April 20, 2009

Setbacks and Perseverance

I am currently having trouble legally registering my business in the state of Utah and getting the required tax ID numbers, but I can better define what services we will offer. Unpaper Route will gladly pick up your: 
  • newspapers
  • office paper
  • phone books
  • cereal boxes
  • magazines
  • brown paper bags
  • construction paper
  • cardboard
That's right, folks, cardboard is acceptable. Unfortunately you will need to fold your cardboard down smaller than a pizza box. I can tell you from experience that pizza boxes don't fit in the drop slot in the recycling dumpster. We use dumpsters provided by Green Fiber so we do what they tell us to. 

A couple of nitpicking facts for anyone who cares: Green Fiber does not accept string, but we will pick up parcels tied with string. Why? Because we'd so much rather pick up your recyclables in a tidy, easy-to-carry package so we'll cut the string off for you when we drop of your paper and cardboard.

Green Fiber will use your recyclables to create insulation--just in case you were wondering where it would go.

And yes, I will properly register my business before I take money or begin pick-ups. But seriously, that website was the technological equivalent of using elephant bile. (Using it for what? Doesn't matter. The comparison will hold.)

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