How Can An Indoor Compactor Help Your Bottom Line?

GTS 2000 Indoor Compactor

The ever-increasing cost of waste disposal is frustrating to those who own and operate a restaurant. Trash bills inexplicably rise from month-to-month, haulers charge unreasonable fees, and it seems as though every month, the check you write to the waste hauler is larger than the month before. The good news is that you can take control of these costs by making some basic changes in how you deal with waste. One option is employing the use of a GTS 2000 indoor trash compactor.

Indoor compactors result in fewer weekly pick-ups.

Your trash hauler should only come to your restaurant when you need them—when the dumpster is full. Every time you see their big truck out in your parking lot, they are charging you. Indoor compactors have the power to compress up to twenty individual bags of trash into a single brick, which can be transported to the dumpster with ease. This creates up to twenty times more space in your dumpster, and in turn, leads to fewer pickups. In some cases, an operator can realize savings of up to 60% on waste expenses by simply compacting their garbage before throwing it in the dumpster.

Compactors result in reduced parking lot disruption.

Having the trash picked up can cause business disruptions. Garbage trucks are large, noisy, dirty, and get in the way of everything. They have been known to block incoming and outgoing traffic and block the drive-thru. They can drive off customers and frustrate employees by taking up parking spaces while they work. A compactor will reduce the overall number of trash pick-ups and, in turn, reduce the potential for a cluttered lot or lost business in the midst of a lunch or dinner rush.

Compactors reduce the opportunity for work related injury.

Winter weather creates a slip and fall hazard for employees. Ice, snow, and rain can cause even the most careful worker to go down in the parking lot. Eventually, employees must venture out into the harsh weather to take out the garbage. When they do, there is always the risk of a work related injury. Compactors reduce the number of outdoor trips because the trash stays contained within the compactor until it is full. Instead of eight or ten trips, employees may only need to exit the building once or twice. A compactor will keep your employees inside, where it is safe and dry.

An Indoor Compactor is Just One Option: You Have Many

At Global Trash Solutions, these options are our business.  We provide compactors, supplies, recycling, baling, resale, and brokering for the restaurant industry at more than 2500 locations. We are a full-service, single point consulting service dedicated to reducing your trash expenses. In most cases, the compactors we supply to restaurants pay for themselves within the first two years.  Combined with our consulting services, our customers can realize an overall saving 65% on their initial waste disposal cost.

Please give yourself and your business the benefit of reduced costs. Call now for a free consultation at (866) 760-8184 or fill out our form online. 

Contact Global Trash Solutions Today!

How Can My Company Cut Costs on Waste Service in Colorado?

• Do you own a business in a major metropolitan area of Colorado such as Denver or Boulder?
• Are you located in a more rural market in Western Colorado where you feel your options for waste and recycling service are limited? 
• Have you become frustrated with the outcome of the relationship with your current hauling company? 
• Were you led to believe you would be charged a single flat monthly price for quality service, and instead seen a series of price increases and miscellaneous surcharges appear on your invoices like rude, uninvited dinner guests on your doorstep? 
• Has your quality of service declined, or do you simply expect more from the capital you are spending every month on waste and recycling service? 
• Have you wondered why dumping your trash has become so expensive, or sought ways to lower cost through recycling?

Waste and recycling service has become an albatross to many business owners in Colorado, just as it has in practically every other state in the union. The reasons are not very different than those in other states where business owners find themselves overpaying for waste hauling services. Many business owners feel like they are playing a game of whack-a-mole (only these moles are gluttonous, and devour profits). The moment they trim one area of their waste and recycling expenses, whether by changing companies, or renewing with their current hauler under the premise that they will pay less for service, another aspect of this cost invariably rises. You may have seen increases in recycling fees, extra trash charges because the lid does not close one morning, and the garbage truck driver gets artistic and decides to take a picture of your dumpster, or any number of 3-letter acronyms followed by the word “fee”. Many hauling companies billing practices have become so complex that even their own employees have a difficult time explaining the bills!

Global Trash Solutions (GTS) has developed cost savings strategies for over 3,000 businesses around the US, and has been helping businesses in Colorado cut hauling costs for over two years. No matter what challenges your business may face with respect to waste and recycling services, GTS can help! Please contact us today at (866) 760-8194 so we can help you reduce your costs.        

