Waste Management Helps Businesses Turn Waste into Opportunity

Waste Management is changing the game when it comes to zero-waste-to-landfill. Waste Management is easily becoming a frontrunner in the environmental sustainability movement.

It’s much bigger than just trash collection. Waste Management is essentially a one-stop shop, providing all inclusive, sustainable disposal solutions to some of the world’s leading businesses and industries. The company’s sustainability services merge consulting and operational expertise to help businesses move forward on their path toward sustainable success.

From working alongside Whole Foods to develop a composting solution that turns food waste into fertilizer, to creating comprehensive recycling programs for colleges and universities, Waste Management seizes every opportunity to turn waste into a resource that benefits our communities and the environment.

The business case for zero waste

Waste Management sustainability services is proof that sustainability pays. Since 2003, the company has delivered more than 157 million in direct cost-savings to customers. The company works across all industries to turn waste, a traditional cost center, into solutions that benefit businesses, their customers and the environment.

The Waste Management team works with companies to strategize and implement sustainability initiatives that reduce cost, improve efficiencies and reduce waste.

To be truly effective, Waste Management goes on-site. Project managers provide onsite and comprehensive programs that offer significant environmental, economic and social returns. Their services range from helping businesses reach zero-waste-to-landfill, to helping companies really understand what happens to their products and packaging throughout every point in the supply chain and tell their sustainability story by tracking business, operational and environmental metrics.

By looking at points of intervention throughout the manufacturing, distribution and recycling processes, Waste Management consultants are able to develop diversion strategies that not only have a positive impact on the planet, but also save money.

“We work right alongside a company’s employees to identify ways of diverting waste upstream,” Tom Carpenter, director of growth and development for Waste Management Sustainability Services, told TriplePundit. “Whether it’s saving on operational costs, finding beneficial reuse items or working with manufacturers to close the loop, our consultants are able to find concrete ways to drive savings for customers.”

The company, which originally found its footing in the automotive industry, helps General Motors generate $1 billion in byproducts each year. “It’s all about finding value in every product that is used,” Carpenter explained. “This translates to the bottom-line dollar that we’ve helped companies save every year.”