How to Reduce Waste Costs

As a manufacturer of high quality waste handling equipment that maximizes compaction ratios, SP is familiar with the best ways reduce an organization’s carbon footprint. One of the rarely looked at ways to reduce carbon emissions in business and industry is by carefully evaluating the waste disposal process. Most operations leave disposal decisions up to their garbage hauler. The problem with this approach is that companies forget garbage haulers are in the trucking business, which means that the more they haul, the more they make. Even in recycling at the commercial or industrial levels, transportation is often overlooked.

Taking a closer look at how much waste and recyclable material fills the containers being hauled away from a business can make a huge difference. Densifying is the easiest way for industrial and commercial operations to reduce energy, reduce fuel, reduce emissions, and cut their waste handling expenses in half. In most cases this can be initiated with no additional expense or investment and puts money back into a budget immediately. Many companies overlook the option of simply putting a heavier load into their containers.

On the University section of our website, www.sp-industries.com you will find an explanation of how most industrial and commercial operations can accomplish these reductions and savings. Visit us to learn how to get the most from you waste handling dollar and how SP can provide you with waste handling systems that work!

Compactors in the Metal Recycling Process

Recycling scrap metal is an enormous business across the United States. From the 56 billion aluminum cans recycled last year, to the millions of tons of ferrous and non-ferrous metals sorted, sheared, shredded, torched and baled at processing plants, the metal recycling business is booming. Compactors play an important role in this recycling process. This is because achieving higher density during compaction equates to larger loads that can be transported from processing plants to steel mills, saving processers money.

SP makes long lasting, fast cycling pre-crushers and metal compactors designed to maximize efficiency and reliability. Our systems can include fluid collection systems designed to separate oil from metal turnings and chips. Also, our closed compaction containers eliminate the potential for ground water contamination in and around metal processing areas. Most importantly, our equipment is backed by the best warranty in the industry and our engineers can address any site-specific installation concerns.

You can visit SP online at www.sp-industries.com/ for more information about metal compaction and equipment specifications. Also, we would like to hear about your experience with metal recycling by replying to this post or contacting us on Facebook or Twitter.

Recycling Food Waste: The How and Why

Imagine cows and pigs eating semi trailers full of bread, muffins, and rolls! Believe it or not, this happens around the country on a daily basis as America’s livestock often feed on bakery leftovers. This recycling of bakery by-products is a story that largely goes untold. It is, however, an extremely important way to make use of the large amount of unused dough, cakes, rolls, and grains produced by America’s industrial bakeries. When bakeries have excess food product or products expire, these must be thrown out like many other items. However, removed bakery by-products can be processed and turned into high quality animal feed known as Dried Bakery Product. This product is then used as a supplement to traditional livestock feed. There is generally a high demand for this product and some bakeries produce four semi-trailer loads of bakery by-product per day.


Of course this process begins with bakeries using food waste processing machines that can meet the demands of continuous loading and heavy production. SP Industries offers several different options for handling wet or dry food waste. Systems are not only made to adhere to the safety requirements produced by OSHA, but can also be made of stainless steel to meet USDA requirements. Our food waste compactors also have short cycle times and large chamber sizes to maximize waste handling efficiency. You can see an entire food waste handling system in action in this video. For food waste that is very dense, auger style containers work best for distributing waste that cannot be usefully compacted.

For more information on the process of recycling bakery products visit: http://www.scopeproducts.com/index.php and for more information on the equipment that makes this possible visit: http://www.bestcompactors.com/Food_Waste.htm Also, we would like to hear about any creative ways that you recycle food waste at home, from feeding your animals leftovers to using coffee grounds as potting soil by replying to this blog, or contacting us on Facebook or Twitter.

Reduce Costs And Your Footprint!

Ideally, waste handling at the commercial and industrial levels should be designed to reduce an organization’s carbon footprint while saving money. Fortunately, SP has been familiar with the best ways to do both of these things for many years. One of the rarely looked at ways to reduce carbon emissions in business and industry is by thoroughly evaluating the waste disposal process. Most operations leave disposal decisions up to their garbage hauler. The problem with this approach is that companies forget garbage haulers are in the trucking business, which means that the more they haul, the more they make. Even in recycling at the commercial or industrial levels, transportation is often overlooked. 

Taking a closer look at how much waste and recyclable material fills the containers being hauled away from a business can make a huge difference in how much disposal costs. Densifying is the easiest way for industrial and commercial operations to reduce energy, reduce fuel, reduce emissions, and cut their waste handling expenses in half. In most cases this can be initiated with no additional expense or investment and puts money back into a budget immediately. SP makes this happen for companies by figuring out realistic ways to put heavier loads into their containers.

On the University section of our website you will find an explanation of how most industrial and commercial operations can accomplish these reductions and savings. Contact us to learn how to get the most from you waste handling dollar and how SP can provide you with waste handling systems that work!

Sustainability in the Material Handling Industry

If not already developed, your company has likely begun to develop some sort of a green initiative. The conventional wisdom of doing things good for the environment and good for the bottom line is sometimes difficult to achieve. Now, thanks to the application of high density compaction and innovative technology, that’s all changing in the field of waste material handling and solid waste removal.

Through high density compaction and automated dispatching of waste haulers, it is possible to reduce transportation operations by an average of 40% or more. Such results are possible by fixing the problem at the source….the waste compactor. By improving the performance efficiency of waste compactor management so that only maximum loaded compactor containers are picked up, enormous improvements and savings are possible.

This is especially important because waste removal trucks are among the least efficient vehicles on the road. But as it turns out, the easiest solution to reducing costs and the carbon footprint of the waste process is with the waste compactor, not the truck. A high density compactor with a monitoring system from SP Industries is your best solution. An automated monitoring system actually watches how the high density compactor container is filling, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When a “full container” is sensed, the waste hauler is automatically notified by the monitor. In real world experience, this results in an average of 40% fewer trips by the waste hauler, and reducing the fuel consumption, air pollution, and carbon footprint of these trucks by 40%!

Many waste compactor users find it almost impossible to consistently know when a compactor’s container is ready for pickup. Because businesses are often concerned about calling the hauler too late, they rely on regularly scheduled waste pickups, or guess when to call for a pickup based on such unreliable measures as pressure gauges and indicator lights. These practices result in compactor containers being picked up too frequently, often with only 5,000# to 6,000# payloads when they should be 15,000# to 20,000# payloads.

Like an out-of-tune car or truck engine, an inadequate or malfunctioning compactor is incredibly wasteful. Improper pressure settings or faulty gauges can fool workers into calling for a pickup when the container is just half full. The added pollution that results, as well as the added expense, can be much more significant than is at first apparent. High density compaction is able to greatly improve waste stream efficiency and document results, because it is a complete, fully automated monitoring solution. State-of-the-art sensing technology, on-board intelligence and embedded software are fully configurable to the needs of the individual user.

Fewer truck pickups equate to fewer miles driven, which means fewer trucks are needed to service the same number of customers. That also means that truck maintenance is reduced proportionately. So, reducing these factors is an added bonus.

Perhaps the most attractive aspect of utilizing these types of systems is that on a purchase basis, the system typically pays back in 9 months or less. After that, it continues to generate major savings. Contact an SP representative today to find out more about how to significantly reduce operating expenses and cut your carbon footprint.