Heard of metal salvage yards? Next thing will be plastic salvage yards
Cash_is_king,and_RodSpeed, don't_forget_it
you are an entrepreneur, now is your chance to become a plastics
exporter.
Rod Speed
> Plastics are made from oil. Nobody is scavenging plastics just yet.
Wrong.
> If you are an entrepreneur, now is your chance to become a plastics exporter.
Been going on for a long time now.
Sev
I wonder at what price point for oil will thieves start ripping
plastic plumbing out of houses...
Rod Speed
>> Wrong.
Wont happen, essentially because there is a hell of a lot more plastic a hell of a lot easier to get at.
Sev
> Sev <servde...@aol.com> wrote
yeah- I was actually ah jus kidding. Quite a bit of activity with
the metals, though. NYTimes ran story last week of leaded roofs being
ripped off old churches in UK. I guess at least the old car batteries
will get dragged out of the woods, etc.
Rod Speed
> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
>> Sev <servde...@aol.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> Cash_is_king,and_RodSpeed, don't_forget_it <kwo...@hotmail.com> wrote
>>>>> Plastics are made from oil. Nobody is scavenging plastics just yet.
>>>> Wrong.
>>>>> If you are an entrepreneur, now is your chance to become a plastics exporter.
>>>> Been going on for a long time now.
>>> I wonder at what price point for oil will thieves start ripping plastic plumbing out of houses...
>> Wont happen, essentially because there is a hell of a lot more
>> plastic a hell of a lot easier to get at.
> yeah- I was actually ah jus kidding.
That was obvious.
> Quite a bit of activity with the metals, though.
Not really.
> NYTimes ran story last week of leaded roofs being ripped off old churches in UK.
Fuck all old churches there have had that happen to them.
Because the verger beats the culprits to death with those things they whack on the doors with.
> I guess at least the old car batteries will get dragged out of the woods, etc.
Nope, there isnt enough lead in them to bother.
Cash_is_king,and_RodSpeed, don't_forget_it
All you need is to convince people that something is scarce. Then you
need to create a fake market for it. A ponzi scheme of self-
replicating endurance follows. I am not sure how plastics could be
spun as a scarce resource when we see it litter the highways, but that
would not stop someone who wanted to dupe people used to bubble run-
ups in prices of anything from Beanie Babies to photos of newborn
babies.
Rod Speed
> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
>> Cash_is_king,and_RodSpeed, don't_forget_it <kwo...@hotmail.com> wrote
>>> Plastics are made from oil. Nobody is scavenging plastics just yet.
>> Wrong.
>>> If you are an entrepreneur, now is your chance to become a plastics exporter.
>> Been going on for a long time now.
> All you need is to convince people that something is scarce.
There was no need to bother with plastics, the volume alone made that viable a long time ago.
> Then you need to create a fake market for it.
There was no need to bother with plastics, the volume alone made that viable a long time ago.
> A ponzi scheme of self-replicating endurance follows.
Nope, thats not how the scavenging market works.
> I am not sure how plastics could be spun as a scarce resource
No one said they were. Neither are cans and glass bottles.
> when we see it litter the highways, but that would not stop someone
> who wanted to dupe people used to bubble run-ups in prices of
> anything from Beanie Babies to photos of newborn babies.
Or just realise that there is a market for salvaged plastic, cans, bottles etc.