3 More Ways You're Overspending On Waste Disposal

If you monitor your waste management closely, guess what? You’re likely still sitting on savings. 

And if you don’t monitor your waste management at all, guess what? You’re almost certainly sitting on savings. 

How do we know?

In the 18 years we’ve been in business, we’ve seen both scenarios countless times. 

Take Tad, for instance. He was in charge of 75 Wendy’s and had already tried to cut his waste spend - but we knew how to find $321,600 more. Scott from Landura Property Management also reached out to cut spend and we are saving him over $100,000 each year.

You’re overspending on your waste disposal management, and you don’t have to.

How?

  1. You’re being serviced too frequently 

  2. You don’t have rate limits

  3. You don’t have monitoring in place.

We know that 90% of companies nationwide overspend on their waste disposal - odds are you’re one of them. So one or more of these issues is already happening on your site. 

Let’s take a close look at each of these. 

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1. Too much service

We find that about 20% of our clients are being serviced too frequently. 

This means that your dumpster are being picked up when they’re not full. Any empty space in your dumpster is wasted space. 

If you’re paying $400 a month for two 8 yard dumpsters that are serviced 2x/week, you could be wasting $200 of that if you actually only need service 1x/week. Multiply this by several locations, and you can see how the savings accumulates. 

If you have several locations, there’s a good chance that your service levels are not accurate. 

We find that haulers are often very willing to change service rates - even if our clients have just signed new service agreements or are in the middle of a contract term. It’s one way we put our industry experience at your service!

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2. No rate limits

If your contract doesn’t specifically prohibit rate limits, you’re going to get hikes. 

Most haulers will increase prices by 1-4 each year at a rate of up to 10%. Say you’ve employed a hauler for 4 years. At the beginning of the first year, you paid them $10,000 a month. At the end of the first you, you could be paying almost $5,000 more. 

You need rate limits to avoid being price gouged. 

Most haulers will charge what they can get away with. You can stop letting this happen. 

We make your contracts airtight. We know what language to include to prevent hikes. And we know how to fight rate increases when they do happen.

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3. No bill review

Not monitoring your waste management is costing you. 

If you or your staff aren’t monitoring your waste disposal invoices, you’re not catching the errors that happen 10% of the time. And if you’re not catching the mistakes, you’re paying for them. 

One of our new client came on board with a contract stipulated no regulatory fees. Guess what they were being charged month after month? 

Hundreds of dollars in fees. 

They had no idea. And they weren’t doing anything wrong!

Your staff’s time is better spent tacking real priorities. With us as your waste ally, you have experts who: 

  • fight on your behalf,

  • know what problems to look for, 

  • know how to find hidden savings

Your staff aren’t waste disposal specialists. And they shouldn’t have to be. We make your teams more efficient by doing what we do best: addressing service issues on your behalf. 

We find review your invoices, find credits, and update you and your staff accordingly. Because we believe that your time is valuable - and it should be treated as such. 

Get a waste audit and get peace of mind

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You can have peace of mind about your service levels. You can be protected from rate limits. And you can have a waste industry expert on your side, reviewing your invoices and fighting on your behalf.  

Put our 18 years of experience to your service. You can’t afford not to.