What is an Itemised Waste Management System?
Weightron Admin|25 April, 2024
Within waste management, itemised waste management systems represent one of the most pioneering and beneficial technologies that the sector has witnessed in recent years.
A core component of effective and responsible business management is establishing a waste management system. However, by utilising the latest technologies and implementing an itemised waste management system as part of a structured programme, businesses (across numerous sectors) can precisely control and actively reduce their waste.
With itemised waste management systems in place, businesses across the UK can bring more transparency to their processes. Then, this enables them to manage, collect, transport and process waste with more precision, efficiency and sustainability.
In this handy, comprehensive guide to waste management systems, we have outlined what they are, what they are used for, and the critical benefits that they offer.
What is an itemised waste management system?
Firstly, more broadly a waste management system is the process that an organisation follows to dispose of its waste. This includes the way that it recycles and reuses its waste, as well as any waste prevention methods that are in place.
A waste management system requires organisations to implement different strategies that intuitively manage waste, and work to consistently reduce the volume of waste that they send to landfill over time.
Itemised waste management (iWM) systems take this approach further. iWM systems are designed to make waste management far more efficient and accurate, supporting businesses in their waste management initiatives, and enabling them to achieve their targets far faster and easier.
iWM systems are an intelligent tool, which enables businesses to easily input key data about each bin of waste that they create.
Users can upload all of the relevant data (including the weight of the bin and its contents) to the tool, which then stores this information in the cloud.
The system then collates all of this information, enabling users to gain clear and comprehensive data insights about their business waste.
How do you use an itemised waste management system?
- Waste is collected, and taken to the bin store.
- Once a waste bin is full, it is placed on the low profile platform scale.
- The operator goes through the options on the touch screen, to record the relevant information about the waste bin. This includes the type of waste, and whether any contaminated waste is in the bin.
- The data is collected by the system.
- The waste bins are electronically tagged, and the data is sent to the terminal directly, before being automatically uploaded to the cloud software.
- All of the recorded data is accessible to both customers and facilities managers. The system generates detailed data, which highlights the business’ waste generation, and other key trends.
- The information can even be downloaded as a PDF, which can be used for everything from more accurate invoicing, to devising more detailed waste controls.
Who needs to use an itemised waste management system?
Over the last few years, business waste management systems have changed extensively.
This is because, previously, many businesses were able to get away with simply throwing all their waste into a skip, which went straight to landfill.
Thankfully, times have changed dramatically, and these days are long gone. Today, companies are expected to work towards high sustainability standards as a given. In fact, for the companies that continue to maintain poor recycling habits (without any efforts to improve), they are starting to get left by the wayside, as their customers actively choose an alternative supplier.
As a result of these rising sustainability and waste management demands, our iWM systems are being utilised by businesses across a huge range of sectors (including those at both single and multi-occupancy facilities).
Businesses that stand to benefit from using iWM systems include:
- Facilities management companies
- Waste collection companies
- Hospital management companies
- Office and tenement blocks
- Hotels and restaurants
- Shopping and leisure complexes
- Schools, colleges and universities
- Factories and warehouses
- Transportation facilities (such as airports, sea ports, rail stations and motorway services)
What are the benefits of an itemised waste management system?
The benefits of implementing an iWM system on your premises include:
- More effectively reducing and controlling waste
- Easy to use with multiple graphical reports by User, Tennant, Department, Waste Type
- Real Time data allowing for real time decisions of waste management
- Recycling waste more efficiently, and minimising the volume of waste that gets sent to landfill
- Gaining clear data insights into your waste production and waste management, which allows you to make better, more informed decisions
- Minimising the risks associated with poor waste management. This includes losing customers, and damaging your brand identity
- Ensuring consistent compliance with all legal requirements
- Saving costs, as the iWM system ensures that you are only being charged for the collection of the waste that you have created
- Charging tenants or departments in multi-occupancy buildings and facilities for the actual waste they have generated, by waste type
- Identifying operators, tenants or departments who don’t meet your recycling objectives
- Targeting operators, tenants or departments with additional recycling training needs
- Reducing your businesses carbon footprint, by only emptying the waste container when they are known to be full by reaching the weight limit through accurate weighing of each bin emptied, thus removing the need to empty partially full containers
- Increasing your ROI over time, as your business consistently reduces its waste
- Keeping time-consuming administrative tasks to the minimum, thereby saving your team’s time and streamlining your processes
- Average IWM system payback is less than 12 months
iWM – Cloud-Based Itemised Waste Management
At Weightron, we are one of Europe’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of weighbridges and accompanying software solutions.
We have worked with businesses throughout the UK to implement our advanced iWM system on their premises.
Our solution’s key features include:
- A legal-for-trade approved weighing system (EN45501)
- Robust, ultra-low profile weighing scales
- Versatile, simple-to-use touch screen terminals
- Compatible with SAP, Sage and other recognised software
- Clear spreadsheet print-outs
- Full traceability records
- Suitable for all types of wheeled bins up to 1100 litres (larger systems are also available)
- The ability to electronically tag waste bins
Our iWM Waste Management System has been specifically designed to offer versatile, user-friendly tools that make waste measurement and control seamless.
To find out more about how the benefits that our system can bring to your business, our team of specialists are on hand to help.
Contact our team to discuss your requirements.
