california recycling program

A:I used to live in Casa Grande Arizona and they also have mandatory recycling.

A:So start a business handling cans and glass. Since you can be paid for the cans (being metal, scrap yards pay) you collect every week. Start in your neighborhood and expand as you can. Purchase some inexpensive plastic buckets to hold them for your clients. Haul a wagon around behind your bike (you can make or buy a tow hook for it) with a big wood box on it to hold a lot and go collecting. Have a place to sort and store and crush (very important for cans) unitl you can get enough to take to the metal collector. Call around and see about the glass as well and do the same. See if the collector wants them whole or broken. later you can expand to other neighborhoods and get yourself a good used pickup to haul with. You can also get local places like parks and such with the large blue barrels with holes the right size in the lids to hold the cans and bottles. Even approach local stores etc. If you put in the barrels and take them away and replace, you'll find several will take you up on the offer as it reduces their garbage. call around to the metal yards and see who pays best and same for glass. Get someone with a pickup or van to haul to the depot. Make sure you collect enough to make it worthwhile (usually like 300lbs). Don't waste trips it costs too much. At first you might get someone to volunteer the for the trips but later you'll have to pay as fuel costs. You'll also later have to get some students to help out collecting and if you do it right you can even pay.

A:Good for you for going green. I'm sure California is like New York (where I am) and I'm sure you guys have a California Park's department and sanitation department. look them up online or in your phone book.