A large part of what factories pay to dispose of is in fact a raw material for someone else: plastic and metal offcuts, packaging, textile scraps, wood, paper, spent catalysts or by-products of a process. Buyers are recyclers, processors, other manufacturers and traders who specialise in a material.
What a buyer pays depends on how precisely the material is described and how clean it is. A lot described as "HDPE post-industrial scrap, clean, baled, 12 tonnes a month" gets answers; "mixed factory waste" usually does not. Steady volumes and separate streams are worth much more than occasional mixed loads.
How to start:
- list every waste stream on your site with its material, grade, volume and frequency;
- separate the streams that have a market and keep them clean;
- check which documents your country requires, especially for hazardous waste (waste codes, analyses, permits).
On ReWasteHub, post one listing per stream in the matching category, with the volume, packaging, location and photos. Companies that need the material find it and contact you directly; price, contract and transport stay between you and them.