Before Plastic Crates - Wood Containers Ruled
Posted: Sunday, October 18, 2009
by Cecil Taylor
Mattress Recycling
At this writing, human job creation is a monumental issue and if using wood crates creates jobs, then it behooves intelligent people to give it a second look.
Smash a plastic crate into pieces and you get trash. Separate a wood crate into pieces and you get material to build other things of value - shelves, tables, small chairs, bird houses, smaller containers, and with the parts of the wooden crate you smash up - fuel and compost. Wood is yet more flexible than plastic.
More importantly, when plastic crates hit the marketplace few if any considered the cost of their ultimate disposal - especially in landfills or the cost of melting them down to make new products. It is always easier to show a profit if one can ignore any or all of the costs of producing a product.
When jobs are the priority, wood packing containers built by humans first have a rather long useful life cycle and then are simply easier to reconfigure into other reusable purposes than plastic crates and finally, they have the added benefit of organically decomposing rather quickly when placed in a landfill.
Every night a large majority of the population lays down for a good nights sleep resting comfortably on a mattress supported by a set of box springs which most likely have a wooden frame. Part of mattress recycling deals with the reuse/recycling of the box springs wood frame. When the mattress recycler separates the steel springs in a box springs from its wood frame, if done somewhat carefully, dimensional lumber from the wood frame becomes available as a product for sale.
For the purpose of this article and in reality, this dimensional lumber is suitable for humans to make into wood shipping crates. This is the supply side of job creation.
When supply side is matched by an equal or higher demand side, a market is created and the new jobs can be realized.
Earlier, oil based plastic crates essentially took away the market for wood crates. If you have recently tried to buy an antique wood crate - these are pricy to say the least. So, to create new jobs with new affordable wood crates some good ole' American ingenuity needs to take place.
In America's Walmart world, the rule is that no empty truck goes anywhere. To put this current transportation tenant into practice with new wooden man-made crates, consider a couple of possibilities - California produce shippers packing their product in wooden crates going to New York and New York shipping a finished product back to California in the same crates. How about Idaho shipping potatoes to Florida and Florida shipping oranges to Idaho in the same crates? How about USPS, UPS, Fed Ex, etc. all using a standard size(s) reusable wood crate with a small return deposit fee - to help America create human jobs? And, as the greatest challenge of all - how about shipping American made products in wood crates? What is your idea for using wood crates? Tell somebody what your personal idea is - America needs new jobs.
Cecil Taylor is the Inventor of the Spring Compactor Invention. For further information on Mattress Recycling and the Spring Compactor Invention, please visit www.MattressRecycling.biz .
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Hi Cecil.Welcome to Searchwarp. Your ideas are great and will be very instrumental in providing and creating jobs. I hope the business community gets the message.Nenita
Great job, Cecil. The "cost of disposal," and the cost and practicality of recycling- wasn't thought out.
Good article. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and welcome to Search Warp.Linda D
Welcome to SearchWarp! Very interesting article.
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