Snow blower Recycling.

[Colored Egg Farmer]

Jeez its been a long time since I was here.

Well I'm not sure if this is "recycling" but here it goes.

This year I wanted to get a snowblower. I was looking at new ones "and the big price" and I just couldn't figure out what to do.
Well I managed to snag an older snow blower that was in need of repair. I managed to get everything fixed up and running good.
After that I have gotten a few more and done the same. It feels nice to fix them up and repair them. Not only are the older ones a lot better built than the newer ones but it also keeps from having an all new snow blower built and saves the non recyclable parts from the landfill.

Now to get a tiller to help with the garden.

 

[Wannabefree]

Yep, that's a classic example of recycling! If you're that good at repairing the smaller motors, maybe you could make some extra money doing it

 

[nelson castro]

Very innovative. A perfect way to recycle stuffs and making extra money by doing it.

 

[haserd]

Very informative and helpful. Like your recycling system.

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

Well I have expanded to a lot more outdoor power equipment now and added a few more recycling products. I found out that I have a local scrap yard that buys cardboard and paper. My first load came to around 700 pounds of paper/cardboard/newspaper/magazines. I like the fact that I can recycle the paper now as that would have all gone in the dumpster.

It really makes financial sense as well to recycle this stuff. I do not loose any money as I get enough to cover the gas plus a little extra. Plus I'm actually saving more as it would have cost around 50 bucks to set that amount of material in the dumpster.

Currently I'm working on getting a shredder for the paper so that even more can be recycled.

 

[sumi]

A friend of mine started a business selling paper and cardboard to recycling plants. It's definitely a win-win situation. The stuff gets recycled instead of filling up rubbish dumps and she makes good money from it.

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

Update.
I have recycled over 2840 pounds of paper products. I talked to the recycle company and they take just about anything paper so now I send everything in even the junkmail that gets shredded.

Plus I'm not refurbishing lawnmowers and other small outdoor power equipment.
Even got myself a nice rototiller for the garden for less than 100 bucks.

 

[Britesea]

I haven't found a recycle company for anything except metal so far. One of the downsides of living in a rural area.

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

I haven't found a recycle company for anything except metal so far. One of the downsides of living in a rural area.

I live in a rural area as well. Metal recycling is the easiest to find around here. Paper only one place will take and nothing for plastic that I have found yet.

 

[Denim Deb]

They have places around here for recycling metal. Paper and glass are either collected by towns, or in more rural areas where you have to take your trash to the dump, they have bins for it.