Waste Management

Waste management concerning dumpsters is not exactly a cutting-edge news story that attracts national or local news attention. People just take dumpsters for granted. A company buys or leases a dumpster, fills it up, and then when it’s full they call to have the trash hauled away.It’s not exactly rocket science. But as this article will delineate, a local company, Smash-It, based in Miami,  is revolutionizing the on-site dumpster business. Local Miami businesses are finding that they can significantly cut their waste management by having their dumpsters compacted.Let’s delve into how Smash-It can save a local business a significant amount of money.

Significantly reduce the volume of the trash in your dumpsters.

Smash-It has revolutionary Smash-It machines that significantly reduce the volume in your trash. A trash container may be filled for example with a load full of pallets that are no longer functional or be filled with scrap lumber. However, while the total volume of waste may be large, a significant part of the structure of wood pallets or scrap lumber is pure air. There is a lot of air in the wood itself, and if you picture a pallet in your head, it’s quite easy to imagine how your dumpster is actually filled up with the surrounding space of a pallet. You are lucky if you get 20 dry pallets into a dumpster before it’s completely full. With one visit from a Smash-It truck, all of that empty space can be pulverized so that instead of throwing 20 pallets away before you call to have your dumpster trash hauled away. With plain dry wood, you could possibly reduce your total trash by up to 80 percent. Granted, no smash-it service can guarantee you 80 percent across the board, but even if some of your trash can only be reduced by 20 percent, you’ll save a significant amount of money.

Reduce the number of loads

Commercial waste companies typically charge by a set number to haul away your trash, or by the cubic yard, or a combination of the two. At one pickup per week, most companies are looking at a minimum of around $650, and if a company needs two pickups a week, the costs for that second pickup are not appreciably cheaper. With Smash-It, depending upon a companies needs, instead of one pickup a week or 4 per month, they may possibly reduce their total amount of pickups to one every other week. Obviously, it depends upon a companies needs, but it’s easy to see with Smash-It, how you’ll obviously need significantly fewer loads to clear your dumpsters out.

More savings

One of the ways that Smash-It can save you money is simply in needing fewer dumpsters. A 30-yard dumpster may cost a company $2,000 each, or even more if the dumpster is larger. Even if you rent, which most smaller companies do. According to a national dumpster renting service, the average cost to rent a 30-yard dumpster in the Dade County and Broward County areas costs from $550 to $650 per week, which can significantly add up. If you need to purchase or rent one less dumpster, the savings are notable.

Reduced carbon emissions

Everyone, including your customers, are paying attention to how you handle carbon emissions. The effects of global warming have already been felt in South Florida, with increased hurricanes, stronger rainstorms, and unseasonably warm weather. Companies have a responsibility to the community to help eliminate carbon emissions, and people do take notice of those who don’t help. Unfortunately, the trucks to haul waste are big contributors to carbon emissions, and until the day comes when electric rather than gas or diesel trucks are common, having to call a waste company to pick up a load contributes significantly to local carbon emissions. The formula is simplicity itself. Fewer loads equal fewer carbon emissions from the trucks that haul the loads.

Eliminate injuries related to trash management.

Many companies have found that trying to manage their trash is often a full-time job for one or two people. Every so often one or more employees jumps into the dumpster and attempts to pulverize the trash by hand. Not only is this quite inefficient, but more than a few companies have found that an employee, trying to hand-pulverize the trash, winds up getting injured. Sometimes, if they are lucky, the employee is only out for a few days, but sometimes the injuries can be extensive. And really, do you want to risk an employee’s injury by having them physically jump into a dumpster to make more room available?

Call Smash-It Service Miami today at 305.908.3839 to have them come to your site to demonstrate a demo of our services. Not only will you likely be impressed as to how easy we make it to manage your waste, but we’ll show you absolute proof of how we save many local companies money.

Like it or not, waste management costs tend to be going up and up, and no matter how you try to reduce your trash expenses it just seems you are paying more and more. Is there a solution? Yes, and it’s called Smash It. If you are in Broward County or Dade County, you can save up to a minimum of 20 percent 80 and up to a full 80 percent disposing of your container waste.

So how exactly can Smash-It service reduce your waste expenses?

The vast majority of waste servicing companies charge in one of two different ways.

#1 By the number of haul-offs

A typical waste services haul in Florida may be as little as $350 to as much as $800. So the fewer trips your waste management hauling system has to make, the more that you save. But the plain fact is that a great deal of trash is merely wasted space. Say you have a dumpster full of broken and damaged wooden pallets. Overall, they do not weigh too much, but those pallets take up a lot of space in your dumpster quickly. With Smash-It Service Miami, we send a relatively low carbon truck to your site, and the trucks are equipped with special smash tools in order to crush those pallets into taking perhaps 20 percent of the dumpster space they took before crushing. As a consequence, a company that tends to fill their dumpsters up fast, for example, a construction company, can perhaps save up to three hauling expenses a week. And that’s serious money that can well be used elsewhere.

#2 By weight

The other means of charging is by the ton. You might think that since you are being charged by the ton, not by the trip, that your trash expenses are limited. But just as a dumpster filled with pallets takes up a lot of space, so there is a great deal of air within every object within your dumpster. By crushing all of your waste into sawdust or other biodegradables, you not only save money but your staff has to spend significantly less time managing space in your dumpsters.

A proven technology

One thing that potential customers ask about is whether Smash-It Miami is some kind of pie in the sky, new age environmental dream. And the answer is clearly no. Smash-IT has been in business since 2011, and its specially designed smash-it vehicles have been offering companies significant savings for many years. But don’t take our word for it. Smash-IT is happy to bring one of their vehicles to your operational site and provide an actual demonstration of how it works. And as part of their demonstration, the company will bring plenty of real-world statistics as to how your neighboring Florida companies have saved thousands per year on their waste using the companies technology. Whether you are in business in manufacturing, construction, medical, logistics or run waste management for a municipality, the company can save you money.

Saving the environment

For many companies, it’s not enough to save money on their waste services, important as saving money can be. But the words out that climate change and lowering CO2 emissions is vitally important, particularly in Florida. Most scientists and environmental experts believe that tropical storms are getting worse and worse in Florida and that rising temperatures will cause more inland flooding, the destruction of vital coral reefs, and an acceleration of the number of very unpleasant days. Most companies are on board to eliminate their CO2 creation as long as it doesn’t affect their bottom line but with a Smash it service, it’s a win/win situation. Companies can both save money and simultaneously be a positive force toward protecting the environment. And don’t think that consumers do not notice. With the rise of social media, in particular, up to 87 percent of consumers are looking for ways to be eco-friendly and sustainable, with up to 83 percent of people participating in recycling. And customers tend to reward environmentally-friendly businesses with their patronage. So again, with Smash It services, it’s a win/win situation with consumers as well. And the word does get out about your contribution to a more sustainable environment.

Safety and time

Another advantage of a Smash It service is saving not only time but the safety of your employees. Many employees have been injured by claiming into trash dumpsters trying to compact a dumpster with their feet. In addition, with Smash It, your trash is regularly compacted for you so that your employees spend a minimal amount of time concentrating on your waste.

The bottom line

There are many advantages to a smash-it service, particularly financial, but also safety-wise, and being environmentally conscious. You owe it yourself to get a free company demonstration by calling them at 305.908.3839.