With increasing pressures on local authorities and private waste operators, the need for cost savings and achieving greater efficiencies is very much a key consideration.
Pete Dickson, Commercial Director at Impact Environmental Group (a leading operator in the provision of waste and recycling products and service solutions), offers his insight on budget optimisation throughout the waste and recycling management process.
Choose key features for container longevity
When procuring containers, as well as that all-important saving to the bottom line with an attractive lead-in unit price, do pay attention to the robustness of the container, alongside its readiness to refurbish.
Features such as a thick container base for additional corrosion resistance and robustness, rodent-proof drain plug, enhanced castor brackets to minimise stress points, highly durable castors and internal bash plates for reinforcement come as standard in the Taylor Mark IV CONTINENTAL, and will extend the life of your stock considerably.
Procuring a mixed stock of old & newly refurbished
For those that need to procure a larger quantity of containers, yet are faced with tight budget restrictions, another option is purchasing a mixed supply of new and newly refurbished - a trend we are increasingly seeing with clients.
In fact, our UK Container Maintenance (UKCM) business has recently seen a considerable hike in demand for second-hand, fully-refurbished metal waste and recycling containers, including four-wheeled metal containers, FELs (front-end loaders), RELs (rear-end loaders), skips and roll-on roll-off (RORO) containers.
Another option is to consider container rentals, negating what can be a large upfront capital cost in favour of a more manageable amount spread over the rental term.
Giving containers a new life
The circular economy, and our obligation to recycle and reuse is very familiar to us all in the waste industry, with organisations now choosing to refurbish their containers and thereby improving their carbon footprint, in addition to achieving significant cost savings.
Refurbishment brings old, and often unwanted, waste containers back to life instead of them going to scrap. These fully refurbished options aid reduced budgets, without compromising the quality or integrity of the container. The refurbishment process also opens up the opportunity to deliver various enhancements, such as asset longevity.
Container refurbishment can take place either at a specialist facility such as at our factory in Cheshire or onsite at your premises by a mobile team of skilled technicians.
Tech-enabled efficiencies
Our latest generation of compactors and balers incorporates state-of-the-art technology for vastly enhanced operational and environmental benefits, allowing critical information from each asset to be shared with service engineers and customers, which will reduce the full life cost of machines and improve uptime.
The cost savings come from engineers not having to attend the site to diagnose issues, as this is done via remote monitoring, and is proving very popular with clients of our Capital Compactors and Balers business, which is the UK’s leading manufacturer of waste and recycling compactors and balers.
These latest machines can also run economy strokes, reducing motor run time using less electricity.
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