Which Commercial Trash Compactor Is Best for My Company?

• Do you manage a business that uses trash compactors or balers to reduce the volume of waste on site, or bale recyclable commodities so they can be palletized and sold? 
• Did you buy or inherit a business that had an old trash compactor on site that you think of as a nothing more than a foul-smelling eyesore with no practical application? 
• Are you aware of the cost benefit to compacting waste? 
• Are you considering purchasing a commercial trash compactor because you are tired of paying several hundred or thousand dollars monthly for multiple dumpsters that occupy a substantial amount of space on your property? 
• Are you considering a commercial trash compactor for another reason, such as aesthetics, security, or loss prevention, but do not know where to start when considering what kind of compactor to buy?

There are about as many kinds of compactors available on the market as there are types of businesses who can use them, so it can be difficult for business owners to know where to look or what kind of compactor to consider purchasing. Global Trash Solutions (GTS) is a great source for information about what compactor will best suit your business’ needs. GTS also understands how difficult and frustrating it can be to deal with some of the companies out there that pick up waste and recyclables. We happily provide insight into the waste industry and information on how to get the best deal for service on whichever compactor is best for your business. At GTS, we pride ourselves on offering comprehensive solutions for businesses of all shapes and sizes!

At grocery stores, restaurants, casinos, resorts, and other facilities that produce large volumes of wet waste, GTS would likely recommend one of the many self-contained “GTS-SC” models that we offer, or for smaller applications like fast food restaurants with limited space, we might recommend our GTS X-press Pack series or an indoor model such as the GTS 2000. For transfer stations, recycling facilities, and distribution centers, we usually recommend horizontal balers with a conveyer system, or auto-tie balers that can produce multiple bales of all types of recyclable plastic and cardboard per hour. For recyclers with smaller operations, we offer a full line of vertical balers. We even offer drum crushers, pre-crushers (for pallets) and residential compactors for high-rise buildings and residential communities. If you would like to consult with us about what commercial compactor will best suit your needs and save you the most money, please contact us today at (866) 760-8194.  

Waste Compactors Save Fast Food Restaurants Money

• Do you own one or more fast-food restaurants or fast-casual dining establishments? 
• Have you noticed that the waste disposal expenses at your restaurants are a substantial cost to you each month? 
• Have your costs risen over the previous months and years? 
• Have you examined different ways to mitigate these costs for your business, but found this to be a daunting, if not impossible task? 
• Are you aware that each month thousands of quick-service restaurants and fast-casual dining establishments such as McDonald’s, Burger King, Panera Bread, Chick-Fil-A, and many others save money by compacting?

Waste disposal is a rising cost for practically all fast-food and fast-casual establishments. Whether sales are rising or decreasing at the restaurants, waste disposal seems to be an ever-increasing line item on the P&L statements. What some multi-unit chain store operators do not realize is that most waste haulers’ standard rate structures are based on the volume of trash collected in cubic yards. For instance, an 8 cubic yard dumpster serviced 5 times weekly may cost a restaurant $1,000.00 monthly. However, if the restaurant begins compacting their trash using an indoor or outdoor compactor (whichever is more efficient given their trash composition and space limitations) it could reduce the monthly expense to $400.00 or less. That is because they effectively cut the number of lifts and volume of trash from 40 yards per week to 16 – a 60% reduction!

Global Trash Solutions (GTS) realized this years ago, and has been spreading the good news to fast food restaurant and fast-casual restaurant owners ever since. In most cases, the compactors GTS supplies to its customers pays for itself in less than two years, and offers more than $10,000.00 annually in waste cost reduction. GTS not only supplies equipment, they facilitate the removal of old equipment and use their negotiation skills to ensure their clients always pay the best possible rate for service for the life of the business. Please contact them today for a free quote or consultation at (866) 760-8194.

How Can a Trash Compactor Save my Business Money?

• Are you curious as to why you see trash compactors outside shopping malls, residential complexes, or restaurants?
• Would you like to save money on waste and recycling services at your business?
• Have you heard from other business owners that trash compactors have saved them space and money, but uncertain about how your business might benefit from such equipment?

The economics behind purchasing or renting a dumpster compactor vary widely in nature, and there are several reasons why. In some markets, haulers charge their base rates by volume (per cubic yard) of trash produced, and a trash compactor will greatly reduce costs to the businesses these haulers service. 

