I have heard from a newsagent that one landlord is reportedly to impose an additional charge for handling the recycling of unsold magazines. For years, this landlord has allowed paper waste to be dumped in the recyclind dumpster. Now, in the era of imposing charges for every possible thing, the landlord has said that the newsagent needs to pay a premium fee because of their recycle volume compared to other stores.
This issue is not yet resolved. Hopefully, commonsense will prevail once the landlord understands where control really lies on the volume of materials to be recycled.
Our cost of diposal has increased considerably in our town where there are no skip bins and wheelie bins charges have trebled. I pay $40 a week just for my magazine disposal.These are used privately for land fill. If I paid tip charges on top of this I would be paying about $65.00 All adds to the cost of over supply.
I daresay it does not matter to the landlord why there is so much recycling, only that recycling material apparently costs more to dispose of than regular waste. And in this day and age, that seems quite unreasonable and certainly not conducive to encouraging recycling. Here in metro brisbane, we cannot even get a recycling bin service from the council to our commercial property.
in some countries wastes like papers , cardboards or mags can be sold wrth alot of $$$, even plastic bottles or tin cans can be sold by weight.
Just a quick suggestion, could sending mags back as fulls be cheaper than being charged for recycling?
Mark i know you are looking to bring some pressure on the distributores re the over supply of magazines, maybe an additional path would be to contact Bob Brown and the Greens.
The waste through the newsagent chain ( that we do not control )would be horrendous.
Richard, I did during the election campaign. In fact to all major parties except the Sex party. Bob Brown was the only one to respond – not an ideal response but a response nevertheless.
why leave out lobbying the sex party…? they have less to worry about, most of the adult titles go back as fulls
why not the sex party you should not judge the party .They would probally join our fight because we have something in common they like #$%^&* and we like getting $%#@!^ over by these companys every single month .
Probally should not have said that on here but just could not help myself
Who else used to do ‘paper drives’ with Scouts and/or Guides when they were kids.
Even that long ago somebody paid for recycled newspaper.
Today they are still paying for it, although the average ‘Joe’ is not getting a share.
Until the Trading Post stopped printing, their delivery driver used to collect all of our topped mags (along with other newsagencies) to take in for payment for bulk recycled material. Sadly, he moved on. But someone is paying to accept recycling material, I just don’t know who. Everyone I have spoken to wants to charge me to collect mine.
We get our paper and cardboard picked up for free, along with the plastic shrinkwrap and the straps around the paper.
The service is available for free, you don’t need to pay. Perhaps just ask a neighbouring newsagent what they do.
Not far from our shop there is a Visy depot, I am pretty sure that you can take paper and cardboard there for free and they recycle it.
This might not help people in rural towns, but for newsagents in capital cities this could be an option to save some cash.
We are paid for our topped papers ( except the local which has to be returned in full)and all our topped mags. We take these ourselves to a recycle business close by. Makes one feel a bit better eco-wise. This stuff is becoming more valuable as time goes by. We give away HEAPS of bundles of topped papers to customers for their gardens too, the word must have got around our town.