The Ultimate Resource for Sustainable Waste Solutions
The EPA is spending $4 million to remove nearly 4 million pounds of abandoned CRT glass from a Yuma food‑bank warehouse, highlighting how “ghost” e‑waste vendors leave generators liable and why strict vendor vetting is essential.
Big changes are coming to the EPA’s e-Manifest system. Here’s why they matter—and how to stay compliant without stress.
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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.
Choosing the right waste vendor is more important than ever in 2025. With increasing environmental regulations, sustainability goals, and cost pressures, businesses must partner with vendors who align with their operational needs and green initiatives. Whether you’re looking to reduce landfill waste, improve compliance, or optimize costs, selecting a reliable waste partner can make all the...
As we navigate through 2024, the critical importance of waste management continues to gain attention globally. With the world grappling with the challenges of sustainable waste disposal and recycling, staying updated with the latest advancements and insights has never been more crucial. To aid in this journey, we’ve curated an updated list of the top waste management blogs for 2024. These...
The world of waste management is complex and often misunderstood. But with the right tools and knowledge, it can become a crucial component of a sustainable future. This is the perspective shared by Melissa Puchalla, VP of Sustainability Solutions at Wastebits, in a recent podcast episode titled “Waste Disposal Demystified.” Hosted by Dunja Jovanovic and published on May 24, 2023, the...
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...
Wastebits Insights provides unprecedented access into waste industry data with an easy-to-use interface. While many users are able to accomplish everything they need to research or build out their sales pipelines from within the application itself, some users have expressed the desire to export contact information and waste data for use within their CRM software such as Salesforce, or to build...
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...
We are proud to announce a new partnership with Circon Environmental, an industry leader in sustainable, innovative waste management solutions.
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.
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.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning might seem strange partners to waste collection, recycling and management. But as we’ll see, AI for waste is a growing sector. There are companies setting up smart bins, smart dumps and smart cities, aimed at cutting the amount of trash we actually throw away and improving our currently abysmal recycling rates.
Wastebits Insights is the premier waste industry sales prospecting tool. It’s built from the ground up specifically for waste industry sales, and can save users hours of time and hundreds of dollars in dead-end leads and wasted effort.
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.
Cradle-to-grave waste management is a long-term waste management process designed to reduce the amount of waste generated and ensure that hazardous waste is stored, transported and disposed of appropriately.
The EU is moving its recycling and waste treatment targets beyond waste management. Its goal is to integrate waste streams back into production, as far as possible eliminating the concept of waste altogether and creating a circular economy.
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 Ultimate Resource for Sustainable Waste Solutions