Learn essential waste compliance best practices to avoid regulatory penalties, improve sustainability, and streamline waste management processes.
Waste Compliance Best Practices: Ensuring Regulatory Success
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Optimizing Industrial Waste Management: Save Money While Staying Compliant
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Optimize your industrial waste management with cost-saving strategies while ensuring regulatory compliance. Learn how Wastebits’ digital solutions can streamline your waste processes and reduce expenses.
The Future of Waste Tracking Software: AI, Automation, and Sustainability in 2025
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The waste management landscape is evolving with AI, automation, and sustainability innovations transforming waste tracking software from a compliance tool into a strategic asset. These technologies enhance data accuracy, streamline compliance, and support proactive waste reduction, helping businesses reduce costs and improve sustainability while meeting environmental goals and regulatory...
How Waste Disposal Companies Can Find Generators in 2025
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Discover the best ways for waste disposal companies to find waste generators in 2025. Learn key strategies, industry trends, and tools to grow your business.
Top 5 Mistakes in Regulated Waste Disposal (And How to Fix Them)
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Avoid costly fines and compliance risks! Discover the top 5 mistakes in regulated waste disposal and how to fix them to ensure safety, efficiency, and legal compliance.
Navigating the EPA’s 2025 S-Code Updates for Hazardous Waste Storage and Transfer
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a major update to Management Method Codes for hazardous waste. These changes aim to improve data precision and reporting clarity while replacing the widely used H141 code. Here’s what you need to know about this critical update and how Wastebits can help your organization stay ahead of the curve. Understanding the Changes New S...
Navigating the EPA’s Final Rule: How Wastebits Enhances e-Manifest Compliance
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made significant strides in modernizing hazardous waste management with the implementation of the Final Rule: Integrating e-Manifest with Exports and Other Manifest-Related Reports, PCB Manifest Amendments, and Technical Corrections (Third Rule). This comprehensive rule, effective from June 28, 2024, aims to enhance the electronic tracking and...
A Deep Dive into Hazardous Waste: Best Practices for Brokers
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Hazardous waste management stands as a critical pillar in environmental protection and public health preservation. Within this intricate ecosystem, hazardous waste brokers play a pivotal role, serving as the linchpins connecting waste generators with disposal facilities. As stewards of responsible waste management, brokers shoulder the weighty responsibility of ensuring that hazardous materials...
Celebrating a Milestone: 1 Million E-Manifests Submitted Through Wastebits
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We are thrilled to announce a significant milestone in the journey of Wastebits and environmental sustainability: the submission of 1 million e-manifests to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) via our platform. This achievement is not just a number; it represents a monumental step forward in the hazardous waste management industry, showcasing the power of technology and innovation in...
Compliance Checklist for Facility Managers: Navigating Regulated Medical Waste Regulations
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In the realm of healthcare facility management, compliance with regulations governing regulated medical waste (RMW) stands as a critical priority. As custodians of public health and environmental stewardship, facility managers shoulder the responsibility of navigating the complex web of regulations aimed at ensuring the safe and proper handling, storage, transportation, and disposal of RMW. RMW...
Navigating Regulations: A Waste Broker’s Guide to Compliance
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In the realm of waste management, compliance with regulations is not just a legal requirement but a fundamental aspect of ethical and responsible business practice. For waste brokers, whose operations hinge on the efficient and lawful movement of waste materials, understanding and adhering to regulatory frameworks is paramount. Welcome to our guide, where we delve into the intricate world of...
Adapting to the 2024 EPA e-Manifest Fees with Wastebits’ Hybrid Integration
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In the ever-evolving landscape of environmental regulations, staying informed and adapting to changes is crucial for businesses dealing with hazardous waste. One such change on the horizon is the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new user fees for the e-Manifest system, set to take effect from October 1, 2023. These changes will significantly impact the costs associated with tracking...
Efficient Disaster Management: Wastebits is Ready to Power the Ohio Train Derailment Cleanup
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On February 10th, 2023, a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, requiring a significant cleanup effort. The incident highlighted the importance of efficient disaster management, as authorities worked around the clock to contain the spill and protect the environment and public health. In such events, every minute counts, and the right tools and resources can...
Released: Hybrid e-Manifests & EPA/RCRA Integration
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In an effort to improve hazardous waste compliance and streamline the e-Manifest process, Wastebits has announced a new Hybrid e-Manifest option. This system unlocks a new level of integration with the EPA’s RCRAinfo system, providing businesses with a more efficient way to manage their hazardous waste—reducing fees required for every manifest. This can save businesses hundreds of thousands...
Released: Enhanced Notification Views
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For Wastebits waste profiling software users, notifications are an indispensable way to quickly view the latest activity from customers and members of their team. For smaller companies, simply listing the missed notifications is manageable. Still, the notifications can pile up quite quickly and be challenging to sort through and manage for some of our larger customers.
Wastebits Turns 10: A Look Back
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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...
What You Need to Know About Signing Waste Manifests
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Waste manifests are required by RCRA, and they follow waste shipments from creation to disposal. Filling them out accurately is crucial for compliance, and mis-filled waste manifests are the number one cause of RCRA citations. So getting this right matters a lot.
How to Find Accurate Contact Information, Data and Firmographics for Waste Companies
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Finding contact information on prospects can be tough. Sending personalized messaging to the right person to get your foot in the door, at a company that fits your ideal customer profiles (ICPs)? Easier said than done. But Wastebits Insights can make it not only possible, but surprisingly easy, to build lists based on the industry’s most up-to-date database. And you’ll find contact information...
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 101
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The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the main federal law that governs solid and hazardous waste disposal in the USA. It was passed in 1976, as pollution from improper disposal of hazardous waste and the lack of a federal framework to ensure safe disposal became increasingly problematic.
Hazardous Waste Disposal – Where Does It Go and Who Handles It?
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‘Hazardous waste’ calls to mind glowing tubs of nuclear or biological residues. But in fact, every household and most businesses will generate some hazardous waste. This could be used lightbulbs or old batteries, residues from auto engine maintenance — or large quantities of sludges left over from complex chemical manufacturing, and everything in between. It all needs to be disposed of...