
Now let’s start your New Recycling Story over again. We’ll assume this time that the City has not established a collection fee and we’ll go to a number of special activities – potlucks, NRC Neighborhood meetings, Introductory Meetings and Focus Groups. Helping the public understand what recycling is really all about is the objective of these activities. They’re fun, informative and you may want to take advantage of several special ways to stay involved. These activities can be real and your involvement can happen right now. Welcome to the opportunity!
Have you been to an Introductory Meeting or potluck yet? No! Well, right now you’re invited to a potluck! While you’re visiting with us you’ll have an opportunity to meet with your Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator. Then you’ll attend an Introductory Meeting where you’ll participate in a Focus Group and take advantage of a special offer.
Potluck
One kind of Introductory Meeting
You had already made a donation to become a Chimorel Starter member. You may not have realized all the possibilities this opened, but the potluck sponsored by your church this Thursday sounded like a good time to find out. You brought your family, prepared a casserole and came. The potluck was a fundraising activity for your church’s missionary program. Part of the $20 you paid at the door would support your church and Chimorel. Part paid for the meat and beverages at the potluck. You brought a casserole, your wife and the kids.
At the door you actually wrote a check for $150. This gave you a free entrance to the Potluck ($20 savings) and conversion to an Action Planning Membership ($250, less the $100 you paid last week). Your Action Planning Membership entitled your family to (1) a quarterly email newsletter; (2) the Chimorel Collection Card; (3) discounts on Chimorel merchandise and services; (4) an invitation to a focus group and/or an NRC meeting; (5) entrance to Chimorel Swap Meets and other events without charge; (6) a special project to fund a goal, (7) other intriguing special opportunities; (8) help to develop an action plan and (9) a CD with a wealth of helpful information.
Your Action Planning membership entitled you to set, clarify, reality test and develop an action plan for one goal. At the door you weren’t quite ready to convert to one of the Active Recycler programs. You could upgrade your membership to a Limited Recycler Program, a Complete Active Recycler Program or an Advanced Recycler program.
There were about fifty families at your church’s potluck. Inside the church were stopping stations that discussed a variety of programs. Some programs explored Chimorel activities and recycling. Some explained the missionary activities of your church. Perhaps a bank, broker, employment agency or other financial affiliate might sponsor booths or promotional activities as part of funding Chimorel and your church’s programs. Maybe there was a wandering minstrel, a mime, a magician, a band or some other entertainment.
You were invited to participate in a focus group, but instead you set an appointment to attend the next NRC meeting next Thursday night. Before dinner there was a brief discussion about why recycling was an excellent way to develop jobs and reduce pollution. During dessert the missionary activities were explained. After eating, you had an opportunity to ask questions and browse the books, software and videos available. You watched one of several short videos about recycling and another about financial planning. Your membership gave you a 10% discount on the book you bought your daughter for an environmental project at school. You signed a petition to put a $35/mo collection fee on the ballot.
Before leaving you wrote a check for another $25 to convert your Action Planning membership to a complete active recycling program. This entitled you to a collection cart and recycling interview, as well as, the goal setting interview and all the benefits of your Action Planning membership. The potluck had been a fun two hours – lots of information, not much pressure, good food and good people. You were interested in the program to sponsor computers for missionaries. You almost wished you had done the focus group, but you’d get your cart when you went to the NRC meeting next week and it was time to get your daughter home to do her homework.
NRC Meeting
A Neighborhood Recycling Committee meeting is another kind of Introductory Meeting
As you walked over to Jim’s house Thursday evening, you were thinking about this recycling stuff. Your daughter had decided that she was going to be the home Recycling Manager. She had been learning about recycling at school. She already knew more about it than you did. You and your spouse thought it was a good way for her to develop a sense of responsibility. Her younger brother would be the assistant manager. You picked up on the Recycling Manager idea at the potluck. Your daughter would get $7 of the approximately $12/mo you expected from your materials. Your son would get $5/mo. If they wanted to increase their allowance, they could develop a route to collect from neighbors and local businesses that didn’t want to bother taking their material to a Collection Center. Maybe the program really would create thousands of jobs, starting right there in your home.
