’Tis the Season to be Environmentally Friendly!
As we gather around the Christmas tree or yule log this holiday season, we’re creating more than love and laughter; we’re also generating about 25% more waste between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.
As we make memories, we’ll also end up with some 2.9 billion tons of trash. While we feed our friends and family, we’ll also throw out 25% of the food we buy.
Plus, when it comes to waste and recycling operations, we know there’s often a struggle to communicate weather delays, holiday-based changes, and special seasonal collections.
But it doesn’t have to be this way! Some 80% of our holiday waste can actually be reused, repurposed, or recycled. And we can help.
Routeware presents The 12 Days of Trash, our holiday themed help resource, aimed at solving the problem that is holiday waste.
After all, to make your community members better recyclers, public works departments and private fleet owners need to make recycling simple for them. With Routeware, you can make communication smooth and information access easy.
Our suite of education, calendar, and customer portal (for bulky and special pickups, like Christmas Trees) tools are a perfect fit for combating excess holiday waste. Reduce contamination, reduce illegal dumping, reduce phone calls, and simplify recycling and waste disposal for everyone – with the click of a button.
Here are seven tips to help you utilize digital communication tools to combat excessive waste so you and your team can go back to enjoying the season:
- Deck out your website or app to better highlight seasonal updates
- Analytics, baby
- Spread the word
- Keep in touch
- Put a wrap on top trash offenders
- Sprinkle some holiday magic — and information about where to put it after the holiday
- Remind people about zero-waste options
For more detail, and to find out the rest of the 20 Ways to Improve Your Recycling Communications, click the link above.
Lastly, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the challenges present in managing snow operations. Each winter season, municipalities around the world commit significant time and resources to the safe and efficient removal of snow – and, since the integration of RUBICONSmartCity into Routeware this year, our team is well equipped to help your winter operations crew plow the streets efficiently, effectively and safely.
We hope everyone stays safe, happy, and warm this winter season.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Routeware family!
P.S. Want to view all Holiday Waste assets, all in one place, even after the season is over? Simply head on over to our Holiday Waste page to stay in the loop.
