Sunday, September 30, 2012

5 Ways for Fixing Your Cardboard Problem

By Steven Yen


Cardboard is one of the largest waste Problems for any business. No matter what you store or sell, it is packed in cardboard. Discarded card clutters floors, fills up dumpsters, and poses a genuine safety risk to your business.

How can a business fix this nuisance and save money?

If you're throwing away your loose card fairly constantly, you are missing the opportunity to save your company cash. For each container full of loose cardboard that is being hauled away, your company may be losing $500 greenbacks minimum. Compacted card can be taken away by a recycle center, for free, and if you have enough volume you might be selling your compacted card for a profit.

Companies over 100 workers a week are mandated to report to the govt their corporation's environmental impact. Each year a company has to reach a baseline on how they are reducing, reusing, and recycling.

1.) Get A Waste Audit - A waste audit will help you estimate how much waste you have. After you know definitely, you can begin to take the steps you need to eliminate the problem.

2.) Don't Dump Loose Card - Baled or compacted card has re-sale value. Chucking away loose card is like throwing cash away. If your waste disposal company charges by the trip, dumpsters full of card might be expensive!

3.) Buy a Baler - Baled cardboard has so many benefits. It decreases space taken up by loose cardboard, and it can scale back the manpower your company wants to get rid of trash. You simply throw the waste in the baler and click a button. There's no need for repeated trips to the dumptruck. Baled cardboard is also neater and safer.

4.) Don't Pay Somebody Else to Throw Your Card Away - A recycle plant will come and take your cardboard away for free , or depending on the volume, remove it at a reasonable profit to you. By recycling your card waste you are not only doing what is right for the environment, you do what is right for your company.

5.) Separate Your Card Properly - While everything has secondhand value in volume, mixed materials have a lot less price. The recycle plant wants to spend more time sorting the waste, so the re-sale value is much lower.

By seeing your card as an opportunity to make your business safer, cleaner, and more worthwhile, you can fix your cardboard problem for all time!




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