Jim was the Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator for your area. You had known Jim for maybe eight years. Jim was retired and was very excited about the opportunity to turn trash to cash. Jim invited you in. There were about twelve neighbors at the meeting. Alice, Jim’s wife, gave you a brochure and asked you if you wanted a cup of coffee. There was a short brainstorming session about what to do with everything you use to throwaway. The brochure made this part easy. You asked about vermicomposting and more containers. Another neighbor asked about landscaping and the lawn care service. A third neighbor wanted to clean out her attic and donate most of the stuff in it to charity. Someone else wanted to put a small addition on their house.
The atmosphere began to buzz with the exciting possibilities. Then Jim asked everyone to take out their “Collection Card.” He handed everyone a list of suggestions and asked what each person could do to add $250-500 to their card. The neighbor who wanted to clean out her attic suggested holding a rummage sale to raise money for Chimorel’s College Bound Program. She thought she could raise at least $1000. If she did, Chimorel would put $100-500 (depending on her level of involvement) on her Collection Card for sponsoring the sale. Her Recommendation Privilege could specify the committee for the other $500. The man who wanted to add an addition knew two people who wanted to build a new house. If both of them used Chimorel’s Home Builder Program, he could add $400-$1000 to his card. You thought you could get five people involved in Active Recycling at the $350 level. If you did you could add $350 to your card. Almost everyone came up a way to add at least $250. Jim invited each of us to become Resource Developers soon so that we could begin adding money to our cards as we did things for Chimorel.
Then Jim asked everyone to put their cards in their pocket and to look at the back of their brochure. He reminded everyone that their Action Planning memberships entitled them to a 10% discount from the prices indicated. Then he said that the $450/yr lawn care & snow removal package (lawn mowed 7 times, trees and shrubs trimmed once, some plants and trees planted, 2 weed/feed treatments, drive shoveled 3 times) would be reduced $10 for each person who signed up that night. We all decided not to mow our lawns that summer and we began choosing systems to make recycling easier.
You got another cart to make it easier to collect your materials and save trips to the Collection Center. You got the attachment that fit on the back of your car. It could hold two carts. You told the kids that they would get the money for the recycling efforts. The kids decided to put most of what they made toward their college education. All told we spent about $5000 that night and Jim set appointments with three of us to plan about $60,000 in remodeling. You began to think that volunteering a little time to train as a Resource Developer assisting Jim might not be a bad idea. Anyhow, you took one of your carts home with you. You would pick up the other one tomorrow. Before you left, Jim asked you if you would help him organize a fund raising Introductory Meeting at the church. You surprised yourself when you said, YES !!!
Introductory Meeting
That night you called your boss and four coworkers. Jim had given you a script that made it fairly easy. Jim also gave you a list of twenty neighbors. You knew five of them, so you called them first. Then you called the others. All told after you called some other friends, you invited thirty people. Fifteen agreed to come. Ten said they would write checks for $100 or $250. One who couldn’t come agreed to a $350 fee and asked for an application for a $2000 scholarship. When you hung up the phone, you about fell out of your chair. You took people out on line to pay their donations and fees like Jim taught you and included your name with each sign up. You decided that your Special Project would be to pay for the kids college.
Ten of the people you invited actually showed up for the Introductory Meeting, but there were almost 100 total people there. You felt like you knew enough to answer a few questions. Later you told Jim you wanted to volunteer to train as a Resource Developer. Jim said he kind of thought you might and pointed out that your training was on the CD you received for your Action Planning Membership. Then he said you were already doing one of the most important parts – exposing people to the Chimorel opportunity.
As people browsed the books, videos and software, you answered questions. Then you called your spouse and explained you would keep the worms in the garage and bought a vermicomposting system.
