Rumpke Notes

- Raw material and recycling markets are down
- Rumpke has contracts with processors which are required to take a certain amount of material to be recycled
- Every 5 years markets tend to crash
- It costs less to recycle, 90% less to recycle aluminum than to mine and process virgin aluminum
- Newspaper is what “pays the bills” at Rumpke
- All bottles are suppose to be washed
- Glass is an abundant resource, so it’s worth very little
- Paper is the easiest to recycle
- Plastic is also easy to recycle
- Cincinnati has 40% curb side recycling which is above average for a city our size
- Injection molded bottles can not be recycled
- 93% of picked up recycling is in fact recycled, 25% of those rejected were not recyclable in the first place
- 8.5 million dollars to run the recycling trucks a year
- Rumpke recycling makes less than .5% profit a year
- Rumpke lost 10,000 a day running their plant in December 2008
- House Bill 501 or 502 dictates any landfill must have a recycling program
- P&G and Kroger both meet with Rumpke to see how to make their products more recyclable
- Rumpke is getting an optical scanned over the summer and will be accepting plastics 3-7