How to Find the Right Commercial Trash Hauler

By Kenzo Kawasaki

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Having your company’s trash picked up shouldn’t be such a big deal.  You hire a service. They send a truck to empty your dumpster from time to time.  What’s the big deal?  The big deal is that unless you know the ins and outs of the trash hauling business, you could wind up paying through the nose to get your trash hauled off.  Why?  That’s because unless you want to pay to have half-empty loads hauled, or worse, you want your parking lot to be awash in blowing trash, you have to know a thing or two about the ways in which the industry works.  Then you have to make sure you contract with a hauler that is trustworthy, prompt and flexible.

All about Balers

By Kenzo Kawasaki

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While my company doesn’t sell balers, we do make the controls and hydraulic power unit for them.  But since balers can make a huge difference in the amount of material recycled by a business, I thought I’d take the time this week to discuss them.

Whether you realize it or not, you’ve seen a baler if you’ve ever venture behind a Wynn-Dixie supermarket or Lowes.  A vertical baler is the huge machine you see parked near the back of the store. Used at most grocery stores and big box stores like Walmart or Home Depot the reason these behemoth machines are there is to help large retailers deal with the large quantity of corrugated cardboard these businesses produce.  Instead of letting all the packing material eat up a lot of useful space, big retailers bale the cardboard into 800-1700 lbs bales that not only take up a lot less space, but these bricks can be sold to mills that will in turn press the material into new packaging.  Such operations typically install a 60x40-inch closed-end baler that costs upward of $10,000 to purchase, while high-capacity open-end extrusion balers can cost $100,000 or more.  The reason that big box stores spend this kind of money is because it typically only takes them less than a year to recoup their investment.

Can Your Trash Go Green?

By Kenzo Kawasaki

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Discarding and hauling trash is a dirty business, no doubt about it.  That being said, what many  That’s right, it’s possible for your trash to go green.  Best of all it’s neither complicated or costly to do so.  All it takes are a few tips that can point you in the right direction so you can green up while doing your part to save the planet. 

businesses don’t know is that there are several ways they can green up their refuse.

Commercial Compactor Safety Tips

By Kenzo Kawasaki

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So, you decided to buy a commercial trash compactor to help you save money and the environment  Bravo!  Your foresight will help save you time and money as well as keeping your property cleaner and pest-free.  Now let’s take the time to cover what you need to do to make sure your employees are out of harm’s way in the operation of your compactor. 
by requiring fewer trips to the local landfill.

Talking Trash - Why buy a commercial compactor?

By Kenzo Kawasaki

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Let’s say you own a business.   It can be anything from a retail establishment to a warehouse distribution business, to a restaurant. You have to pay the waste management/waste hauling company every time they come by to haul away your garbage. But your business ebbs and flows, which means sometimes your dumpster is overflowing and sometimes it’s only half full. Like it or not, you’re going to have to pay the same amount either way. You know that compactors can help reduce the number of pickups and in the end it can save you money.  But what you might not know is that with an internet connection and a few smart sensors, you can save even more money by scheduling a pickup only when your dumpster is actually full. How much can this save your business from a trash hauling standpoint; 10% 20%? 30%? With this kind of technology, you could cut your trash bill by as much as half.

The Trouble with Trash

By Kenzo Kawasaki

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Nobody likes trash.  It’s messy.  It’s smelly.  It can also be quite expensive to deal with if you own a business that produces it in quantity.  If you’re lucky, your landlord provides a dumpster and pays to have the trash hauled away.  If not, then the onus is on you to deal with who’s going to haul away your trash for you.  The blog below will explain some of the factors that you need to be aware if you’re forced to take out the trash.