What the Newsletter is all about

The Brown Sheet is a subscription service for fiber generators of waste corrugated, lower grade fibers and office paper produced by homeowners and offices. It reports pricing that up until now seemed somewhat mysterious of how the prices are determined each month. The twice monthly newsletter concentrates on 6 different regions of the United States to find the high price in that area being paid for baled products in full semi load quantities. The Brown Sheet also factors in premiums being paid for consistent sales direct to mills that have to count on minimum amounts of tonnage needed monthly. There are few sales that go direct to Mill buyers because the system has been setup to allow middle men known as brokers to scalp $5 to $20 per ton in order to arrange transportation and guarantee quality of the product, that is why brokers make calls on facilities 2 to 3 times per year. But for those generators able to break past and cut out the middle man they are rewarded with a $5 to $15 premium - which are never posted on released rate sheets you see from your broker.

The Brown Sheet is prepared for Generators and influenced by what subscribers pass on in order to assemble regional information. Individuals, companies and recyclers can help structure pricing trends by sharing information instead of having the pricing dictated to them. The Brown Sheet also interviews buyers but factors their rates per past performance.

The premise for forming The Brown Sheet was developed to be an information exchange. It came about from email that was received from the web pages of our sister website www.recycleguy.com. Visitors there found the How to Recycle Corrugated Cardboard informative and actually wanted more information than was being given. The main question coming from first time Recyclers seemed to be how do I reduce the waste stream to lower the company waste service costs. The answer to that was easy, conduct a trash audit and start pulling out recyclables such as uncontaminated corrugated from trash bins and recycling it. Now that they have invested in balers and are recycling they want to know what value it has and how to get the best price, some are even far enough along to ask how those monthly prices are determined. Not many know that there are 6 to 10 different regions of the United States, Lower Canada and Northern Mexico who also operate off of U.S. pricing.

The Brown Sheet is the start of something innovative. It is a cooperative where recyclers feed in pricing that form trends in order to determine demand. It allow producers to be vested with the knowledge to haggle with the buyer about the price and terms they are receiving for their baled fiber products.  The twice monthly publication is a short newsletter which helps inform producers of price changes for corrugated and low grades of fiber products and what current market conditions are and possibly will be in the future.

The Brown Sheet is a publication for recyclers that are not heavily involved in the industry and only get their news about their baled corrugated that now has value when they talk with their buyer. The Newsletter is written and published by those that have been in the business and wish to pass on their successful marketing tips as well as warn you of their failures and things you should watch out for.

This months 1st Edition for February talks about the surge in pricing the first time China influenced the market. It's an interesting read and we hope you will enjoy your short history lesson. Read the first edition of the month for free, I hope we will make you a subscriber from it, click here Show me a Sample If you are just a corrugated recycler you will probably need to visit the Grades Page too in order to educate yourself what the different materials are listed in the Newsletter.

Come join us, the cost is minimal the equivalent of 300 pounds of cardboard per month. If you find that your buyer was always giving you top dollar you are free to discontinue at anytime.  You will truly learn from the newsletter and it is a cheap education at $18 to $25 per month, something you can take back to your Green Committee.

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Last modified: 03/15/2008

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