Sustainable waste management practices have often been viewed as being incompatible with business growth and success. Many industries preferred to take a brush-it-under-the-carpet approach in the interests of shareholder value. Sustainable practices were toyed with, but perhaps not wholly embraced.
“The cheapest guy wins”
Waste management contracts have often been little more than a race to the bottom line – whoever will take on the contract for the lowest price wins. Unfortunately, this rarely results in the most sustainable and environmentally-responsible approach.
Waste management or waste processing?
Those with the technical expertise in best-practice waste management didn’t really have an incentive to see it implemented, because they worked for the companies where the business model is based on processing waste by volume. What was referred to as “waste management” was really just waste processing.
So how do things get better?
Times are changing. There is a new breed of sustainability manager looking to break this cycle. They recognise that sustainable waste management is not an exercise in box ticking, it is a genuine opportunity to recover valuable resources from commercial and industrial waste that benefit the long-term future of the planet, often reducing overheads and improving efficiency in the process.
Taking a different approach to waste
This is where StopWaste can help. We have the specialist expertise to manage a wide range of commercial and industrial waste, maximising recovery, reducing costs and prevent waste from going to landfill that could have a contribution to make elsewhere