Recycling For Profit

Preface:

Bangladesh is a land of 14 million people and population is growing day by day.

In our daily life we use many kinds of plastics and glass accessories. After using that we
just throw it away without recycling that. As a result, environment around us is polluting
day by day. Plastic and glass items are identified as one of the major contributor to the
environmental waste because of their long life. Plastic and glass degradation is extremely
slow and it has the potential to generate hazardous output. Plastic items are used as
bottles, bags, packing goods etc. it is mainly used by the manufacturer only for its low
cost. And the most usable plastic is used as the container of the cold drinks. In a hot
country like Bangladesh peoples drinks a lot of cold drinks or mineral water. After
drinking they throw away the bottles. But they can be used again. If those bottles or
plastic goods are used then both manufactures and the buyers will be benefited.

Main Idea:

Our main idea is to recycle those plastic and glass goods. We will collect,
wash and rebuild them. And sell them to various companies. Other scraps that are not on
a position to recycle that we will export to the outer countries. The plastic bottles will be
washed and restructured by us and then we will sell it to the oil and cold drinks
companies. And the glass bottles will be washed and sold to the drinks and
pharmatuticals companies.

Objectives:

1. Collect some of the street children or man who does not have any work to do and
give them the opportunity to earn some cash per day by collecting scraps from the
roads or houses.
2. Contact with some of the scrap merchandisers who gets a large quantity of plastic
and glass scraps per day. Convince them to sell some of his scraps to our
company per day.
3. Buy machines that can wash, melt and shape new bottles. This will be power
consuming or which needs less electric supply and give more output.
4. Contact with some buyer who will be willing to buy from us. Such as cold drinks
and Oil Company, scrap dealers etc.
5. Find a place where we can set up all the machineries.
6. Hire some experienced workers who can operate machines, security guard, driver
and some man to do the other chores.
Planning’s and Cost:

• A chine’s company names “Gee fill Machineries” introduced a machine at current

year that can reshape plastic goods, melting and can produce new plastic bottles or goods
with a new shape. It is less power consuming and it gives a better output within a short
time. And the main fact is it is not too expensive. It costs about tk. 4, 00,000. (Without
installation fee.)

Outside near Dhaka city there are many scrap merchandisers who sells a lot of scraps per
day. We have to convince them to sell plastic bottles to us at a large quantity.

• Rent a place near Dhaka Metropolitan where we can setup the machines.

• Buy a pickup truck for transportation. Buy a new one is not necessary.

• There is a company that deals in scrap things. It names “US plastic recovery”. It
collects scrap or waste materials from all over the world. The waste which we can not
convert or sale in Bangladesh, we will export them to Atlanta, Georgia.

• As for Bangladeshi companies, we will give them refined plastic bottles and other
recycled accessories at a cost lower than other companies.

• The technology which we will use is not very well known to Bangladesh, as it is a
new and advanced technology so that it can be expected to make better profit from it.

Future estimated cost:

Machineries 4, 50,000
Office and factory (rent) 1, 00,000
Delivery van (re-conditioned) 50,000
Equipments 50,000
Cash 50,000
Others 70,000
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7, 70,000

Expected Profit:

1. Because of our machineries are diesel and electrical power generated so that it
can produce 3700 (1 liter) bottles per day from the scrap. And that will cost us about
4060 tk per day. That means 1 bottle costs 1.09 tk. On the other hand, other plastic
accessories will cost 4500 tk per day and per good costs 1.80 tk.

A chart is given below which gives a probable profit of our company:

Company name Present Avg. cost per good Our offer Our cost Profit (per good)
Cocacola company 3.15 2.25 1.09 1.16
Meghna oil 5.32 4.00 2.20 1.80
Igloo company 3.25 2.25 1.09 1.16

Our company can supply at least 1500 bottles and at least 1000 other plastic goods per
day.

2. US plastic company offers $5000 for plastic, metal and polyethylene scrap per
ton. If we collect theses scraps costs taka. 150000 or lower per ton then we can have a
profit of 150000 tk. or higher after all costs.

Future Plan:

Almost all the pharmacy and chemical companies introduces new

medicines or products every now and then. And for that they would need new deigned
bottles at a low cost. We will give them the opportunity to chose or deign their bottles or
box.

Conclusion:

Recycling is not so popular in Bangladesh. But in the outer countries, only for
recycling their environment and society is always clean and healthy. Through this
business we can keep our environment clean and healthy and on the other hand we can
make a huge amount of profit from it.