9221 Harrison Ave, Cleves, OH
Based in Cincinnati, serving Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Illinois
Mixed-stream recycling containers on a weekly route, on the same account as your trash. Moving cardboard and paper out of general waste is usually the single biggest change on a commercial invoice.
General waste goes to landfill and you pay a disposal rate on it. Recyclable material does not, and it is charged differently.
So when cardboard and paper are sitting in your general waste container, you are paying the landfill rate to throw away the one thing that did not need to go there. Pulling it into a separate stream changes what you are charged on, and it slows down how fast the general container fills, which means fewer pickups on top.
For a business taking deliveries every week, cardboard is usually most of the volume. That is where the money is.
Cardboard. The big one for retail, restaurants, warehouses and anywhere taking regular deliveries.
Mixed paper. Office paper, packaging, files.
Plastics and mixed-stream recycling. Collected together in one container rather than sorted on site by your staff.
If you produce a material that is not on this list, ask. Some are worth separating and some are not, and it depends on volume and on what a hauler in your area will take.
Loose cardboard is mostly air. It fills a container fast, which is what drives the pickup frequency you are being billed for.
A baler crushes it into a dense bale. That cuts the volume, and above a certain amount of cardboard a bale becomes something you can sell rather than something you pay to remove.
There is a volume below which a baler does not pay for itself and a separate cardboard container is the better answer. Tell us roughly how much cardboard you go through and we will tell you which side of that line you are on.
Recycling runs on the same kind of container as your trash and on the same account. Front-load containers behind the building for most businesses, carts and toters where space is tight.
Weekly route as standard, and we change the schedule if the volume changes rather than leaving you on a frequency that stopped fitting.
You are adding a container, so there is a line for it. What usually happens alongside is that the general waste container fills more slowly and needs fewer pickups, and the material in the recycling container is not charged at the landfill rate. Whether it nets out cheaper depends on how much recyclable material you actually produce, which is what we work out before you commit.
No. Mixed-stream means cardboard, paper and plastics go in the same container and get sorted after collection.
Then it is worth looking at a baler. Above a certain volume the bales become sellable rather than a cost. Below it, a separate cardboard container is the cheaper answer.
Yes. Same account, same invoice, and one number to call about either.
A load with too much general waste in it can be rejected and charged as trash. If that is happening we will tell you where it is coming from and what to change, whether that is signage, container placement or a different collection point.
Tell us what your business produces and how much of it. We will tell you what is worth separating and what it changes on the invoice.