How to Manage Your Waste Effectively

Adequate waste management is a must for any business. By implementing a positive procedure when it comes to your waste, you can not only save your business a large amount of money and hours staff spend dealing with certain material, but you can also help the environment, too.

There are many ways businesses can better manage their waste, and here are a few ways how to effectively do so.

Check How Much Waste Your Business is Actually Producing

This is an important first step so that you’re more knowledgeable when it comes to the waste being produced by your business. You can do this visually by checking the capacity of your waste bins at the end of a week before they are collected. If they are overflowing, for example, you know that you are producing a significant amount of waste. Likewise, if they are only half full, you can gauge the amount of waste your business is producing on a weekly basis and therefore have a better idea of how best to manage it.

Recycle Any Material You Can

Recycling is a must for any individual, whether dealing with business or home waste. Recycling is one of the best ways to manage waste material and help the environment. It’s important to take the time to separate all recyclable materials from the general waste ending up in a landfill, so as to reduce your impact on the environment. A good way for a business to recycle waste material which is produced in large amounts on a daily basis is to invest in a recycling baler which can compact and manage high quantities of material.

Limit Any Waste You Can

Once you’ve analyzed the kind of waste build-up which your business has on a weekly basis, you can then decide whether any of the waste can be limited or avoided. If you’ve noticed a build-up of disposable coffee cups, for example, from a high team of staff, perhaps you could implement a way to avoid this by encouraging personal reusable flasks or office-based mugs.

Reuse Any Waste Where Possible

It’s important to be aware of the other businesses and people around your location. There may be a local business which can make use of a waste item you need to get rid of. If you have a business with a warehouse which uses a lot of wooden pallets and you need to dispose of them, for example, it may be that a local business would happily take in wooden pallets to use them themselves.

Implement a Clear Bin System for Your Business

If your business is going to make use of separate waste bins which are designated individually for each type of material, then it’s important that all employees and even visitors to your premise are aware of the disposal system and where all the bins are. Proper signage is a great way to help with this, and you can also inform staff during official meetings or with a quick email.