by "Transit" (gear-chip)
Published 06/30/2017 at 13:23
by "Transit" (gear-chip)
Published 06/30/2017 at 13:23
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All that sweet, sweet plastic...
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"Transit" (gear-chip)
06/30/2017 at 13:25, STARS: 1
and Kinja’d.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
06/30/2017 at 13:38, STARS: 0
I want to say one word to you - just one word. Are you listening?
Plastics.
"Orange Exige" (OrangeExige)
06/30/2017 at 13:42, STARS: 1
I need a better visual... What the hell does $2 million of plastic bins look like?!? And how did this guy transport them??
"jimz" (jimz)
06/30/2017 at 13:46, STARS: 1
just for anyone interested, we’re probably not talking about Rubbermaid stuff here. Re-usable dunnage/bins for assembly plants are pallet sized, pretty big. And expensive.
why they’d be worth so much to recycle is beyond me, but since a lot of them are molded in with who owns them, trying to re-sell these would be hard.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
06/30/2017 at 13:48, STARS: 1
Looks like the scrap payout was around $460,000. Presuming $2m was the retail value or estimated cost of the bins when new? Regardless, that’s got to be an insane volume of plastic.
"jimz" (jimz)
06/30/2017 at 13:48, STARS: 1
a lot of these:
the nice thing is that the sides fold inward when empty, so when you’re returning empty bins to the supplier you can stack 4 or 5 flat empties in the space of one full one.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
06/30/2017 at 13:56, STARS: 0
I wonder if he stole parts totes....
"Orange Exige" (OrangeExige)
06/30/2017 at 16:31, STARS: 0
Fancy! But hot damn - there had to have been SO many of them!
"Orange Exige" (OrangeExige)
06/30/2017 at 16:32, STARS: 0
Yeah that’s what I took. Somebody else replied with a picture of what the boxes looked like and still, I just can’t imagine how many there were...
"jimz" (jimz)
06/30/2017 at 18:19, STARS: 1
yes, there probably were. I’ve been in a number of auto plants (Sterling Heights Assembly, Jefferson North Assembly, Dearborn Truck, Michigan Assembly, Wixom Assembly, Chicago Assembly, Kansas City Assembly.)
these things are goddamn everywhere. There’s hundreds in the plant at any given time. bet this guy was “salami slicing” (take one here and there hoping no one will notice.)
but I still don’t get how it made him that much money. they’re usually molded from high-density polyethylene (HDPE,) I can’t imagine that being worth that much.