It took him eight minutes in the course of the week to kind, rinse and deliver 4 kilos of cans and bottles to the basement of his building. If the town paid for that work at a typical janitorial wage ($12 per hour), it would pay $792 in home labor costs for each ton of cans and bottles collected. And what in regards to the extra space occupied by that recycling receptacle in the kitchen? It should take up no much less than a square foot, which in New York prices no less than $4 per week to rent. If the town needed to pay for this house, the cost per ton of recyclables could be about $2,000. That determine plus the home labor costs, added to what the town already spends on its collection program, totals greater than $3,000 for a ton of scrap metal, glass and plastic.
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