Creating an effective waste management program goes far beyond simply placing containers and expecting users to know how to sort waste. To help you enhance your client’s janitorial recycling and waste management program, we’ve curated a list of five valuable resources to guide you through the process.
Key strategies like standardizing your program, adding more recycling stations, and reducing contamination are often discussed in the recycling community as ways to boost diversion rates and reduce facility costs. While these are proven methods, implementing them successfully requires careful planning and coordination. This is where you step in.
The experts at Busch Systems have compiled five essential, free resources that will help you design and manage a highly efficient recycling and waste management program for your clients.
If you have additional resources that could further enhance these programs, please share them in the comments. And be sure to bookmark this page for future reference as you continue to improve your recycling and waste management expertise.
1. Handling Recycling and Waste is Hurting Janitors
Before suggesting changes to your client’s recycling and waste program, it is important to have them consider some of the ways in which your changes could benefit all janitorial staff at the facility. This article points out some of the functional issues with many basic containers that have been creating physical challenges for janitorial and maintenance staff. Understanding these issues could help shape your search for the right container in your client’s facility!
2. Janitorial Services and Waste Reduction Strategies
This janitorial company has shared their strategies for waste reduction as well as the benefits of eco-conscious custodial services. They have broken down some successful methods that any janitorial company could implement within their client’s facility to help them reduce waste and improve sustainability efforts.
Although this resource is older than some of the waste audit guides out there, it still holds relevance and provides an extensively detailed guide to waste auditing. This guide breaks down every aspect of a waste audit to give you a clear understanding of the best ways to conduct an audit and read results for your client’s facility. It even provides suggestions for waste reduction planning to help improve results.
4. The Eight Ways to Reduce Waste
This blog is extremely helpful in understanding strategies for reducing waste in all types of facilities. It starts with an overview of establishing a waste reduction plan and breaks it down into 8 simple ways to help you produce the perfect waste reduction plan for a facility.
This website has posted access to free pdf downloads for a waste audit checklist as well as a full template to help you conduct your audits. If your client has asked you to perform waste audits, or if you are looking for ways to improve their waste reduction, check out their sample checklists and download the free versions to use for yourself! If you already have a template, this could also be a good resource to spark some ideas on how to expand on your current waste auditing.
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And there you have it! Plenty of resources to get your journey to sustainable waste management started. We’ll continue to update this page as we see more great information come down the pipe. And again, if you think we’ve missed some more resources, feel free to comment below.
