Successful manufacturers and distributors have one thing in common: they focus on core competencies and don’t let distractions get in the way. But the table-stakes in today’s business climate include increased expectations for “performance” imposed by internal and external stakeholders.
Customers, employees, investors, and the community in which your facility operates all demand financial performance as well as environmental responsibility.
Cumberland Recycling can help reach performance goals by partnering with facilities to manage high-volume process wastes, discards, and byproducts for their highest and best use, minimizing costs and landfill, maximizing value and diversion, helping ensure a successful today and a sustainable tomorrow.
“Trust the Process.”
Managing “process waste” (waste resource) resulting from an organization’s day-to-day production requires a tailored approach. It must be customized to fit an operation’s requirements and limitations—on space, personnel, and budgets. Cumberland Recycling has been implementing and managing waste and recycling programs long enough to understand that one size does not fit all. We design and implement an efficient and cost-effective commercial recycling system to support your plant’s sustainability journey.
Delivering recycling management programs that ensure “highest and best use” requires constant research and market knowledge to help ensure that we’re engaging those buyers that value your operations’ discard or byproduct as a feedstock in their production.
In managing food waste, Cumberland Recycling uses the EPA’s food waste hierarchy to deliver the highest and best use value for our clients. Knowing where to go with each product and considering things like transportation, logistics, and regional markets is how we ensure that our clients leverage the full value of their discards and byproducts.
“The Truth Will Set You Free”
Your operation’s byproducts and discards (waste) is a commodity and it has value. For a waste management company, that value is the space it takes up in their landfill (and what they can charge for the privilege of burying it there). We come from the perspective that when your discards and waste (resources) can be directed to an organization which uses that same material to create something new, it has a very different and positive value. Knowing what this is and finding the organizations that can use this, is how we unlock that value to ensure our clients maximize the return on their waste resources.
“It’s not a sprint. It’s a marathon.”
Hitting both financial and environmental goals is a balance. We get that. We can help you understand the opportunity costs (and benefits) when implementing changes in the operation’s internal processes. Ensuring that this knowledge is known and shared will not only help meet annual budgets and objectives this year but will also create a foundation for long-term financial and environmental success.
2020, Cumberland Recycling Highlights:
