Implementing a Pay As You Throw program can be politically positive.
 
A recent Wall Street Journal Online poll shows 82% support for the PAYT concept.
 
In our years of experience, no WasteZeroTM municipal partner has ever discontinued its PAYT program. In fact, most wish they had started sooner.

Based on our experience with more than 250 municipal partners, WasteZero PAYT programs provide specific and measurable benefits.  Those benefits include

  • $10 to $20 in savings per resident each year due to diverted landfill costs (savings vary with the cost of landfill tipping fees or incinerator fees)
  • Reduced natural resource depletion
  • Reduced greenhouse gas emissions
  • Reduced energy use
  • Increased opportunity for regional job growth related to recycling and reuse

WasteZero Pay As You Throw programs are quickly implemented and begin generating benefits in a very short time.  On average, our programs only require:

  • 76 days from decision to implementation
  • $0 capital expenditure to implement

In our years of experience, no WasteZero municipal partner has ever discontinued its PAYT program.  In fact, most wish they had started sooner.