| In the United States manufacturing accounts for a | | | | expect the waste hauler, who is trying to grow their |
| large percentage of the waste produced. This is not a | | | | business, to come up with a way for us to use them |
| criticism of manufacturing; it is a fact. In order to | | | | less? It is not going to happen! |
| produce the products that we need, manufacturers | | | | The good news is that an answer has been |
| inherently produce large amounts of waste. As a | | | | developed -- not by the hauler, but rather by the |
| result, manufacturing produces the largest percentage | | | | professional research and development within the |
| of the waste haulers profits. This is also a fact. | | | | manufacturing industry and a distribution company right |
| Manufacturers are in a constant battle to comply with | | | | here in the United States who distribute a high |
| county, state and federal guidelines and, at the same | | | | efficiency waste handling machine called an Enviro |
| time, attempt to keep the impact of waste hauling | | | | Waste Systems 7700 Pulverizer. In addition, they have |
| costs to their bottom line as low as possible. In recent | | | | developed a program that gives manufactures an |
| years the best solution has been to be paid a | | | | opportunity to use their machine to use at NO cost |
| percentage of your hauling cost back for recyclables. | | | | AND pays them for their waste. So instead of the |
| But this is a less than satisfactory solution. The current | | | | costs of waste hauling having a negative impact on |
| recycling process, as good as it is for the environment | | | | the manufacturer's bottom line and the environment, |
| and a must-do first step, limits what can be recycled. | | | | manufacturers can have a positive effect on their |
| Manufacturers on average can only separate ten | | | | bottom line profits and the environment by |
| percent of their waste stream to recyclables. This is | | | | implementing this win-win program. You may not have |
| not the silver bullet to cost reduction that the | | | | heard of this company or its program because the |
| manufacturers have been seeking. So questions need | | | | haulers, you remember, the people we asked to help |
| to be asked: What about the cost of hauling the ninety | | | | with this problem, have done every thing in their power |
| percent of manufacturer's waste that can not be | | | | to keep this from you. I guess we shouldn't blame |
| recycled? How do we reduce the cost and | | | | them for wanting to protect their massive profits from |
| environmental impact of waste? These have been the | | | | the biggest threat they have ever faced. |
| questions on the minds of manufacturers and | | | | But the fact still remains that we, the manufacturing |
| environmentalists for years. | | | | industry, have had to answer the questions ourselves |
| Manufacturers have been asking the waste haulers | | | | because the waste haulers would not. I personally |
| for the answers. I truly believe that we have been | | | | have a lot more trust in the ingenuity and can-do |
| asking these questions in vain. The waste haulers are | | | | attitude of the manufacturing industry to solve this and |
| a business like any other - they need to make profits | | | | many other challenges that face them rather than |
| from their business of hauling our waste. If, as a | | | | waiting for the waste haulers to help us. I recently |
| manufacturer, you were asked by your customers to | | | | watched a commercial for a well known car |
| develop a way for them to use less of your product, | | | | manufacturer that focused on the DUH principle. That |
| how motivated would you be to develop that for | | | | seems to fit quite well here. After all, isn't it better to be |
| them? What would be the implications to your | | | | paid for waste rather than wasting your money paying |
| business and your profits? So, why then do we | | | | for its removal? DUH! |