Frequently Asked Questions
How AllWaste Works
What Is a Waste Consultant?
A waste consultant reads the waste line on your books and rebuilds it so it costs less. You keep your hauler and you keep your contract.
We measure what your site actually produces, right-size the service to match, renegotiate the rate, and look at whether any of the stream can be diverted from landfill. The hauler still bills you directly.
We are paid out of what we save you. If there is nothing to find, there is nothing to pay.
What Is a Waste Broker?
A broker holds your contract, bills you, and takes a margin on the difference. Your invoice comes from the broker rather than from the hauler.
That is not what happens on a consulting engagement. We leave your contract where it is and share the savings instead.
There is a second way to work together. On new service we can contract with the vendor directly, carry the liability ourselves, and bill you one line instead of several. If that is the better fit we will say so, but it is a separate arrangement and you would know which one you were signing.
How Can I Lower My Commercial Waste Bill?
Four ways, roughly in the order we find them.
Right-sizing. Most businesses signed a waste contract once and have renewed it ever since. Volumes changed, the business changed, and the service never did. Container size, pickup frequency and the number of containers all get set once and then never revisited.
Rate negotiation. We renegotiate the rate against what your own contract actually says.
Billing errors. A container billed at a size or frequency you no longer have, or a rate higher than your contract states. Both are common.
Diversion. Cardboard you pay to haul can become a bale you sell. Clean fill does not need to go to a landfill at all.
How Much Does a Waste Audit Cost?
Nothing up front.
You send us your current invoices and your contract if you have one. You sign a letter of authorization, which lets us talk to your vendors on your behalf. That is the only thing you sign before you see numbers, and it commits you to nothing.
If we find nothing, nothing changes and you owe us nothing.
When we do find a reduction, you sign off on the new terms and sign a service agreement with us to share the savings each month. Our share is 50% of the net savings, measured against what you were spending before we got involved. If the savings stop, so does our invoice. Money that comes back as a refund or a credit from past overbilling is shared the same way.
What Is Your Process?
1. You send invoices, and the contract if you have one, and sign the letter of authorization.
2. We read the invoice line by line, against the contract and against what the site actually produces.
3. We come back with what we found and what we would change.
4. You accept or decline each change. Nothing moves without your sign-off.
5. You sign the new terms with your vendor and a service agreement with us to share the savings.
6. From then on every service request and every service problem comes to us. One number for anything waste related.
Do I Have to Change My Waste Provider?
No. Most of the time we work inside the contract and the provider you already have.
Changing providers is one option out of many, and it is only on the table if it is the one that saves you money.
What if I Already Have a Signed Contract?
That is the normal case, not the exception. We work inside active contracts more often than not.
Rate renegotiation, service changes and right-sizing are all available without breaking an agreement.
Are You Going to Cut Back My Pickups?
Only if the numbers say the pickups are not being used.
We calculate service levels from your volume, your seasonal swings, which days you actually fill up, and whether recycling can carry part of the stream. If your service is right-sized already, we will tell you that.
Where Do You Work?
Commercial waste and recycling: Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Illinois. That reaches Dayton, Columbus, Louisville, Lexington and most of southeast Indiana.
Roll-off dumpster rental: a fifty mile radius around Paycor Stadium. Past fifty miles we still deliver, with roughly $100 added.
What Hours Can I Reach You?
7am to 8pm, seven days a week.
Most orders, pickups and swaps run by text. That is how most of the business operates.
Commercial Waste and Recycling
What Is Considered Commercial Waste?
Commercial waste is what a business produces rather than a household. In practice that means:
General trash from offices, retail, restaurants and warehouses.
Cardboard and mixed paper, usually the largest recyclable stream a business has.
Food waste from kitchens.
Construction and demolition debris from a build, a tear-out or a fit-out.
Clean fill, meaning brick, block, rock, gravel and concrete.
Bulky items such as furniture, fixtures and mattresses.
It does not include hazardous waste. Paint, solvents, electronics and batteries have to go elsewhere, and we will tell you where.
What Types of Waste Do You Handle?
For a business the practical split is four streams, and most sites have at least three of them.
General trash on a scheduled route, in a front load or rear load container, a toter or a compactor.
Recycling, most often cardboard, on its own container or mixed-stream.
Construction and demolition debris, in a roll-off, priced by weight.
Clean fill, which goes to a clean fill site rather than a landfill.
Hazardous waste is the one we do not handle. It has to go to a licensed hazardous waste company.
What Can a Business Recycle?
Cardboard is the big one, and it can be worth money rather than costing money. A baler turns cardboard you currently pay to haul into a bale you can sell.
Mixed paper, plastics, metals and glass are commonly collected on a mixed-stream container.
Clean fill, meaning brick, block, rock, gravel and concrete, goes to a clean fill site rather than a landfill. We run it often.
Whether recycling saves you money depends on your volume and how clean the stream is. It is one of the things we look at during a review.
What Cannot Go in a Container?
These have to go elsewhere, and here is where.
Latex paint. Dry it out with sawdust or dirt first, then it goes in normal household garbage.
Oil-based paint, stains and solvents. A hazardous waste company, or Hamilton County’s annual household drop-off.
Electronics, TVs and batteries. The Cincinnati Recycling and Reuse Hub takes all three.
Tires and appliances with freon we will take, priced separately, so mention them when you order.
Mattresses are fine in a container. So are yard waste and brush.
If you are unsure about something, ask before you load it. Sorting it at the landfill costs more than sorting it in the driveway.
Do You Sell and Service Equipment?
Yes, both.
We sell vertical and horizontal cardboard balers, stationary, self-contained, pre-crusher and chute-fed compactors, and compactor containers.
We service and repair roll-off containers from ten through forty yard, trash chutes and the Trash Rocket.
A debris chute gets material down from height straight into the container so nobody carries it down a ladder. It is what makes a multi-storey tear-out or a roofing job move.
Roll-Off Dumpster Rental
How Much Does a Dumpster Rental Cost?
$275 for a 10 or 15 yard, and $499 for a 20, 30 or 40 yard with two tons included. Seven days on site is in every price, then $20 a day. Weight over the included tonnage is four cents a pound.
They are priced by the truck that carries them, not by the yard, which is why a 10 and a 15 cost the same.
Sizes, dimensions and what fits each one are on the dumpster rental page.
Do I Need a Permit for a Dumpster?
Not on your own driveway, and you do not need HOA approval either. Most residential deliveries need nothing at all.
On-street placement is different. Covington and downtown Cincinnati both require a permit, and several other municipalities do too. We can pull it for you, though it usually moves faster when you pull it yourself, because the city deals with the address holder.
We check before we deliver either way. Impound fees on an unpermitted container are serious, and this is the most common reason a delivery gets held up.
How Much Space Do I Need for Delivery?
Three to four car lengths of clear, level ground, with nothing low overhead. A driveway is the usual spot.
You do not need to be there unless cars have to be moved or the access is tight. We do ask you to put wood down where the container lands, to protect the surface.
Some driveways cannot take a roll-off at all, usually because there is not enough room for the truck. Give us the address when you order and we will tell you before it rolls.
Still Have a Question?
Call or text 513-302-2162, 7am to 8pm, seven days a week. Send us the address and what you are throwing out and we will price it. If it is a waste bill you want looked at, send the invoice.
