The Holiday Waste season is over, but its effects remain. Not only is waste a year-round issue, but the 25% increase of household waste between Thanksgiving Day (USA) and New Year’s Day isn\u2019t gone – it\u2019s just coming back again next year.<\/p>\n
The extra 2.9 BILLION tons of waste – per week – that piled up in landfills during this season isn\u2019t disappearing overnight. There\u2019s many ways to reduce this waste once it winds up in the landfill, but the best way just might be preventing it from arriving in the landfill in the first place.<\/p>\n
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Get Started<\/a><\/p>\n 80% of holiday waste can be reused, re-purposed, or recycled, and in our experience, people want to do the right thing – they want to recycle properly.<\/p>\n However, when they don\u2019t know where to place items, and they can\u2019t easily find the information, they often end up \u2018wishcycling<\/a>\u2019 \u2013 which can be dangerous.<\/p>\n We like to preach the three C\u2019s: to reduce Contamination, make sure you Communicate<\/a> before you Collect.<\/p>\n This applies not only to items such as lights, tinsel, and other holiday \u2018tanglers\u2019 that will wrap around the machinery at the recycling center, creating work stoppages, equipment failure, and potential harm to employees.<\/p>\n It also applies to schedule confusion and changes. Weather delays due to snow, ice or wind; seasonal Interruptions due to public holidays; and special collections for things not usually collected year round all contribute to missed collections, complaints, and illegal dumping.<\/p>\n To make your community better recyclers, you need to make recycling simple for them. Make communication, information access, and pick-up requests easy with Routeware.<\/p>\n Our suite of education<\/a>, calendar<\/a>, and service requests<\/a> (for bulky and special pickups, like Christmas Trees) tools are here to help you combat holiday waste. Reduce contamination, reduce illegal dumping, reduce phone calls, and simplify recycling & waste disposal for everyone \u2013 with the click of a button<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the spirit of education, we put together a 12 Days of Trash landing page that lays out why Holiday Waste is such a problem, as well as how we solve it together.<\/p>\n We know some of your citizens recycled, re-used, and reduced fantastically this holiday season. We also know others did not \u2013 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 Our goal is to reduce waste not just during the pesky holiday season, but year round. Join us in our efforts to simplify waste management.<\/p>\n Routeware gives your customers the knowledge and ability to recycle the right materials with more frequency, reducing wishcycling while improving environmental impact<\/p>\n Let’s Get More Material Recycled<\/p>\nThe Holiday Waste Wrap-Up<\/h3>\n
How Do We Move Forwards?<\/h3>\n
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ICYMI, here\u2019s our previous Holiday Waste related blogs from the past two months:<\/h3>\n\n