5.1 pick-up truck bins/found materials housing

Description: Garbage/recycling bins on cost, repurpose the materials into low income rentals/renovations and/or re-sell what has value.

Use junky pickup trucks as bins, park them and the customer can call when they're full. Have a mark on the body and the rear rim. If they line up, its full. This only works if cheaper than bins including mechanical repair costs. Focus on heavy durable materials (bricks, rocks, concrete landscaping pieces, plywood, shingles) that people want gone but don’t want to pay to lift and move.

In case of dead bin trucks, you will need one heavy duty tow truck. Can be used/leased out to towing companies when not needed.

Customer can throw anything in the bin, we sort at the yard into larger bin trucks (or use another company) to dispose of each type of material

There needs to be a delivery of materials option as well, direct from bin truck to new owner.

Pros trucks are the bins, less specialty trucks and equipment. Less skill/licenses for drivers needed. Could capture all small jobs where sorting would make multiple bins not worth it. getting paid to gather materials instead of buying outright. Workers paid to unload and sort, more hours for them.

Cons margins could be low, possibly too low. Double handing all material creates a cost, different trucks for the dump (could use a couple junky dump trucks) creates a cost. Need younger drivers to unload materials of non-dump trucks. Need a mobile mechanic when a truck goes down, becomes unsafe (no wipers in rain). Might annoy contractors to use junk materials (unless kept out of elements). Driver has to bus home/have another car to leave truck on site. Site guys overloading the truck.

5.2 Fact Bible

Description: Evidence Bible-each verse that has historical extra biblical evidence for or against it's claim has a link referring to it. Admit where there are gaps in historical record, evidence etc. It would have to be app based and website based to accommodate links and keep them up to date with current archaeological and historical information.

Price gives money to translation efforts of obscure languages and pays for continuing research and updates.

Thus could be expanded to a Quran version, Book of Mormon and other religious texts. The evidence links would be provided by scholars of each religious text, the reader makes up their own mind, follows the links to their source material.

Pros there is a need of an honest defense of the Bible in a centralized database with current info. Christians, former Christians and skeptics would find use for this. Religion is polarizing, therefore popular, especially the truth of the claims.

Cons has this been done in some form or another already? Arguments on what get included, what doesn’t? what is “canon” what is sacrilege. It could start endless arguments among scholars about what is evidence and what isn’t

5.3 Repurposed Mine

Description: Look for alternative uses for used up or inactive mine sites. Some of these need to be temporary use as the value of the minerals may increase in future leading to re-opening. The firm would own/operate multiple old mine sites.

Mushroom/ other fungus farm, Jail, Paintball, garbage dump, nuclear waste, natural gas storage. Weather volatility in drilling the gas (need the ground to freeze to move equipment) makes demand for gas storage higher. It is stored in formerly tapped reservoirs under the earth in Canada. CO2 sequestering, Oil storage, Government contracts for clean-up, decommission, Military use, storage of sensitive items, Hobby miners/co-op mining, Flood and use for cave diving, Server farm, secure storage (people want stuff well hidden, we pick it up and store it in a mine shaft), Power generation using weight dropping generators, water movement, Temporary refugee camp.

NAOMI (National orphaned and abandoned mines initiative) tracks these. There are concerns of owners walking away from them

Pros governments would like to see these fixed, it would make them look good to environmentally conscious voters. These are often abandoned with infrastructure nearby or at the site (machinery, man camps, roads, utilities, power).

Cons mines are often in remote areas, costs to make them secure for human use in a new way can be high.

5.4 Invasive butchery

Description: Invasive species butcher shop and meat distributor. Sells meat, creates recipes and markets itself to restaurants, butchers and grocery stores. Hire people who have experience hunting these animals. Pet food, farm animal feed. Dead stock businesses may already be doing this. The meat can be turned into jerky for military, aid in desperate areas.

Possums in New Zealand, rabbits in Australia, deer in Canada and the United States.

In Canada and the US deer cause many road accidents as they frequent highways and roads at night and walk into traffic. A service can be a truck mounted team that specifically hunts deer that are near roadways, contracted out by the local municipality to reduce road accidents.

Pros This is a cheap source of meat, easily collected. Pet ownership and clean food is a big trend and growing. Sending dried meat as aid to starving populations could be a good political move, gain favour with farmers tired of the pests and those with a heart for starving people in other lands.