Someone asked you about the $5000 down payment program. You took them over to Jim and listened. He explained that one person out of twenty-five who paid a $795 fee and applied for the program would receive a credit for $5000 to $7,000 toward the planning and construction for a new home or remodeling worth at least $100,000. He also explained that by using Chimorel’s construction program and by acting as your own general contractor you could build a $200,000 home for about $160,000 or $100,000 in remodeling for about $80,000. With the credit the home would be about $155,000 and the remodeling would be about $75,000. Jim also explained that the grant is most likely to go to someone who is willing to leverage his/her grant to help other people. Jim got a $795 check and a completed application. He made it clear that the $755 was an application fee, not a donation. He scheduled an appointment with the applicant to start the planning process and gave the applicant Chimorel’s Home Builder package as part of the service provided. The fee also entitled the applicant to approximately $700 in planning services. Then it was time for the focus group.
Focus Group
Another kind of Introductory Meeting.
To say the least you were excited. You asked the discussion leader if you could participate. “Of course,” she responded. There was no selling during the focus group. The objective was to enable people to express their ideas, reveal their feelings and assure each participant that using recycled resources could, indeed provide thousands of jobs, new business opportunities for many entrepreneurs, training experiences for motivated people looking for employment and fund raising opportunities for many nonprofit groups.
There were a lot of real concerns expressed by the participants. Some thought recycling was “expensive.” Others were concerned about food odors, hazwaste, piles of trash, etc. Most of the time the leader turned the concerns into questions and guided the discussion, letting the participants address the issues. Occasionally she gave a succinct statement of fact. At the end of the discussion everyone received the brochure you received at Jim’s house.
Opportunity Following Focus Group
Before being invited to a focus group, each participant had already registered and made at least a $250 contribution. When the focus group was over Jim offered an opportunity to complete the back part of their brochure. By selecting a collection system, agreeing to monthly payments and scheduling a meeting with their Neighborhood Recycling Coordinator focus group participants could order “the cart” with the Active Recycler program for $25. If they upgraded to the $350 level after participating in a focus group they could get six instead of five collection carts. This special pricing is the equivalent of receiving more than $25 or $95 for participating in a focus group. Of course, it also meant that you were making a genuine commitment to become an Active Recycler. You asked Jim why he hadn’t offered this discount to the people at your NRC Meeting and he reminded you that you got a special discount on the mowing/lawn removal service.
You remembered that your $275 fee entitled you to all the benefits of an Active Planning membership, including a Collection Card. Your kids really wanted to earn more than $750/yr each for their college education. For your 10 year old daughter that would be at least $6000 plus interest. For your eight year old son that would be more than $7500 plus interest. You upgraded to the $350 level. There was room behind the garage for six, actually seven carts. It was time to say good night. Tomorrow you would begin to think about the “big picture” that was developing in your mind.
Chimorel initiated this rather large project because of the potential for developing thousands of jobs. There is a lot of work ahead. Many of the things discussed in the “Story” are not yet fully developed. As Chimorel continues the process to raise the funds, to do the research, to develop the first “Collection Centers”, and to build the first plastic reclaim facility, we must develop a broad base of support.
As you stay involved, you can help evaluate what is realistic and help refine the concepts discussed into a viable program that really works. Telling the New Recycling Story is one of our first marketing efforts. As noted previously this process will start with efforts of Resource Developers who ask for donations and application fees, then invite concerned citizens to Introductory Meetings and Potlucks.
Developing and providing a CD to members and Resource Developers can continue the process. As a base of support begins to build we will open small collection warehouses, then large “Collection Centers.” We will work with municipalities, commercial businesses, manufacturers, community groups, existing haulers and recyclers to develop collection routes. When there is a broad base of support, we will begin to implement the many special services previously discussed.
One of the limiting factors with current recycling is the fact that there is still a somewhat limited market for all recyclable materials. Another significant drawback is that firms that want to recycle cannot get consistent sources of quality materials in the volumes required. The market is growing, but not yet fast enough to easily dispose of all the materials potentially available. Before recycling will be commercially viable, these problems must be addressed effectively. This will take time, research, money and involvement by many citizens.
Market Development
In order to expand the market for recyclables, it will be necessary to research and create ideas for a wide variety of alternative markets. Then we must aggressively search out and negotiate with companies that are willing to develop these markets. In some cases contracts may be made with large well established companies. In other circumstances agreements may be needed to expand, acquire or create small innovative companies with growth potential.
