The Ultimate Resource for Sustainable Waste Solutions
The day-to-day reality of managing waste in working facilities. This category covers how waste moves from point of generation to staging to pickup—containers, labeling habits, internal handoffs, dock coordination, and the small breakdowns that create big delays. If it happens on the floor, in the yard, or at the dock, it belongs here.
The digital age evolves and seeps into almost every nook and cranny of our daily lives. The term “digital transformation” has been thrown around a lot, and it’s not just another buzzword – it represents a profound shift in how businesses operate and deliver value to customers. It’s more than just swapping out old IT systems; it involves completely reimagining...
The waste management industry continuously evolves, with new regulations, technologies, and best practices emerging regularly. As a waste management professional, staying up-to-date on industry regulations and compliance requirements is crucial to ensure your company operates responsibly and avoids potential penalties. This comprehensive guide will explore various ways waste management...
Hello, waste and sustainability enthusiasts! We’re excited to announce the launch of the Waste Wise Podcast by Wastebits! Over the years, our blog at has been a valuable resource for those interested in waste management, recycling, and sustainability. Now, we’re taking our expertise and passion for these topics to the next level with the Waste Wise Podcast. The Waste Wise Podcast is a...
We’re thrilled to announce that wastebits.com has been redesigned for an improved customer experience! Our goal was to create a more straightforward, faster, and more intuitive website. We believe that with this redesign, we have achieved our goal, and you will be delighted with the new look and feel of wastebits.com.
It’s hard to believe that ten years ago Wastebits started as an idea aboard a bus traveling between Las Vegas, NV, and Austin, TX. A company called StartupBus has been gathering entrepreneurs and software engineers for years from various cities in North America and driving them to the SXSW Conference in Austin. Along the way they form small groups and build a pitch for a startup company, to...
Landfills are carefully engineered disposal facilities, designed to combat the problems you can expect if you just throw trash into a hole in the ground. So rather than dumps, which are just designated areas to leave garbage, landfills involve inbuilt solutions to leaching, leakage, off-gassing, and more.
New York’s state legislature is weighing a new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law, one of a group of similar proposals in state Houses and Senates nationwide that aim to make producers responsible for recycling the packaging and other waste associated with their products.
Electronic waste, also known as e-waste, is waste electronic items — electronic devices from DVD players to laptops to iPods that are no longer wanted, whether they still work or not. Everything from TVs to VCRs, LAN cables to routers, smartphones to flash disks, become e-waste when they’re discarded.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the global economy in an unprecedented way. The waste and recycling industry—while deemed an essential service and therefore not shut down—has experienced its own set of negative effects, both long and short-term.
The concept of big data has developed concern in some corners due to negative press over a range of issues, including potential data breaches, the misuse of information by collectors of data and overall privacy issues. This has resulted in a reluctance of many customers to provide valuable information to companies and/or public sector entities.
The Ultimate Resource for Sustainable Waste Solutions