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Minimising your waste footprint requires you to look at waste management from multiple angles. You need to consider not only the waste you generate but the impact of collection and transport. To manage these different factors, you need the right tools.

Baler machines play an outsized role in increasing the positive environmental impact of your recycling and waste management program. Here are some of the opportunities a waste baler can open up for your business.

Baler Machines Bring You into the Circular Economy

For years, diversion was the goal of most waste management programs. However, companies increasingly see they can go much further; they can eliminate waste by participating in the circular economy.

Waste balers are important tools for sending more materials back for reuse. Tyre balers, in particular, help send tyres back to manufacturers and away to third-parties who transform the rubber into new products, thus reducing the reliance on natural materials.

Glass is another example of a highly-recyclable material that also belongs in the circular economy. Proper recycling of all glass can avoid 925,000 tonnes of waste each year and it is incredibly easy to recycle glass panels and transform them into glass bottles or even back into sand.

Waste Balers Reduce Waste Collection Vehicle Movements

When considering the environmental impact of your waste management program, you need to go beyond identifying recyclable materials and setting up systems for sorting and removing them. Waste transportation comes with costs that range from machinery to labour to the cost of fuel.

Once you pare back your waste to only what’s needed, you can go further to minimise impact through waste baling by reducing the number of trips required to dispose of it.

When you run materials like cardboard through a cardboard baler, you also maximise the available space in a vehicle, making it easier for one truck to carry more materials with less wasted space and reduced fuel consumption.

Balers Help Manage Your Customers’ Recycling Waste

Environment and waste management is an obligation for businesses, and you have programs and tools available to help you meet your program requirements. Your customers, however, have less access. Some businesses, like national supermarket chains, are empowering their customers (and encouraging regular, repeat business) by helping them manage their consumer recycling with tools like plastic balers.

With the help of a recycling baler, you can collect more recyclable materials that might have otherwise ended up in the landfill and manage those materials with no problem. And helping consumers better manage their waste won’t just improve your environmental impact – it can also open up new revenue streams, improve customer retention, and reduce your own costs.

Are you ready to take your recycling and waste management plan and grow its potential? Get in touch with LSM’s waste management experts to learn how we can partner with your business to strengthen your waste program.