Company For Recycling Your Baits

[Adleyfishes]

20 minutes ago, Fishin Dad said:

Adley,  Nice work not being deterred and following through on your plan.  I hope things work out and keep growing.  I am a teacher, and we definitely need more kids like you with passion, a plan, and fortitude.  Good Luck Bud!!

Thank you I love being able to say I own an eco-friendly company.

[Yumeya]

I like what you are doing, I work for in a fishing department and there is so much plastic available it kinda 

makes me sick.

 

You could also try to make some biodegradable lures and use another form of packaging besides plastic.

 

Good luck and I hope your business blows up, the world needs less plastic... 

[MAN]

Glad to see such a young kiddo with the entrepreneurial spirit. I have been remelting and pouring my baits for several years now. Like mentioned above....its a mess and not worth the time if you are trying to pour anywhere near perfect colors. The salts and oils in the used baits cause discoloration and sometimes just plain burn and ruin the batch.  Only reason I do it is because I like to just mix them all and make some dark color baits.  They are ugly but they work because fish don't care. I wouldn't imagine me being able to sell them.  You will need virgin plasticizer to get sell-able baits. 

[Westcoast]

Plastics are on of the biggest scourge on our environment. Especially in our oceans, lakes and rivers where fish and other marine creatures accumulate the chemicals from plastics within there systems leading to behavioural changes, reduced reproductive capacity, reduced survival of young. We should all be doing our part to recycle all plastics we come across in all aspects of our lives and try to select products with less packaging and high recyclability and recycled content. Congratulations on a great idea. I’d love to be able to send you my used plastics and purchase some of your recycled baits. Kids like you give me hope for the future of this planet. Sorry for lousing it up. 

[Hower08]

What is the name of the company you started

[WRB]

Recycling soft plastic worms that are made of plastisol may be possible however the end product ends up tough, stiff and ugly colors. Plastisol is a chemically activated by heat and can't be reverted. The plan to regrind soft plastics up make into a product that fisherman will buy may sound good but in reality it's not practical.

A business setting up recycle centers at lakes for anglers to deposite discarded line and soft plastics may be feasible by providing a clean up service with local lakes. The problem is you pay for all the costs of disposal and containers.

Tom