Relieve Stress – By Working with a Waste and Recycling Managed Services Partner

By Carmine Esposito, National Waste Associates

Overseeing business operations can be extremely stressful. A lot of time is spent worrying about controlling costs, maintaining an efficient work environment and ensuring facilities are running as smoothly as possible – among many other operating stresses. By enlisting help from a managed waste and recycling services provider, you can relax, at least when it comes to the changing waste landscape. This type of company can provide expert advice, create optimized waste management plans, and manage waste service processes and providers on your behalf.

Managed waste service providers help you save time, can reduce costs, and relieve the hassles of handling waste on your own. Here are just a few functions a waste management professional will handle for you:

1. Optimize waste efficiency across all your locations

Not every location is exactly the same – each one can have unique requirements when it comes to waste disposal and materials recovery. Managed waste service providers know the best haulers that match the needs of each location and will provide the most efficient equipment – even if that means providing different types of equipment from multiple vendors at each location. Check with your waste provider to see if they manage and provide solutions even in franchised or exclusive locations before entering into a contract. Those locations tend to be the most expensive and therefore, should be managed very closely.

2. Save time, money and hassles

Managed waste services for your business is more than ensuring your trash is picked up. If your business has multiple locations, a managed waste services company can help streamline your waste to relieve this burden on your operations and help make them more efficient. Your waste consultant will help consolidate your billing, manage costs and services, provide waste stream optimization, and other aspects you may not even know are affecting your business and profitability.

3. Reincarnation – give your trash another life

Gone are the days where your trash gets dumped in a landfill to decompose. It is important to have a waste audit performed at the beginning of contract engagement and each year thereafter. In addition to finding service level inconsistencies, billing errors or unsubstantiated fees, managed service providers can also identify after-market selling opportunities to transform your waste stream into revenue.

In many cases, these specialists may be able to find buyers who want to buy your materials for reuse or recycling, helping to maximize your supply chain. Additionally, they can target risk and legal compliance, market variables, and tonnage to develop location-specific waste and recycling solutions. These solutions usually lead to cost savings, reducing the volume of waste sent to landfills. To see how your company can keep waste out of landfills, read more here.

4. Access extensive networks

Managed waste service experts will also perform extensive price and service comparisons based on your business requirements, for each and every service provided so you don’t have to. They have extensive networks of pre-screened waste vendor partners that meet insurance, service and financial standards. Managed waste service providers are equipment and disposal site agnostic, so they can design custom commercial waste plans freely and specifically with your best business interests in mind.

5. Help you breathe easier today

Having a team of waste specialists on your side is definitely an advantage when you’re trying to negotiate with different regional and publicly traded mega haulers. Independent managed waste service providers stay updated with current laws, landfill restrictions and municipal regulations to ensure your business is following best practices and minimizing its legal exposure.

You don’t have to handle waste disposal on your own. A good waste advisor will design the best service options to meet your business goals. To maximize your savings, the best providers will frequently audit your existing waste invoices to check current service levels and offer right sizing and optimization solutions. This is a process which usually leads to dramatic cost reductions. If you’re trying to cut costs, save time, and reduce hassles, working with a managed waste service provider could be the best option for you.

If you’d like to speak about the additional benefits of truly managed waste and recycling services and other ways NWA can impact your business, call us at 1-888-692-5005 x6 or email us at sales@nationalwaste.com.