How to Choose the Best Waste Management Company?

How to Choose Best Waste Management Company?

Waste management is an essential, but sometimes, underrated aspect of business management. It’s a necessity that businesses must consider, and it’s important for business owners to know what to look for when determining the best rubbish removal provider. Here is a list of questions to consider.

How flexible are their services?

Each business produces a number of waste streams and has specific waste management needs. This includes bin sizes and collection frequencies. Your rubbish removal provider should tailor their solutions to your specific requirements and provide a solution for each stream of waste your business produces. Waste management services should be about convenience, and this is what you should look out for when choosing a provider.

You should also consider how reliable the company is. It’s useful to read online testimonials and reviews to determine this.

How knowledgeable are their staff?

Waste management is a fairly niche area of expertise, so it’s important that you deal with knowledgeable and experienced staff. This will allow you to get most out of your money and have the most effective waste management solution. After all, the competency of staff determines the reputation of a company.

One way to research the staff you’ll be dealing with is to search their LinkedIn profiles. Another is to set up a free consultation, which most providers allow, before signing any contracts.

How affordable are their solutions?

Last year, Victorian waste fees increased, affecting both domestic and commercial rubbish removal providers. Waste management fees can represent a sizeable expense for businesses, so there’s no doubt business owners will shop around for the most affordable option.

It’s the responsibility of the waste management provider to ensure their clients understand their options for cost-effective solutions. They should also be transparent with their clients when discussing how best to tackle Victoria’s waste fee increase and provide prices and the quality of services that clients are happy to pay for.

How much do they care about sustainability?

In a society so environmentally aware, a company’s corporate social responsibility significantly affects its reputation. This is especially relevant for waste management companies, as their work directly affects the environment.

You should ensure that your provider acts ethically and provides you with sustainable solutions that increase your recycling rate and reduce your landfill contribution. The best provider is one that cares about both the environment and the quality of services they offer to their clients.

Nationwide Waste Solutions is a leading waste management company in Australia. With over 15 years experience, we guarantee solutions that consider sustainability, convenience, and affordability. For more information, give us a call on 1300 729 922 or contact us here.

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Turning Australia’s Waste Into Energy

Australians trust that our waste will be disposed of appropriately. Although most don’t understand the nitty gritty behind our waste management solutions, the least we know is that our general and recycled waste is taken care of in an ethical and environmentally friendly manner.

However, one of the world’s most eco-friendly solutions to waste management is still causing debate in Australia. That is, the solution to turn our waste into energy.

But before we dive into this waste-to-energy method, Harry Van Moorst, community activist from the Western Region Environment Centre, stresses that there is a “waste hierarchy” to consider first. According to Moorst, our top two priorities regarding eco-friendly waste management, concerns the general Australian public.

The first is to consciously reduce our waste. Naturally, a reduction in the average Australian’s waste consumption will reduce our overall waste crisis. Waste reduction can be achieved with simple practices such as ditching plastic shopping bags, using a keep cup for your morning coffees, and packing your children’s school lunch in tupperware, rather than cling wrap.

The second priority is to recycle. There is a particular emphasis on knowing how and what to recycle. This includes focusing on clean paper, cardboard, hard plastics, glass and aluminium. It is just as important to understand what can’t be recycled, as it is to understand what can be. For example, materials contaminated by food (such as greasy pizza boxes) cannot be recycled.

The third solution to consider regarding eco-friendly waste management is out of our hands (that is, the hands of the general Australian public). Instead, it’s in the hands of our government. Moorst reasons that “our waste is better off going to a waste-to-energy plant than to landfill.”

Rather than piling up in landfill, a waste-to-energy solution involves burning the waste in incineration systems as a fuel to generate energy.

What can we learn from other countries?

Turning Waste Into Energy

Sweden, one of the world’s leading nations in effective waste disposal, first adopted this solution in the 1940s. With over 34 waste-to-energy plants currently in operation, Sweden diverts approximately four million tonnes of waste from landfill each year. Two million of that is their own waste, and the other two million is imported from neighbouring countries, such as the United Kingdom, that pay Sweden to get rid of their rubbish.

Considering Australia’s waste crisis, especially after China’s recent waste ban, it is reasonable to question why a country like Sweden would want to take another country’s waste.

Sweden is able to recycle approximately half their waste and burn 49% for energy, which generates electricity for a majority of the country. In addition to diverting almost all landfill waste and providing sustainable energy solutions to their residents, Sweden also makes about $100 million a year from this trade with other countries.

While I’m not suggesting Australia should take responsibility for other country’s rubbish, it’s important to consider the sustainable benefits of turning a liability, such as waste, into an asset, such as energy.

So, why is this causing debate in Australia?

Most Australian’s argue that the solution reminds them of backyard incinerators that were commonly used in the 1960s. What once encouraged families and neighbours to socialise, backyard incinerators were banned over 40 years ago due their contribution to pollution and poor air quality. Most of those against the waste-to-energy solution are concerned about their health.

However, our government wouldn’t consider reintroducing the practice of burning our rubbish if it had such a negative affect today. It’s important to consider that times have changed and more advanced technology and solutions have been discovered that contribute to this renewed method to convert rubbish from landfill. It’s also important to consider that this global method of using incinerators is not the same as it was in the 60s. It’s not just a backyard solution anymore, and it’s now handled by professionals in the waste management and environment industries.

What is Australia’s progress so far?

Despite debates, Australia is slowly introducing this waste management method and currently operating about 30 waste-to-energy projects, most of which are confined to small incinerators.

Australia’s first large scale project of the sort is the Kwinana Waste to Energy facility, located just outside Perth. A $668 million renewable energy project, the facility is expected to officially open by the end of 2021.

The plant will divert up to 400,000 tonnes of waste from landfill each year, which is approximately one quarter of Perth’s post recycling rubbish. It is also expected to convert the waste into enough energy to power 50,000 homes and contribute to the Australian Federal Government’s national target of diverting 80% of our waste from landfill by 2030.

While there are a number of eco-friendly ways that we, as the general Australian public, can dispose of our waste (such as recycling), a waste-to-energy solution is a part of the bigger picture for Australia to consider. According to Federal Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg, waste to energy has to be part of the solution to dispose of our rubbish ethically and reduce landfill.


Nationwide Waste Solutions is your trusted waste management company. We prioritise finding the most sustainable solution to tackle your waste and recycling management needs. For more information about our services, call us on 1300 729 922 or contact us here.

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