Commercial Waste Pickup and Trash Collection

We arrange the collection through a service provider and hold that contract ourselves. You deal with us for everything.

One, from us. Trash and recycling on the same invoice, and the same again across multiple locations.

Once a week is where many commercial accounts start, with extra days added from there. A busy restaurant or a full apartment block often runs two or three days a week.

Three numbers set the schedule and they only work together: how much waste the site produces, how big the container is, and how often it gets emptied. Settle any two and the third follows, which is why frequency is never quoted on its own.

Being wrong costs money in both directions. Too few pickups and the container overflows, which comes back as overflow charges and bags stacked beside it. Too many and you are paying for a truck to lift a half-empty container. A common find on an invoice is a size and a frequency that fit the business two years ago and were never revisited.

Industry is shorthand for how much a site produces. A restaurant, a grocery or a full apartment block produces far more per square foot than an office, so it fills the same container quicker.

It is only shorthand though. Two restaurants on the same street can sit on different schedules depending on covers, on whether they break their own cardboard down, and on how much of what they throw out is packaging.

Fewer pickups on the same waste is usually the cleanest saving available, because it lowers the bill without changing how the business runs. There are three ways to get there.

• A bigger container. Same waste, fewer lifts. It changes the schedule without changing anything about how the site operates.
• A compactor. It crushes what goes in, so the same footprint holds considerably more and gets collected far less often. On the right site that is the difference between three pickups a week and two. See commercial compactors.
• Separating the cardboard. Cardboard is bulk rather than weight, and it is usually what fills a container fastest. Moving it into its own stream, or baling it so it takes a fraction of the space, pulls the volume out of the container that was setting the schedule. See commercial recycling.

Working out which of the three applies is what the invoice review is for. Send a recent bill and we will look at the container, the frequency and the rate together. See waste audits.

Tell us and we change the container size or the schedule. A common find on an invoice is a size and a frequency that stopped fitting the business a while ago.

Then a bill review is the better route. We read the invoice against your contract, fix what we find, and you can keep your existing hauler.