{"id":8130,"date":"2024-01-17T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/blog\/12-days-of-trash-the-last-4-days\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:49:08","slug":"12-days-of-trash-the-last-4-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/blog\/12-days-of-trash-the-last-4-days\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Days of Trash &#8211; The Last 4 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to the 12 Days of Trash: the final showdown between communication and contamination.<\/p>\n<p>Holiday season has long since wrapped up, but the waste (and joy!) it brings us still lingers.<\/p>\n<p>The extra 2.9 billion tons of waste in landfills per week has stopped. What hasn\u2019t is the need for proper disposal of problematic items.<\/p>\n<p>We know some of your citizens recycled, re-used, and reduced fantastically this holiday season. We also know others did not &#8211; and not necessarily through fault of their own, but due to the lack of easily accessible information needed to make the proper choices.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve covered much of how to educate citizens on proper disposal, and we\u2019ll continue to do so below.<\/p>\n<p>First, we wanted to discuss the problem of changing collection days and times due to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weather delays caused by snow, ice, or wind<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seasonal Interruptions due to public holidays<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/solutions\/customer-operations\/self-service-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Collections<\/a> for items not usually collected year round<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How can you best communicate these changes to your citizens, ensuring everyone is on the same page, reducing confusion and angry phone calls in the process?<\/p>\n<p>Watch the two minute video below, and check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/solutions\/customer-operations\/customer-education-outreach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mobile App web page<\/a>, to learn more:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Collection Calendar - What Does It Do?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z5PC0GAU3sI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<h4>12 Days of Trash &#8211; The Last 4 Days<\/h4>\n<p>Alright! Our final four items include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tissue Paper<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ribbons, Bows &amp; Gift Tags (Christmas Bows, Gift Ribbon, Plastic Ribbon)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gift bags: Cellophane, Foil or Plasticized (Mixed-Material Bags, Present Bag, Bath &amp; Body Works Bag)\u00a0&amp; Gift Cards<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christmas Tree (Natural) &amp; Christmas Tree (Artificial)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>By this point, you&#8217;re probably asking yourself: what would The <a style=\"text-align: var(--text-align); letter-spacing: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saskatoon.ca\/services-residents\/waste-recycling\/collection-calendar#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan<\/a> do?<\/p>\n<p>See how they handle the education, communication, and disposal of this week\u2019s items utilizing their <a href=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/solutions\/customer-operations\/customer-education-outreach\/\">Waste Wizard<\/a> tool:<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/12-days-of-trash-tissue-paper-818x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Tissue Paper\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/12-days-of-trash-ribbon.jpg\" alt=\"Ribbons, Bows &amp; Gift Tags (Christmas Bows, Gift Ribbon, Plastic Ribbon)\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/12-days-of-trash-gift-cards.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/12-days-of-trash-cellophane-bags.jpg\" alt=\"Gift bags: Cellophane, Foil or Plasticized (Mixed-Material Bags, Present Bag, Bath &amp; Body Works Bag)\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/12-days-of-trash-fake-tree.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Tree (Artificial)\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/12-days-of-trash-real-tree.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Tree (Natural)\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>As Saskatoon says: \u201cIf you can\u2019t reduce waste, then divert it at least.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Keep Up With Holiday Waste<\/h4>\n<p>For more on how to effectively tackle Holiday Waste, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.routeware.com\/20-ways-to-improve-your-recycling-communications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 Ways to Improve Your Recycling Communication.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>In summary, recycling can be confusing all year round, but we definitely see new and unusual items during the holidays causing extra confusion and contamination, during a time when people\u2019s minds are usually anywhere other than proper waste disposal.<\/p>\n<p>Add on the extra confusion from holidays and weather impacting scheduled pickups, and it can all be a little much.<\/p>\n<p>To Ho-Ho-Halt holiday waste contamination, help your citizens make better choices with our purpose-built Community tools, designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/solutions\/customer-operations\/customer-education-outreach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">curb contamination<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/routeware.com\/solutions\/customer-operations\/customer-education-outreach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">streamline communication<\/a>, and protect the planet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to the 12 Days of Trash: the final showdown between communication and contamination. 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