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The first step to effectively
managing your waste is to find out how much paper, glass, food waste, etc.
is in your company's waste stream. This information is usually collected
by systematically examining the waste that is thrown into your dumpster.
Also known as "dumpster sorting," this process can be an expensive
and time-consuming way to develop a waste profile.
An easier alternative is selecting the
industry that most closely matches your own from the list below. The
resulting profile shows the materials typically generated by the industry
selected, sorted by material type. You also have the option of
sorting the results by percentage (with higher percentage materials
appearing first), or alphabetically. This tool
relies on a database of standard
industries and assumes that similar businesses have similar waste streams. It is a good starting
point for learning what the waste stream of a business like yours might
look like.
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