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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Feb 13, 2015 15:37:52 GMT
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Post by DnDPaladin on Feb 13, 2015 20:30:49 GMT
Link is broken, you forgot the : after the http !
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Post by johnp on Feb 14, 2015 15:12:20 GMT
How crazy is that? This is the beginning of the end of pulling cardboard out of bins. And here I thought we were the good guys. Turning crap into crafts, for a better tomorrow. This is serious amount of work for very little money, and I think it is too bad that people are so down on money, that they have to steal cardboard, and then only earning next to nothing. Maybe someone should hire these guys, they seem like they are willing to do hard work, and capable of getting up early in the morning. On the flipside, maybe it's a crafter who's gone borderline, and decided to craft his entire world in tiles;-) I'd love to see that project when finished. After he'd stolen some tons of paint, that is:-)
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Post by onethatwas on Feb 14, 2015 16:04:12 GMT
It is disheartening in general to see that people go through that much trouble for what ends up being very little. If you've got some kind of major ring going I suppose this could be lucrative, but the cost of maintaining the ring seems higher than the potential gain.
You have to pull in several tons of this stuff to make any money. And be able to sell it (why they have a hard time catching these guys is a bit hard to wrap my head around...they can't just sell the recyclable cardboard on the black market. There is really only one place that will buy the cardboard: the recycling companies).
So, yeah...it just seems silly.
But this really shouldn't affect crafters. The police are looking for people hauling truckloads of this stuff. One load of cardboard that these people haul off will last most of us a year or more...
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Post by DnDPaladin on Feb 14, 2015 22:04:05 GMT
errr... guys... you do realise that everyone of us that takes cardboard out of our job without asking first. are exactly thaT ? thieves !
my brother works in junk recycling. and believe me, you'd be surprised to see how much those cardboard cost. its no wonder the cops checks that out. its the same for everything including those who takes out chunks of your electrical cables in your appartment just to sell the copper inside. i know, my brother does that. and hes pretty much living off it. selling junk that is. not steal your copper cables ! 8)
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Post by thedmg on Feb 14, 2015 22:15:41 GMT
First world problems
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Post by voodoo on Feb 16, 2015 7:01:37 GMT
wow.......
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Post by quinntheviking on Feb 18, 2015 18:47:17 GMT
That sums it up pretty well. Plus, only 1 to 200 bucks per ton? I'd need up to six-thousand pounds of cardboard just to pay my rent that way. I never pay for my cardboard. Ever. I know a lot of the local shop owners around here, and employees. They've never had a problem with me going behind the store and raiding their dumpster for what they would've just been throwing away anyway. The key is to ask first. My favorite is Sears. Big, double corrugated pieces of cardboard from their refridgerator boxes? Two of three of those things will last you a looong time.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Feb 18, 2015 20:17:24 GMT
ask DMG, it wont !!! 8) the problem is more apparent when you look into all those no job people that live like that. when the government try to help you and you get free money. the problem becomes more apparent.
say your rent is 600$, the government gives you 600 by some means of financial help. now all thats left to you is to find the money to eat, hence this gets more and more troublesome. the problem is not the people who works for theirlives, its the people liking to live free off the rest of the world. the people wanting to throw away the government and live without working.
its much better to steal cardboard or substances like this when you know the government pays half of your debts already ! at least thats how it is in canada.
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Post by EverFrost on Feb 18, 2015 22:39:02 GMT
I suppose this is talking large scale amounts, whereas strategically obtaining cardboard from stores/workplaces is doing the company a small favour, as they don't have to pay so much for wage removal. Plus here in the UK, most waste removal services are owned by the local councils, and so collection services like Virador get paid a set amount no matter how much rubbish they collect.
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