Mattress Recycling In A Truck Terminal
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Real estate has always said that the most important thing is location, location and location. Taking real estate's priorities and applying them to a sizeable metropolitan area, evaluating purchasing or renting a closed truck terminal for use as a mattress recycling facility may serve the recycler(s) well.
First there is the large metropolitan area which should provide a steady supply of discarded mattresses. Having a steady supply of discarded mattresses makes this a good location for a mattress recycling facility.
Secondly you have the location of the truck terminal itself which is normally going to be close to major highways as trucking depends upon highways for inter-city travel. Mattress recycled components require shipping them to their buyers who may be in other cities. So, by having easy access to highways, the truck terminal satisfies a second location value as well.
The third location benefit that former truck terminals provide is the intra-city transportation of discarded mattresses using main roads of the city. The mattress recycling facility owner trucks or contract trucks can use the major highways associated with the former truck terminal to make it easier to get mattresses to the recycling facility from various pickup points within the city itself.
Size of the former truck terminal may be a problem. If the former truck terminal was a giant 500 door facility, the mattress recycling facility owner may well just want to use one end or one wing of the former truck terminal. If it has less than ten docks, it may be too small. The mattress recycling facility owner will need to evaluate it based upon their activity level. Another ptential shortfall of a former truck terminal is that it may lack an appropriate electrical service to meet the needs of the mattress recycling facility. Then again, it may be perfect. This too has to be evaluated.
Most truck terminal designs have some storage area which can be used for locating mattress tear down stations, baler, steel compactors and the like. The truck terminal office and hopefully locker rooms and restrooms can be used as originally intended to support the mattress recycling operation.
Using a truck terminal allows the mattress recycling facility owner to take full advantage of the versatility of trailers. Beginning with the discarded mattress pickup locations, trailers can be spotted at the pickup points to serve as dry storage for the mattresses until the trailer is full and ready for transport to the mattress recycling facility. By minimizing the number of times mattresses must be moved around and loaded into transportation units - there is a reduction in labor.
Once the full trailer arrives at the mattress recycling facility it can be used as temporary dry storage pending unloading at one of the docks. As truck terminals are designed for forklift operation, the unloading of the mattresses can be via forklift as opposed to manually moving the mattresses. Normally, the floors of truck terminals are designed for ease of forklift movement allowing forklift operators to place mattresses at or near dismantling work stations. As components are separated the forklifts can move individual components to their next processing step. i.e. Moving lose cotton in a bulk container pallet to a baler. From the baler, the forklift can load the baled cotton into the waste cotton trailer or load the baled shoddy into the shoddy felt trailer or load the foam into the foam trailer for transporting that component on to its buyer.
Trailers are designed to move and when they are being used as dry storage they are normally much less expensive than permanent construction of an equal area. The mattress recycling owner will want to consider this potential cost savings when developing mattress pick up locations as well as being ancillary dry storage at the mattress recycling facility in its parking area.
Depending upon the actual location of the truck terminal, it might be grant eligible for many grants - especially if it is within an enterprise zone or a free trade zone.
In a perfect mattress recycling market area - check out an abandoned truck terminal for possibly siting the mattress recycling facility plant. If lady luck shines on the operation there will be just enough full trailers bringing in discarded mattresses to keep the facility operating efficiently and profitably. And, those component filled trailers on the other side will be coming back for more product just a bit slower than the electronic transfer of funds from the component buyer paying for the last load. Or as the little cash register jingle went a few years back - "Ca Ching!!!"
Thank you so very much for talking up mattress recycling!
About the Author
Cecil Taylor is the Inventor of the Spring Compactor Invention. For further information on Mattress Recycling and the Spring Compactor Invention, please visit <A href="http://www.MattressRecycling.biz">www.MattressRecycling.biz </A>.
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