{"id":59986,"date":"2012-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-launch-recycling-company-target-automotive-industry-with-free-service\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-launch-recycling-company-target-automotive-industry-with-free-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/04\/uri-students-launch-recycling-company-target-automotive-industry-with-free-service\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students launch recycling company, target automotive industry with free service"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 25, 2012 \u2013 Two 溏心vlog免费B站 undergraduate students have launched a recycling company that is saving local automotive companies hundreds of dollars in recycling costs each month.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe students, Dylan Gregory of South Kingstown and Cory Harrigan of Narragansett, call their company Scrap Specialists Recycling, which has an office at 386 South Pier Rd., Narragansett. They invested their own money to purchase 12 dumpsters of various sizes and contracted with several vendors that pay the students in return for the recyclables they collect.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe both had a pre-existing passion for environmental issues, and when we took a class on energy economics, we saw that there was a lot of opportunity for energy savings through recycling,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cRecycling is something that needs to be done, and people shouldn\u2019t be charged for it.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBeginning last fall, Gregory and Harrigan tested the waters by partnering with Crown Collision, a successful auto body business with offices in three locations in Rhode Island. The students dropped off a dumpster at each location and instructed company personnel to toss in all of their recyclables \u2013 paper, boxes, plastics, auto parts and scrap metal. When the dumpster is full, the students remove and sort the materials, bail them, and vendors haul the bails away.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cCrown Collision previously had to pay a monthly fee for dumpsters as well as a tipping fee each time the dumpsters had to be emptied, but now we have our dumpsters there, empty them as needed, and don\u2019t charge them anything,\u201d said Gregory. \u201cThey\u2019re saving $200 to $400 per month per location, and we make our money by selling the recyclable materials.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe success of their first efforts led them to solicit other automotive companies.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe see great potential with the automotive industry,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cAs far as I know, we\u2019re the only company targeting them and the only ones handling all the recyclables in one container at no cost to them.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe company now has a half dozen customers, and everything they earn is invested back into the business to purchase additional dumpsters.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOnce we get 30 or 40 customers, we\u2019ll have more capital to work with and be able to pay ourselves a little something,\u201d said Gregory.<\/p>\n


\n\tHarrigan is studying abroad in New Zealand this semester, where Gregory said he is finding some great new ideas and different ways of thinking about recycling, especially about the composting of food waste. That\u2019s an idea that Gregory took to local farmers, and together they are exploring how best to launch a local food composting initiative at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe students\u2019 company is a labor of love for both Gregory and Harrigan, and they hope it will turn into full-time jobs for them both when they graduate.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI love getting in the dumpster and sorting recyclables,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cI absolutely love what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tCompanies interested in contracting with Scrap Specialists Recycling can contact Gregory at 401-633-4112 or Dylan@scrapspecialists.com<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\n Dylan Gregory (left) and Cory Harrigan<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 25, 2012 \u2013 Two 溏心vlog免费B站 undergraduate students have launched a recycling company that is saving local automotive companies hundreds of dollars in recycling costs each month. The students, Dylan Gregory of South Kingstown and Cory Harrigan of Narragansett, call their company Scrap Specialists Recycling, which has an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}