Cons by-in by people may be hard, getting people to eat different meats they aren’t used to or consider the animal dirty. What margins are there on pet food?

5.5 Take back my person

Description: can your mined personal info be captured and deleted? Continuous? Maybe it can be scrambled or modified to avoid detection. Full service defense against tech grabbing data points. Internet scrubbing is this idea.

The service regularly explains with data and proof, how, what to wear, what to buy, how you are tracked and by whom. Can also actively take down deep fakes, expose them, crash and hack them.

Pros people want guilt free and private internet usage. The paranoia and genuine anxiety about internet use creates the need for this. This is an ongoing service model, creates continual income. It needs to be continuous as advertises change their tactics online.

Cons immoral/criminal people can use it to hide. This may make enemies of advertisers looking to gather data points on individuals. They could “hack back” or try to impede this technology. There may be other online services that accomplish this in other ways.

5.6 Eclectic Car rentals, car collection

Description: Is there a business model that facilitates a car collection? Odd Rentals? Could be done as import/export of vehicles. Finding people’s dream cars from different parts of the world. Muscle cars and US sized trucks are wanted in Australia/New Zealand. Toyota Hilux’s may have a market in North America. How difficult is it to modify cars for emissions standards/left or right hand drive?

Another avenue is to buy up partially (or fully) built restoration projects and heavily customized cars. For a reduced selling price the owner can get free rentals/preferred dates on the car they sold. This would work well in areas with lots of tourism.

Each vehicle needs a CD with a playlist on it that fits the car. Ask car clubs, Reddit etc for suggestions.

Pros you get access to awesome cars as the owner and others get to enjoy them as well. Most people can’t afford/wouldn’t want the responsibility of owning their dream car. People with custom cars they cant afford anymore get to still enjoy them at times without paying storage and maintenance costs.

Cons lots of competition, people doing this as import dealers.

5.7 Southern camp food

Description: BBQ camp food, you bring a slow cooker and roast the food, taking it out at meal times. Sell idea to kids camps, man camps at resource projects. Anywhere remote that is hard to bring food to.

This has to be able to bring the smokers to more remote places than other catering companies.

Pros awesome, popular food, saves the cost of kitchen equipment and labour for the bulk of the meals.

Cons southern barbeque isn’t the healthiest, camps often have kitchens staffed by low paid kids. Hard to compete on cost here. These exist without catering to camps (rent a bbq). Competing with catering as well

5.8 Rolling bank

Description: Armoured Truck based Bank branch. For cashing cheques without ID in rough neighborhoods, serving the people there. Lower cost of cashing than payday loan places that would usually be used. In rough neighborhoods the payday loan places and local banks will have drug dealers, armed robbers hanging around them looking to catch people leaving with money. Has to be in a different place on different days (deters drug dealers, helps the cops figure out who is dealing).

What else could the truck do? Mobile banking to a community that is isolated? In an isolated community (fly-in, boat access only or requires an ice road in winter) the bank could visit on a schedule to handle various banking needs. Some communities aren’t isolated but have too few people to afford the operating cost of a physical branch.

Pros no property costs, trucks, vault and office. Armoured car services or large existing banks may try to buy or copy this idea. Less staff than a bank, more specialized. It provides service to more areas without the high cost of a physical branch but still provides services to those who don’t use or trust online banking (the elderly).

Cons armed robbery, possibly bringing theft into different areas that don’t have this issue currently. Would the fees pay for the truck? Is there enough of a margin here to operate? Licensing a bank is a long process, this may have to be a branch of service tied to a major bank.

5.9 Fire and Ice gym

Description: gym located underground (or above) and kept colder or hotter than any other. Make sure other gyms couldn't replicate this with their current air conditioning or heating system. The temperature should have a such a wide range that no normal gym could replicate this.

Certain days of the week/times of day are for certain temperatures, or it could be one hot side and one cold side of the same gym/building. It could gradually climb or drop during every week. Monday is coldest, Sunday is hottest. These could incorporate cold plunges and saunas as well.

Pros unique for gyms, gives people a workout option that they didn’t have before. Can be popular at very cold or hot times of the year/locations in general. Not everyone wants to sweat a lot or wear thin clothes when working out, this provides an easy option.

Cons gyms are like nightclubs, only popular and profitable for 5 years or so. This gym may die out in five years as the fad of it ends. At that point you may not have recouped the heating/cooling costs that this gyms initial investment required.