WASTE MANAGEMENT
Keeping your business clean
Ed Pigg, Managing Director of Axil Integrated Services, explains how waste management innovations can save money and drive sustainable progress in the cleaning industry.
There’s no understating the transformation the cleaning industry has undergone over the past few years. The call for greater rigour in cleaning regimes during the pandemic put a spotlight on the crucial role of the industry, but it also piled on the pressure.
Now, with the rise in the cost of doing business, organisations continue to struggle maintaining their bottom line and upholding sustainability needs simultaneously. Keeping up with rising demands and shrinking margins is no easy task.
Businesses, especially those in the cleaning industry, are looking for solutions to unlock revenue and maintain sustainable momentum. It may come as a surprise that some solutions have an unexpected source – in your waste.
Waste management innovations are not only helping the cleaning industry manage rising waste costs, but are unlocking new efficiencies and revenue streams that can provide much needed financial support. It’s about rethinking your relationship with waste, and discovering the small changes that can make a big difference for your business success.
The plastics problem
When it comes to waste, the cleaning industry has unique challenges to deal with. The cleaning agents and products used have a uniquely high proportion of plastic packaging, which, with the plastics packaging tax coming into force this April, are becoming more costly to dispose of.
With the OECD predicting that the production of plastic is set to almost triple to 1.2bn tonnes by 2060, it’s more important than ever to reduce plastic waste.
Waste management specialists can work to understand where your waste is produced and how best to process it. For instance, businesses can implement practices such as colour-coded bins and signage to reduce the amount of waste produced in the first place.
It was through housekeeping changes like these, and removing single-use cutlery, that we could help appliance manufacturer Whirlpool reduce its plastic waste by a huge
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80%. This had a powerful impact on its bottom line, with the rebates unlocked through improved sortation and segregation of plastic waste generating a £200k per annum revenue increase.
The value of efficiency
Doing business efficiently in today’s world means making the most of every hour. Scaling up small optimisations on people’s time and effort will create savings that really make a difference. An example of this comes from something as innocuous as bin liners. Investment in continuous bin liners removes the need to manually replace bags, cutting the bin changing time in half.
On the small scale, this will save an employee a few minutes on their day-to-day tasks, but when scaled up across an entire organisation, this can unlock energy and effort that can be better focused elsewhere. It’s how we helped engine manufacturer Cummins save 4,000 hours of labour, unlocking £75,000 of additional resource.
Knowledge is power when it comes to understanding how to optimise your bottom line, and that doesn’t just come from understanding how your employees are working. Having more oversight of the waste your company produces can help a specialist identify new sources of rebates and revenue.
For example, at Birmingham Wholesale Market, we installed a Weight & Trace machine to understand where waste was being produced. It enabled more accurate invoicing of waste produced by tenants in the market, resulting in increased revenue for the business.
These kinds of investments often go overlooked as businesses look to cut their losses, but keeping your waste a priority won’t threaten your bottom line – it can actually support it.
So, as the cleaning industry looks set to face another year of increased demand and tough economic challenges, now’s the time to rethink the potential of your waste. Trust in the small changes that will make the difference needed to shore up your bottom line for the year ahead.
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