For example, some trash compactors compact on a 3:1 or 4:1 ratio, depending on the model of the compactor and density of the trash inside. If your business can reduce a 6 yard dumpster going to 3 times per week to a 6 yard dumpster going 1 time per week, a compactor will obviously lower your waste expenses. Unfortunately, some haulers try to charge a multiplier if a compactor is installed, claiming that there is the same amount of trash going into the dumpster, it is just not going as often. Compacted trash is obviously more dense and heavy. However, the hauler stands to benefit from your trash being compacted because they spend less money on fuel and payroll when they have to come pick up the trash less frequently. Some haulers claim the cost of disposal goes up because of the weight of the trash, but many haulers own their own landfills or grossly exaggerate the cost per ton for disposal.

If you want to find out more about how a trash compactor can save your business money, please contact Global Trash Solutions (GTS) at (866) 760-8194. GTS specializes in helping businesses save money on waste and recycling in many different ways.

Does My Waste Hauler’s Driver Suffer from “Lazy Driver Syndrome?”

• Do you own a business whose location or chain of locations generate a large volume of waste? 
• Do you often fill up your dumpster and have staff calling you panicked, worried that the health department is going to come shut you down? 
• Do you pay for strange charges for waste management such as “extra yardage fees” or “snapshot charges?” Are your corral doors left open after the hauler comes, leaving your dumpster(s), which you would prefer to keep veiled in secrecy, naked and exposed to customers and clients?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, your hauler may have drivers who suffer from what is commonly referred to in the waste industry as “LDS” or “lazy driver syndrome.” Symptoms of LDS include trash left on the floor of the dumpster area after the driver has emptied the containers, open corral gates that drivers are too lazy to get out of their truck and close after emptying your trash dumpsters, and, in severe cases, broken pylons or corral gates due to the driver closing the corral gate by driving his truck slowly into it, so as not to leave the foul-smelling comfort of his garbage truck. These symptoms are coupled with intervals of sporadic creative photography, during which sufferers of LDS take multiple pictures of your dumpsters when the lids do not fully close and send them to you with a letter stating  that you will be charged X amount of dollars on your next invoice for “extra yardage” or a “snapshot fee.” These letters often encourage you to increase service permanently for what may have simply been a busy weekend.

     If you think your garbage truck driver may have LDS, and you would like to help them so your parking lot will become more aesthetically pleasing and your waste expenses low, please contact Global Trash Solutions (GTS.) GTS is certified in the diagnosis and treatment of LDS. We can help your business save money on waste and recycling, and improve the quality of your service without changing your trash hauler. Please call us today at (866) 760-8194 for a comprehensive analysis of your spending and service, and guaranteed financial savings.

How Can My Company Save on Trash in Boulder, Colorado?

• Do you own a restaurant, property management company, construction company, manufacturing facility, or other commercial property in the Boulder, CO area?
• Have you ever taken the time to closely review your past and present spending on waste removal, recycling service, organics recycling, and dumpster compactor rental?
• Have you weighed the options available to you?
• Do you know how much you were paying one year ago versus what you are paying today?
• Are you curious about some of the miscellaneous surcharges that have made appearances on your monthly statements? 
• Are you aware of the millions of dollars in sustainability grant money available to businesses in Colorado for recycling equipment such as cardboard balers?
• Have you tried to reign in your waste and recycling costs in the past, only to see them continually rise as time passes?

Colorado is one of the more progressive states as it relates to sustainability practices and green initiatives. Businesses in Colorado are incentivized to divert their waste from landfills. However, negotiating waste disposal and recycling costs is a challenge that is difficult for most businesses to surmount by themselves. For this reason, many companies like McDonald’s are outsourcing their waste and recycling management to experts in the field such as Global Trash Solutions (GTS.)

GTS is ahead of the curve when it comes to cost containment for trash and recycling service, dumpster rentals, and compaction and recycling equipment sales. GTS knows what grants are available to help your business in Colorado become more eco-friendly. GTS can guide you through the proper channels to help you market recyclable commodities and uncover resale value in items your business is currently throwing away. Almost without exception, hauling companies in Colorado recommend recycling, but suggest throwing items like loose cardboard in a bin which they charge to pick up, and then resell themselves. For a free consultation on how GTS can help your business save money, contact us today at (866) 760-8194.