Good Point Recycling of Middlebury Vermont is now preparing our 1st Quarter Report and Annual 2013 Report for the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. Having just had these numbers audited under our R2 Solutions annual surveillance in March, we have more than enough data to demonstrate what kind of a company we are.
The most obvious change over the past 4 years was our decision to bring demanufacturing jobs in house, doing the television and monitor teardown here in Addison County. Our payroll hit $26,000 per week, much of it in time-and-a-half (OT), and we hired more experienced people to do it. So Red "CRT whole unit outsource" went down, and blue "Bare CRT tube glass", and associated plastic, went way up.
Something that surprises people is how little we export, and the reasons it has declined. Good Point never exported more than 30% of the material, I think the peak (28%) was in during the years (2006-8) when we were buying and selling monitors from other companies, for refurbishing in Malaysia and redistribution in Egypt.
Why the decline? Was it stricter EPA enforcement?
Responsible Recyclers standards?
Pressure from Basel Action Network?
Strict Vermont E-Cycles Program standards?
No, none of these explains the fall from 28% export to 6%. It's the marketplace. And there's nothing ghoulish, witches brewy, noxious, or radioactive going on. There's no Batman villian in the "e-waste" trade. When the reuse market finds another source, no one wants to import it any more. It's scrap. Metal and Plastic. Recycling. Boring. Laundrymat scale boring.
The most obvious change over the past 4 years was our decision to bring demanufacturing jobs in house, doing the television and monitor teardown here in Addison County. Our payroll hit $26,000 per week, much of it in time-and-a-half (OT), and we hired more experienced people to do it. So Red "CRT whole unit outsource" went down, and blue "Bare CRT tube glass", and associated plastic, went way up.
Something that surprises people is how little we export, and the reasons it has declined. Good Point never exported more than 30% of the material, I think the peak (28%) was in during the years (2006-8) when we were buying and selling monitors from other companies, for refurbishing in Malaysia and redistribution in Egypt.
Why the decline? Was it stricter EPA enforcement?
Responsible Recyclers standards?
Pressure from Basel Action Network?
Strict Vermont E-Cycles Program standards?
No, none of these explains the fall from 28% export to 6%. It's the marketplace. And there's nothing ghoulish, witches brewy, noxious, or radioactive going on. There's no Batman villian in the "e-waste" trade. When the reuse market finds another source, no one wants to import it any more. It's scrap. Metal and Plastic. Recycling. Boring. Laundrymat scale boring.