In the future members of the Chimorel Group and affiliates will be raising substantial amounts of capital to finance new firms and to expand existing firms. When we are ready to begin hiring brokers to accomplish this phase of the project, Amerivestor Associates Inc may be reactivated as an NASD member firm. In the meantime, relationships with other broker dealer firms and financial planners can be established. Amerivestor will buy up to ten existing firms. Eventually the assets of these firms will be transferred to Ohio Resource Recycling, which is intended to become a publicly traded company. Amerivestor would then concentrate on raising funds as an NASD broker-dealer.
It will also be necessary to train people for a wide variety of jobs and to continue the research already happening. During the initial phases of the research and market development Chimorel Services Inc will actively raise money to support the research and business incubation. Chimorel will make an effort to work with existing research and education facilities whenever possible. When appropriate, Chimorel will develop what needs to be developed.
Right now, Chimorel is looking for motivated Resource Developers who will help make this process happen. Resource Developers start as volunteers. As a Volunteer demonstrates motivation and accomplishment he/she can become an Independent Contractor earning the equivalent of $5-20+/hr part-time, then $14-35,000/yr full-time. The next step for a Resource Developer might be to create a position as a Manager or Coordinator, who can earn $21-50,000+/yr full-time plus bonuses and benefits.
Supporting Yourtown
Today there are thousands of towns, counties and other municipalities in at least forty states across America which have been struggling to reduce their landfill use by EPA’s mandated 25% goal. When our project is fully implemented, we intend to divert up to 85% of everything that would otherwise be disposed of in landfills. An initial source of revenues for this project might come from contracts with many of these municipalities to solve their disposal problems. Solving these disposal problems is expected to take the following formats:
1. Agreement to Undertake a Study: We will study a municipality’s waste problem, evaluate resources and financing alternatives, and make specific recommendations. The contract to perform this study may range from $50,000 to $350,000 depending on the size of the problem, the resources available to fund recommendations and acceptance by the community. Although receiving contracts from communities to undertake studies will be helpful, we will not always wait until a contract is in hand. Most of the time we will identify a community and begin a fund raising campaign to generate the funds necessary to do the needed research. Much of this research may already be done, as many communities have already developed Solid Waste Management Plans. A contract may sometimes be established to supplement an existing Solid Waste Management Plan after a fundraising campaign has been successful in attracting attention to specific problems and we have demonstrated our serious desire to create effective solutions.
In Ohio much of this research has already been done. Ohio’s HB 592 (6/24/88) mandates that each county establish a solid waste management district responsible to develop and implement a comprehensive solid waste management plan. To meet this mandate for Franklin county the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) was formed. SWACO’s jurisdiction includes all incorporated and unincorporated portions of Franklin County.
2. Agreement to Resolve One or More Discrete Problems: This type of agreement will depend on the relationship developed with a municipality and the need to demonstrate effective solutions prior to developing or assuming more complete collection and disposal responsibilities. Such a contract would be tailored to the individual needs of each community. Until those needs are identified, cost estimates are premature. All communities have some waste disposal system and/or recycling practices in place. Some of these systems are very effective and do not need to be replaced. Our focus will be to identify specific areas where significant problems do exist and address those problems. In other communities there may only be a need to assist a successful system to move toward our 85% goal.
3. Contract to Assume Collection: Depending on each situation, we may: (a) License the municipality or existing haulers. (b) Agree to take over existing collection services or develop new services. (c) Bring in a marketing program or initiate a public awareness campaign. (d) Begin construction of collection centers & MRFs, use existing facilities or implement a combination of new and existing facilities. (e) Take other steps to implement the contract. Cost estimates for this format are also premature. Once again, let us emphasize that there is no need to compete with existing systems that already do an effective job. We will always try to work with existing firms and systems, suggesting alternatives where appropriate.
Some communities may be willing, even anxious for us to assume collection, recycling and disposal responsibilities. When this is the case, the cost of the initial study could be reduced by volunteer effort, existing waste management plans, fund raising and a variety of other means. Other communities may initially be less enthusiastic. We will, of course, focus much of our attention where we are most welcome. As our initial fund raising efforts and surveys help us target additional communities with either significant problems or friendly resources, we will initiate development efforts in those communities. As already indicated, it will not be necessary to wait until we are invited. In all our development efforts, we will seek to develop cooperative relationships with the important resources in that community.
