What are the different types of waste in commercial facilities?
Generally there are 5 types of waste:
1. Compost or Organic Waste: These are normally leftovers from food, fruit and could include biodegradables products such as plants and flowers.
2. Recyclable Material: These material are usually marked with the recyclable sign and could be either glass, paper, cardboard, metal or certain types of plastics. Think soda cans, glass bottles, paper, cardboard boxes used for packaging.
3. Hazardous Waste: Chemicals, batteries, electronics, and aerosol cans are prime candidates for this category of waste.
4. Biohazardous Waste: Present in laboratories, medical facilities, or any other place where human or animal waste could be present. Think blood, sharp products that have come in touch with blood such as needles or razors.
5. General Trash: To make it easy – anything that doesn’t fall into the categories mentioned above is called general waste.
What is the process to collect waste in commercial facilities?
We call it IDC, or Identify, Collect, and Dispose.
Offices and commercial facilities usually have their own dedicated waste collection policy that not only follows regulatory requirements for the city, town, county, state, or province they reside in, but also industry standards they must follow.
Having separate bins in the collection process, disposing of them in the designated bins, and ensuring no cross contamination exist especially for biohazardous waste are the key objectives of this process.
Arelli team members familiarize themselves with each and every customers’ individual requirements by reviewing the details before the job starts and monitor performance as time goes by.
How do you replace liners in commercial facilities?
Liners are generally categorized by size, color, and application. Biodegradability is sometimes a factor that certain customers consider when making choices for liner usage at their facilities.
It’s important to use the correct liner for each waste bin. We’ve found a good calculator online that could help determine the correct size of garbage bags. See GARBAGE BAG SIZE CALCULATOR
The picture below is also a good graphical representation of the sizes of different types of garbage bags.
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