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Our full-service approach and nearly twenty years in the municipal waste reduction business - not to mention our industry leading results, ensure that our customers will be provided with services and products of the greatest quality and value available.
WasteZero offers comprehensive, turn-key solutions for Trash Metering that include:
- CUSTOM MUNICIPAL TRASH METERING BAGS. WasteZero is the nation's leading manufacturer of municipal trash metering bags. Using state-of-the-art technology in extrusion, printing, and converting we manufacture the world's highest quality trash bags for Trash Metering programs. All of our trash bag solutions are manufactured in our U.S. factories. Rely on our team of municipal trash metering experts to help you choose the right options - size, color, drawstring or tie, weight, recyclable content - for your specific Trash Metering system. And our in-house creative department has nearly two decades of experience providing professional custom printing and artwork for Trash Metering bags.
- WAREHOUSING AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT. With our network of warehouse partners across the U.S., WasteZero will guarantee the security of your municipal trash metering bags at the most central location for your community. For warehouse services, WasteZero manages all daily operational requirements as your single point of contact. And of course we'll also bar-code manage your inventory and confirm shipments to ensure both security and up to the minute inventory data.
- DISTRIBUTION. WasteZero provides full service distribution of municipal trash metering bags to each participating retail outlet in your municipality. Our state-of-the-art computer system tracks each case of trash metering bags, both inbound and outbound, from receiving to each shipment's final destination. With WasteZero®, your shipments will be handled by courteous, knowledgeable personnel and supported by the latest technology, equipment and a modern fleet.
- ACCOUNTING AND BOOKEEPING SERVICES. WasteZero's industry-leading catalog of turn-key solutions includes accounts payable, billing processes, record-keeping, and other back-office support services by our accounting department professionals who've been in the Trash Metering business for nearly 20 years. When you partner with WasteZero, you instantly have access to all of our back-office services, including payables invoices, billing, W2's, packing slips, delivery receipts, purchase orders, pick lists, and other types of document management and accounting services that will help ensure a smooth-running Trash Metering program.
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About Trash Metering |
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| Trash Metering systems, also known as pay-as-you-throw, user pay, unit-based pricing, and SMART (Save Money and Reduce Trash), charge households a rate based on how much waste they present for collection. Variations of this simple concept - akin to paying a water or electricity bill - have been embraced by about 7,100 municipalities in the United States, and have led to the diversion of some 6.5 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) per year that would otherwise have been landfilled or incinerated. Trash Metering programs are available to about 25% of the US population and about 26% of communities in the US - including 30% of the largest cities in the US. |
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| In more than 300 communities nationwide, the WasteZero System has dramatically impacted residential waste diversion. A 2008 analysis of all WasteZero communities found that the WasteZero System decreased residential MSW by an average 43 percent in weight. A recent study by the US EPA of all Trash Metering municipalities shows that about one-third of diverted waste is diverted directly to recycling, about one-third is diverted to composting, and one-third is "source reduced" (buying in bulk, reduced packaging, etc.). |
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