As we target a municipality to develop, many things will need to happen. We will want to educate the public, open Collection Centers, research the marketable volume for recycled materials, develop cooperative relationships with existing recyclers and waste haulers, and much more.
Each area will be surveyed to determine how many Collection Centers or Trailer Staging Areas it can support, how many recycling facilities currently exist, what waste removal systems are currently in place, and what the existing public attitude toward recycling appears to be.
Contacts with existing material buyers near the area need to be established. Additional buyers need to be identified and vermicomposting farms developed. We need to determine the proximity to and need for facilities, like the plastic reclaim plants we intend to establish. Agreements regarding volume and price need to be negotiated.
As this research proceeds, an estimate of the marketable volume will be compared with the collectible volume. Where there is significantly more collectible volume than marketable volume, research will determine whether to (1) negotiate expanded volume agreements with existing buyers, (2) develop new firms to handle the additional volume, or (3) develop alternative uses for the potential volume.
Where significantly more volume could be handled, it may be appropriate to open discussions with nearby municipalities. Marketing efforts will initially target churches, nonprofit groups, restaurants, bars, commercial buildings and similar large volume resources. As appropriate residential & commercial routes will be established
Financing Our Growth
A plan to create the financing for our growth has been established. It consists of five equity capital phases in Ohio, matched with debt financing. The first phase consists of $5,000,000 in equity capital matched by approximately $15,000,000 in Industrial Revenue Bonds or debt financing. The equity capital will seek funding from “accredited investors.” Money raised in this phase will be used to establish one or more Recycling Centers/Recycling Stores and to establish initial collection routes.
The second phase consists of $25,000,000 in equity financing matched by approximately $50,000,000 in debt financing and preferred stock. Money raised in this phase will acquire land for the first plastic reclaim facility, continue the development of recycling routes, acquire plastic stock, and build the first plastic reclaim facility.
The third phase consists of $100-250,000,000 in equity financing matched by approximately $100-250,000,000 in debt financing and preferred stock. Money raised in this phase will be used to acquire existing businesses, develop additional recycling centers/recycling stores, and have a major impact on developing recycling routes in several cities in Ohio.
The fourth phase consists of $500,000,000 in equity financing matched by approximately $500,000,000 in debt financing and preferred stock. Money raised in this phase will be used to continue to acquire existing, businesses, develop industrial parks and recycling centers/recycling stores and expand recycling routes in Ohio.
The fifth phase consists of $2,000,000,000 in equity financing. Money raised in this phase will be used to continue to acquire existing businesses, develop new businesses, and continue the development of recycling markets in the ways discussed above.
The equity and debt financing discussed will be supplemented by fund raising and other efforts by Chimorel. For example, people will be encouraged to donate computers, office equipment, furniture, etc which will be sold in the Recycling Stores. Part of the funding for many of the businesses acquired will come from money raised in Chimorel business incubation efforts. Chimorel clients will have the opportunity to work off their fees, Focus and Service Hours (see 735 Plan) at Recycling Centers and Recycling Stores. The New Recycling Story will be told at Introductory Meetings and Potlucks, as well as, by Neighborhood Recycling Coordinators and Resource Developers.
The discussion above focuses primarily on Ohio. Similar efforts are likely to be developed in other states as needs are identified and cooperative relationships established. The funding discussed above does not need to be limited to the form discussed above. We will work cooperatively with many organizations to develop recycling markets and businesses and do not need to “own” all the businesses involved
Corporate America & Franchising
As patent protection is established for specific concepts, we will seek to develop contracts with companies to: (1) Develop and finance specific products already described. (2) Research additional concepts and products as appropriate. (3) Reuse and/or recycle specific materials. (4) Expand the recycling and reuse markets.
