Rating Your Recycling Effectiveness

Taking the Waste Audit can set you on a path to recycling success.

Taking Mid America Paper Recycling’s free Waste Audit Survey can be used to assess your recycling operation, review the indirect costs associated with it, and reach your sustainability goals. By auditing your recycling program, Mid America Paper Recycling can determine what your recycling operation is doing well and where improvements are needed.

In August, Mid America Paper Recycling reviewed the results of several Waste Audit Survey responses gathered from 64 manufacturing firms. Over 56% of the respondents feel their recycling effectiveness is only halfway to where they would like it to be and more than 93% believe they still have some ways to go in delivering the recycling effectiveness they are after.

Q7: Your company’s recycling effectiveness (your overall percentage to have zero waste)

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“We can use the results of waste audit surveys like these to develop a custom recycling plan, which presents the value of a company’s waste streams,” explains Mid America Paper Recycling President Paul Pirkle. “Companies that have completed our Waste Audit Survey give us the opportunity to visit and tour their facility to validate the findings of the survey.”

Working with Mid America Paper Recycling on a Waste Audit provides businesses with recycling tips they might not think of and an array of services, such as:

The development of a strategic, efficient recycling plan based on continuous improvement methods
A partnership, advice, and counseling on zero-waste initiatives
Providing ways to reduce indirect waste disposal costs and maximize revenue contributions
Providing paper mill-direct insights that will pay the most for your paper waste
Offering smooth, transparent plan execution with regular reporting and communication
Generating analysis, recommendations, and training on equipment needs
Coordinating organizational, logistics, volume, equipment/labor, financial and service goals, transforming your waste stream into a value stream

“As a fourth-generation, family-owned company, Mid America Paper Recycling can help increase recycling productivity and effectiveness in an operation, turning its waste streams into revenue,” Pirkle continues. “We can help advise staff to increase recycling efficiency with a program that effectively benchmarks, monitors and upgrades their recycling operations continuously, create more company awareness of the recycling objectives, identify where the waste is generated, establish key collection procedures and set goals that will improve their waste streams revenue contribution to the business,” Pirkle says.

“By conducting an Audit and visiting their plant, we show them how to recognize high-quality waste materials and manage the materials to generate revenue. We can also determine if certain types of equipment would facilitate their recycling operation.”

These are just a few of the benefits Mid America Paper Recycling’s Waste Audit can offer. To assess and upgrade your recycling operation, take our quick, free Waste Audit Survey. Visit https://www.midamericapaper.com/waste-reduction-audit.

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