Decentralizing Waste Collection: A Business Strategy for Community Prosperity
Waste management has long been a challenge in the United States, but solutions to our most pressing issues are within reach.
As waste management company owners, you have the power to turn these problems into opportunities, creating significant returns for your businesses and local communities.
Let’s explore how we can solve three critical issues and generate great economic benefits.
The Problem: Over-Reliance on Landfills
Even if landfills are closing or finishing their space, many communities continue to rely on them.
It creates rising costs and environmental hazards mainly connected with old landfills.
This practice strains local budgets, devalues surrounding properties, and demands expensive environmental cleanups.
The Solution: Decentralized Waste Processing Facilities
What will happen if your truck, instead of passing and collecting all the types of waste together, will collect already segregated and shredded waste?
You will not only be more efficient but also able to accelerate the process of selling secondary raw materials. This will obviously have a positive impact on the local economy, supporting the fastest growth of facilities that can use secondary raw materials to produce new products.
The Problem: Inefficient Waste Collection Systems
Inconsistent and inefficient waste collection leads to higher operational costs and public health hazards, ultimately hampering local economies.
The Solution: Optimized Waste Collection Services
We live in the world of data, why don’t use them to optimize the service?
What will happen if your track is able to receive the info in real-time about the amount of waste in the bins and redefine the route, optimizing the load for the type and quantity of secondary raw materials available?
It will change your company's financial results!
That’s what will happen.
This technology is now available, and it’s already in place in several countries worldwide with great results for companies and citizens. Indeed, the advantage is that the community can also receive a better collection service tailored to their real needs. It will also reduce the health risks.
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The Problem: Inadequate Public Education and Awareness
A lack of public education on waste management leads to lower recycling rates and higher contamination, increasing costs and reducing potential revenue.
Think briefly about the money you invested in your facility for better waste segregation. Unfortunately, even with all the technologies, contamination is still high because some products have changed, and your technology still needs to be adapted.
The Solution: Educational Campaigns and Incentive Programs
There is a way; it’s called education.
This way, based on the creation of educational material, is the only way to change the quality of the waste you are collecting.
You know the amount of time that is needed to educate people, but what will happen if you have a complete system able to drive the rerouting of your trucks, able to decentralize the waste segregation, and also able to support your education plans giving a great ally to your educational materials?
The answer is simple: you’ll be happier, thrive more, and improve your waste management company's positive impact on your community.
Well, this futuristic solution already exists.
It’s called REPOD , and it’s a completely decentralized waste segregation system.
REPOD is a decentralized system that can talk with a central unit that collects data in real-time and shares it with your truck that is already on the way, giving him information about what secondary raw materials are available and in which quantities.
This means that you can optimize the collection for the quantity of waste collected and the type of secondary raw materials your clients need.
That’s a complete game-changer solution.
It’s a way to boost the local economy by promoting the creation of new facilities that are able to use these secondary raw materials to produce new goods.
If you want to move your waste management company, that’s the way.
To Your Success
Sam Barrili
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5moSmart move towards sustainability, Sam!