Industrial By-product Auction Website
I toured a manufacturing plant once in high school and noticed a giant bin full of 'neato' widgets. These widgets were the aluminum blanks left over from the manufacturing process and when I asked "Where do these go? Do you recycle them or something?", the answer was no and that it was more expensive to do that than to just throw them away.
I've always thought there needed to be a marketplace for industrial by-products like this. Connecting people who are discarding and seeking elemental items like this could be profitable and great for the environment.
Artists have been using refuse items for amazing work for a long time and I think the market could be very interesting for who would end up shopping the site. *Etsy.com
Revenue model would mirror Ebay.
Tags: auction, ebay, environment, manufacturing, waste
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Derrick on -
Check out recyclematch.com They are a startup out of Texas
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Permalink Reply by Phillip Maddox on -
Nice, thanks! This is eerily close to my idea.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Derrick on
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They are new but have been getting a lot of press.
I had a very similar idea as yours thats how I came across them. But it is a huge untapped market. There is room for competition.
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Permalink Reply by Lee G Turley on -
I have a family member who recycles rubber left over from the manufacturing process as well as rubber scrap. They almost went under in the past couple years because some of their major clients went down in the recession. After those clients fell off the books he had a really hard time finding new ones. He really wanted to connect with smaller companies that make innovative, post-consumer products but they can be hard to track down. A site like his would have really helped them.
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Permalink Reply by Calvin Froedge on -
+1. Great idea. This is something that could be built over the weekend.
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