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WasteZero manages more Municipal Trash Metering programs than any other company in the United States. Our system is an advanced, turn-key form of Pay-As-You-Throw, designed with ease of implementation in mind that has communities achieving some of the highest waste diversion and recycling rates in the nation.
Trash Metering programs are often associated with cities and towns with curbside waste and recycling pick up. But many smaller communities with landfill drop-off sites are also benefitting from WasteZero Trash Metering. Nationwide, more than 15 percent of Trash Metering communities use drop-off locations, where residents are charged by-the-unit for solid waste disposal.
WasteZero provides cities of all sizes and demographics a simple cost saving solution for reducing waste and increasing recycling. With the WasteZero System, residents pay only for what they discard, creating a natural incentive to recycle more and discard less. To throw away their trash at a designated drop-off location, households use official municipal trash metering bags that they purchase from area retailers, just as with curbside programs.
After implementing WasteZero Trash Metering, a community's drop-off system remains essentially the same. The WasteZero System simply asks residents to do what hundreds of other communities nationwide require their residents to do: pay by-the-bag for the amount of trash they throw away.
Drop-off Trash Metering communities generate less than half the waste of communities that leave the cost of trash in the tax base or in a fixed fee. A 2010 study reported by the EPA found that drop-off Trash Metering communities had an even higher rate of success than curbside Trash Metering communities. According to the study, the average amount of waste disposed of in a drop-off Trash Metering community was 422 pounds per person per year; the average in a non-Trash Metering community was 890 pounds per person per year - or 53 percent less waste generation in the Trash Metering communities.
The WasteZero System has been voted in by a rapidly growing number of municipalities - some 300 communities in the United States - that are, as a result, diverting hundreds of thousands of tons of municipal solid waste per year. In addition to reducing natural resource depletion, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy use, WasteZero municipalities are also benefiting financially - from tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue and savings.
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| >In a demanding environment, municipalities need a steady and reliable revenue stream. Our revenue guarantee is just one of the WasteZero program elements that make it as achievable as possible for municipalities to implement the WasteZero System. |
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