Organic waste constitutes a large portion of the waste that is generated every year globally. Incidentally, it is also one of the most common constituents of landfills. Almost 40 million metric tons of waste end up in landfills each year and organic waste accounts for nearly 30% of the total. These organic materials can be treated to produce nutrient-rich compost, …
Recycling Commodity Collection: Approaches to Boost Your Business’ Bottom Line
Recycling plays a major role in US industry. A lot of the raw materials that go into the manufacturing process across various industries constitute recycled materials. For manufacturing organizations and factories, managing the waste stream is a major challenge. Recycling commodities make up a large part of the waste stream and making sure that little to no commodities end up …
Grocery Store Waste Management: How Waste Control Can Enable Concrete Cost Savings
Waste management is one of the most challenging tasks that businesses struggle with. Inconsistent services by the haulers, improper planning, fluctuating costs, and a myriad of other issues plague waste stream management. These concerns are valid for businesses like grocery stores or supermarkets too. Given the large quantities of perishable food products and other organic materials that grocers deal with, …
Getting Value Out of Your Baled Cardboard Waste: How Waste Control’s Commodity Waste Solution Can Help You Cut Waste Disposal Costs
Cardboard is the most common packaging material in the US and the world over. Moreover, it’s a material that’s very commonly recycled. That being said, cardboard waste can cause big logistical headaches. Given how most raw materials and finished products are packed in cardboard boxes, it doesn’t take much time to pile up in an industrial setting. While local recycling …
Unlocking The Potential of Your Waste Commodities: How Waste Control Can Get You 2X Better Value for your Recyclable Materials
Your company’s waste can have a great impact on your bottom line. For any growing business, the primary focus is of course increasing their revenue and being profitable. While you work tirelessly on this front, cutting costs and sustainability are important pursuits too. That’s where waste and recyclable commodities come in. Recycling costs can be restrictive and often drain your …
How Waste Control Empowered Juneshine To Cut Recycling Costs in Half Through Value-Added, Downstream Waste Commodity Sales
Recycling costs that allow companies to create a sustainable work environment can sometimes be restrictive for a large business especially when the production lines cannot stop. Without a proper waste management strategy in place, things can soon descend into chaos. It’s also quite easy to deposit materials into the trash which ultimately goes into landfills but this is both economically …
Benefits of Recycling Commercial Waste
With over 100 million people affected, commercial pollution has become one of the biggest global killers. Commercial pollution has many wastes such as paper, cardboard, cans, retail packaging and food wrappers. Therefore, no matter which industry you are in, waste recycling is essential. Also, consumers demand industries to be responsible for their waste by finding ways to deal with their …
Defining waste management
277 million tons of waste are produced every year just by the United States, a figure far higher than any other country in the entire world and it is for this reason that the US government has joined forces with environmental groups to try and find waste management solutions to deal with this problem. But what is waste management? Simply …
Is Your Waste Hauler Trying to Get You to Increase Your Service?
Many of our clients express frustration that they receive a barrage of phone calls and emails from their hauler about their trash and recycling containers being overfilled. Maybe you have experienced this too. The typical approach is that a hauler representative, often from another State, will call or email you regarding the waste overages and suggest increasing your service. The …
Commercial Waste Disposal Tips
Although commercial businesses produce large amounts of waste, there is surprisingly little recycling being done by such organizations, which results in material that could be recycled instead ending up in landfills. By making use of a reputable commercial waste disposal company that is environmentally conscious and dedicated to sustainability, companies can not only help the world but also reduce their …