The licensing of companies to develop and finance products similar to those already described, as well as, others still to be developed can become a significant source of future revenue. Contracts to collect, clean and return specific materials such as glass bottles may provide additional revenue sources. Agreements with companies to continue the development and expansion of alternative recycling and reuse concepts will help create new markets.
Although we will have high standards for the companies we develop relationships with, we do not need to own everything. In fact, whenever possible we would prefer to develop relationships with existing well run businesses, especially with
Our first acquisition targets will most likely be existing recycling and material processing facilities. Another acquisition target will be service companies like office cleaning, lawn care and landscape design. When acquisitions or cooperative relationships are not feasible, we will develop recycling centers in large warehouses, old strip malls and similar properties; processing plants at industrial parks; and other related activities. As previously indicated, we will also develop a variety of special services.
Several franchise opportunities are anticipated. First, franchises or licenses to collect for residential routes and market the products previously described are anticipated. Neighborhood Recycling Coordinators will be independent contractors following much of the same patterns as a franchise without any up front fees. Existing haulers and recycling programs can license our systems to transform and expand their businesses. A hauler could be supported by Chimorel’s employee training, motivation and compensation programs; fund raising and recycling education; as well as, ORRI’s collection centers and related programs. Existing recycling and scrap operations can also be supported through these programs.
Second, franchises to collect from restaurants, food chains, independent grocers, bars and other commercial establishments are anticipated. In many cases, these franchises will incorporate services to clean buildings and provide trained employees to retailers, restaurants, etc. as part of their collection service. These services will help to ensure the collection of clean, uncontaminated materials from these businesses.
Third, franchises which use food waste to feed earthworms, fish farms and other livestock and which use compost for residential, commercial and other landscaping are anticipated. A significant amount of research is needed to develop all these concepts and make each franchise feasible.
Each industrial park will have a variety of businesses which will use the materials collected to produce their products. Developing these industrial parks will require a significant amount of research and marketing effort. The anticipated efficiencies must be carefully planned and negotiated to maximize the returns to the businesses and investors who get involved.
How To Stay Involved
The New Recycling Story describes a very ambitious project, which is ready to be implemented. Portions of the project have been reality tested and they work. If you have read this far, there is a pretty good chance you really would like to help us create jobs, training experiences, business opportunities and fund raising sources from resources we now throw away. Let’s ask a few questions and make it real:
YES / No Do you recycle Now?
YES / No Will you tell other people about
Chimorel’s Active Recycler Program?
YES / No Would you like to become an Active Recycler now?
YES / No Are you an “accredited investor?”
Do You Recycle Now?
Yes = Wonderful !!! Becoming an Active Recycler will be a natural progression for you. You will learn how to make recycling easier for yourself and your friends. You will have many opportunities to share the New Recycling Story with others. Together, we will make the planet a little safer for our children’s children.
No = Ready to Start ??? There are many reasons to start recycling, now. Re-reading the New Recycling Story can help you think about these reasons. By becoming an Active Recycler, you can make recycling easier than it used to be, help reduce the costs of recycling and have an impact on our environment. Will you get involved and help us tell the Story?
Tell People?
Yes = We appreciate!!! If you are ready to get started now, send us an email telling us about your friends or others you’d like to invite to learn about Active Recycling. Or if you have any questions, please let us know about them. The email address is available at Contact Us.
No = We wonder why not ???
Active Recycler?
Yes = Thank You !!! You are about to take a step to create thousands of jobs and many other opportunities. When you are ready Become an Active Recycler!
No = We certainly hope the time will come when you are ready to become an Active Recycler !!!
Accredited Investor?
Yes = Yes, I am an “Accredited Investor.” The securities which would initially raise funds to develop businesses at the first level for the recycling project discussed in The New Recycling Story will not be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These securities would be sold in reliance upon an exemption from registration and qualification requirements under Section 4 (2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Only “sophisticated” or “accredited” investors would be eligible to invest. Call 614-885-0000
No = No, I am not an “Accredited Investor.” An “Accredited Investor” has sufficient knowledge and experience with investing that he/she is able to evaluate the merits of an investment and must meet certain other financial requirements. Our minimum investment at the first level of funding is likely to be $500,000.
