This document discusses inefficient waste equipment and provides solutions. It notes that over 60% of clients in the past 18 years have had issues with inefficient equipment. The document defines waste equipment as receptacles serviced by waste haulers, and explains that service levels (pickup frequency) are often inaccurate, with 70% of clients being serviced too frequently. Thorough audits can reveal savings opportunities, such as changing to larger dumpsters picked up less often. Common solutions include fewer dumpsters, compactors, larger/smaller containers, or adjusting service levels. Compactors are recommended for high waste generators or those with food waste.

1. Do I Have Inefficient Waste
Equipment? Part 1
Presented by:
Andrea Suarez

2. Over 60% of clients
in the past 18 years
have had inefficient
waste equipment.
Could you be one of
them?

3. Today, we’ll go over
what waste equipment
is and what problems
you could have.

4. What is Waste Equipment?

5. Your waste equipment
comprises every waste
and recycling receptacle
serviced by your hauler.

6. This includes, but is not
limited to:
- Compactors
- Front Load Dumpsters
- Open Top Dumpsters
- Balers
- Toters

7. The efficiency of your
waste equipment has a
direct impact on your
waste spend.

8. If you don’t have the
equipment you truly
need, or if you have
too much
equipment, you’ll
overpay.

9. You’ll also overpay if
your service levels are
incorrect.
“Service levels” indicate
how often trash and
recycling is picked up at
your location.

10. About 70% of the
clients we’ve worked
with in the past 18
years are being
serviced too
frequently!
Are you one of them?

11. How Your Service Levels are Ineffective

12. Your hauler is paid
to pick up your
trash, not to find
cost-cutting waste
solutions.

13. As a result, we’ve
seen inaccurate
service levels occur in
almost every state -
regardless of which
waste vendor was
employed.

14. What exactly do we
mean by inaccurate
service levels?
We mean that your
real waste disposal
needs have no
correlation with what
you’re paying for.

15. You may be paying for 5
pick-ups a week when
you only actually need 2.
Or, alternatively, your
dumpsters are too big.

16. Thorough Audits Reveal
Savings Opportunities

17. Suppose you have a
location in Raleigh, NC with
two 6-yard dumpsters that
is serviced three times a
week by waste
management.

18. We would find out:
- How full those containers are
when serviced.
- The equipment history for the
site.
- Pricing options for less frequent
service.
- Whether the materials in these
containers can be recycled.

19. We’d find that your
dumpsters are only about half
full when serviced, and that
it’s most cost-effective to pay
larger dumpsters that get
serviced fewer times per
week.

20. After checking in with you,
we’d implement the
change, ensuring all parties
involved are kept in the
loop.

21. A typical client in this scenario
could save as much as $3000
over the lifetime of their waste
contract.

22. Waste Equipment Solutions

23. For clients who have
insufficient equipment
problems, we most often
recommend one or more of
the following solutions:

24. ● Fewer dumpsters
● A compactor
● More dumpsters (with
fewer pickups)
● Larger containers
● Smaller containers

25. What we recommend is based on
several variables:
● whether your current hauler can
amend your equipment,
● whether other area haulers can
provide cheaper service,
● when your contract expires, and
● what limitation you may have
onsite.

26. Today, we’ll cover the top
two recommendations we
most frequently make:
fewer dumpsters and
compactors.

27. Waste Disposal Solutions:
Fewer Waste and Recycling
Dumpsters

28. Are your dumpsters full
each time they are serviced?
Does your dumpster usage
differ seasonally? Do you
need every dumpster at
every location? You may be
paying for wasted space.

29. We often remedy this
situation by evaluating your
unique location needs.
First, we’ll scour your
invoice history.

30. Do you have any overages?
If so, how many? If you
have none at all, your
dumpsters may not be
used to maximum capacity.

31. We help our client find their
usage balance: you don’t
want to pay for too little
service and end up with
overage fees.

32. You also don’t want
to pay for too much
service.

33. If you have a waste container
that is charged by weights,
we’ll look at your tonnage
history.

34. If you consistently have low
container weights, this is an
indicator that either you
need few containers or that
you ended fewer pickups.

35. Our recommendations will
take into account pricing from
other market providers and
your waste hauler contract
specifications.

36. We also evaluate your
seasonal needs. You may need
a contract that stipulates
different levels of service
based on the time of year.

37. You may need five
pickups a week in July, but
only two in November.
Tailored contracts make
sure you’re not paying for
service five times a week
all year if you don’t need
it.

38. Waste Disposal Solutions:
Compactors

39. There are many reasons
you may need a
compactor, but here are
the top two:
● You’re a higher trash
generator.
● You generate food
waste.

40. A waste compactor
crushes garbage so that
fewer pickups are
necessary.

41. It requires an investment up
front, but it can save quite a
bit of money over time.

42. The most frequently
used size is 30 cubic
yards.
It requires an investment
up front, but it can save
quite a bit of money over
time.

43. We typically recommend
compactors to clients who
produce larger amounts of
waste and those who have
space at their site.