How to make money on waste disposal

What waste can you earn

Not all trash is equally useful for a novice businessman. This is due to changes in legislation in recent years.

Only a regional operator has the right to collect, remove and dispose of solid municipal waste. According to the leading lawyer of the European Legal Service Pavel Kokorev, only Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol have a delay until 2022. Solid municipal waste is the contents of buckets and containers of residents of Russia. This includes food waste, spoiled things - everything that arose in the process of "satisfying personal and domestic needs." If something like this ends up in the trash bin of a company or individual entrepreneur, it is also considered solid municipal waste.

The regional operator - one or more - is selected by the authorities of the entity on a competitive basis for a period of up to 10 years.

In theory, you can start your own company, participate in a competition, win it, and provide yourself with a job for the next few years. In this case, you will receive the right to export, sort, dispose of waste. In practice, it is better to soberly assess your strength. If you are an aspiring businessman with no connections, your chances of winning a competition are few. However, optimists full of enthusiasm can try.

If you are looking for a niche with a lower threshold of entry, it is better to pay attention to the processing of production and consumption waste, which include useful components. Such waste is created by both the population and enterprises. For example:

scrap metal, including beverage cans;
LED lamp;
mercury lamps, thermometers, other products containing mercury;
waste paper;
tires;
polyethylene;
glass containers;
batteries and accumulators;
electrical appliances.

In total, the list includes 182 On the approval of the list of types of production and consumption wastes, which include useful components, the disposal of which is prohibited.

How to start making money on waste disposal

Think over the details

Before throwing yourself into the pool with your head, you need to sit down and think. In addition to the usual questions for a situation, it is worth asking the following.

1. Where will you get the raw materials from?

There is a direct dependence on what you choose for processing. For example, in many cases it is possible to collect raw materials from organizations for which this waste is a by-product of production. For the acceptance of some types of waste, you can also receive additional money from enterprises. For example, companies are obliged to the Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation of September 3, 2010 No. 681 to conclude contracts for the disposal of mercury-containing lamps, if they use such.

You can appeal to the environmental awareness of the population and install (with the permission of the local administration or the regional operator Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1156 of November 12, 2016) containers for plastic, glass, and so on, or arrange actions for the separate collection of waste, or pay for the delivery of the necessary garbage for you.

Finally, there are landfills. According to the law Federal Law No. 89-FZ of June 24, 1998, the regional operator is also responsible for the disposal of solid municipal waste. But plants for sorting and recycling waste are located far from every corner, not even in all regions.

2. Where will you sell the recycled waste

Let's say you collect batteries and get iron, manganese, zinc, potassium, nickel from them. And then what? You need to clearly understand who can use it and how much you can earn from it.

The cost of one ton of processed and compressed secondary raw materials is approximately as follows: plastic - up to 15 thousand rubles, aluminum cans - up to 50 thousand, rubber crumb - up to 16 thousand, pressed cardboard - up to 12 thousand. A small enterprise will be able to process up to 10 tons of secondary raw materials in one shift.

Denis Sitrakov Head of Grinding and Recycling at Molom

Equip the workshop

Manufacturers offer ready-made lines of equipment for waste processing - turnkey. You can use such a kit or choose each item yourself. In any case, you should understand in advance the technology of work in order to find the optimal solution, not to pay too much, but also not to be left without the necessary device.

For example, the minimum set of equipment for plastic processing costs from 7 million rubles. This will include a shredder with a capacity of up to 6 tons per hour, two conveyors and a control panel.

Denis Sitrakov

At this same stage, you need to think about employees.

Register a business

It is not enough to simply create a company and register it in the tax office. Collection and recycling of waste is an activity licensed by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 03.10.2015 No. 1062, so you will have to obtain the corresponding document from Rosprirodnadzor. To do this, you need to provide the following About the approval of the Administrative Regulations of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources for the provision of state services for licensing activities for the collection, transportation, processing, disposal, disposal, disposal of waste of I-IV hazard classes of paper:

Application for approval of the forms of documents used by the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources in the process of licensing activities for the collection, transportation, processing, disposal, disposal, disposal of waste of I – IV hazard classes.
Documents confirming that you have premises, equipment and vehicles for handling waste.
A document certifying that the state has a specially trained person responsible for allowing people to work with garbage.

You will also need permits from Rospotrebnadzor, Gospozhnadzor and a waste passport.

Let's talk about the latter in more detail. This is a document that contains information about the method of disposal, the degree of potential danger, the source of waste. It is compiled in the company itself in accordance with GOST 30774-2001 Resource saving. Waste management. Waste hazard passport. Here's what you need to do:

Collect documents informing about the hazard class, chemical quality of waste, method of processing, and send them to Rosprirodnadzor for confirmation. A chemical opinion can be obtained from an accredited laboratory.
Draw up a passport.
Agree the passport with Rostekhnadzor.

Establish the reception of raw materials

Fortunately, you thought about where to get it in advance. So all that remains is to organize the process.

For example, you decided to accept waste paper and installed containers for this. You have to decide on the frequency of waste collection, hire a car and negotiate responsibilities with the employees who will collect and bring the paper for recycling.

Things to Remember

You can't get started quickly. It will take 3-4 months on average to complete the paperwork.
It won't be cheap either. The initial investment will amount to several million - the amount depends on which type of waste you choose.
Garbage recycling is the future, but Russia is only at the beginning of its journey. So it can be a great looking business.