Waste compaction is a popular and efficient technique for dealing with high volumes of waste materials. If your business generates significant amounts of waste or recycling (generally over 200kg per day), compacting it can make it safer, easier, and more hygienic to store and transport.
Why Use Waste Compaction?
Effective waste management can be expensive, as you need to store the waste generated by your business, on-site, and arrange for it to be collected and transported to an appropriate disposal facility. The compaction equipment we offer at AtSource Recycling can help you find an effective solution for your company’s waste and recycling in several ways:
Improved Safety and Site Hygiene
Overflowing bins can present serious safety issues, including:
Compacting waste helps to reduce these issues because the your waste will take up less space and is less likely to overflow either in your BOH or in your current containers. It also reduces the risk of pest infestations, saving you money on pest control bills and helping you avoid downtime or disruptions due to pest control visits.
Pilferage can be a particularly concerning issue for hospitality and catering businesses. Food that’s been discarded is often unsafe to consume, so preventing passers-by from being able to take waste and organic items from your bins reduces the risk of anyone becoming unwell from consuming spoiled foods.
Fewer Waste Collections Needed
Compacting waste or recycling means it takes up less space, resulting in fewer hauler collections which offers less time you’ll need to spend on waste management. Loading a compacter and turning it on is a relatively quick, safe, and easy job for your staff, compared to transporting loose waste to exposed front load containers in a parking lot or alley. Using a compactor will reduce the amount of time your staff spend on “moving trash around”, and ultimately, saves you money on commercial waste collection by significantly reducing haulers’ scheduled pick-ups for regular front load containers.
As an added side effect, reducing the service frequency required to haul waste and recycling helps cut down on fuel, making your waste management efforts even better for the environment — and your business’s bottom line.
A Better Public Image
Waste and recycling compaction makes it easier to store and transport these streams, therefore reducing the likelihood of having overflowing bins that are visible to the public. Piles of waste and recycling can be an eyesore and create the appearance your business doesn’t focus on environmental impact or initial visual impact when a customer approaches your business from outside.
Compacting waste and recycling makes it easier to keep it out of sight and contained from varmints and vagrants, so members of the community won’t have to walk past piles of garbage, or endure the smells and sights of open containers.
Being seen as a tidy, organized, and environmentally conscious business nowadays goes a long way toward improving public sentiment to your business, giving you a competitive edge in these popular viewpoints.
Improve Your Business’ Waste Management Strategy
AtSource Recycling offers waste and recycling compaction equipment for a wide variety of industries, including: hospitality, health care, industrial, commercial, government, and retail organizations. We also provide equipment for use in schools, commercial centers and residential complexes; we have a solution to fit any customer’s size and needs
Whether you’re a building manager or project manager looking to buy waste and recycling equipment for your property, or a restaurant or hotel manager looking to rent/lease some equipment, AtSource Recycling can help you find a beneficial solution; we specialize in customized and cost effective solutions for your waste and recycling equipment needs. Our team will help you find the best equipment to suit your business’s ever changing waste and recycling needs.
We have served 1,000’s of customers across Canada and the United States, and we look forward to serving you, too. If you’re interested in learning how we can help you handle your recycling and garbage more efficiently, please contact us today to request a quote.
