Sustainable Materials Management Delivers Top- and Bottom-Line Benefits

How organizations manage waste can affect the environment, as well as their own financial health. This has been true for a while. What’s different today is the growing urgency around climate protection that is upping pressure for environmental accountability in all business decisions.

 

Climate-related risks include not only tangible losses from damaged assets and business disruption, but also intangible ones, such as erosion of customer sentiment and brand loyalty. Increasingly, consumers are expressing their preference for buying from environmentally conscious companies. In one study, 42% of U.S. and UK consumers say that products that use sustainable materials are important in their day-to-day purchasing.

There’s urgency around solving waste management challenges because they can impact top- and bottom-line performance. While both figures help to gauge business performance, each term is significant for different reasons. For example, the top line indicates business growth—it’s a measure of a company’s ability to market and sell its products against its competitors. The bottom line in business demonstrates how efficiently a company can make a product or provide a service that creates enough gross profit to cover overhead expenses, while yielding a reasonable net profit.

 

A “no” answer to either of the two questions to the right can impact sales growth because more consumers are favoring brands that are working to be sustainability champions. A 2019 survey led by Hotwire and reported by Business Insider found that 47% of internet users worldwide had ditched products and services from a brand that violated their personal values. Protecting the environment topped that list of values.

 

As for the bottom line, the consideration is this: By meeting the qualifiers that support the top line, is this business able to stay compliant, manage its costs and drive its profitability (EBITDA) and, ultimately, its revenue (the bottom line) after everything is accounted for?

Research shows that having an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) program is associated with better performance. Analysis by Boston Consulting Group found that top performers in ESG information benefit from stock market valuations as much as 19% higher than average ESG performers, while margins can be as much as 12% higher.

Liquid waste is one of the more challenging material types to dispose of in ways that accommodate the environment, regulations and budgets. Our network of treatment facilities and decades of experience provide organizations with a safe and superior means to eliminate, recycle or reuse their liquid waste streams while reducing the risk of backups and service interruptions that could dramatically affect operations.

 

Services for Non-Hazardous Wastewater Include:

• Liquid Treatment process with physical and chemical treatment techniques removes contaminants such as oils, dissolved metals and solids. Remaining water is then sent to municipal treatment plants for additional biological water treatment, resulting in clean water that is returned to the water cycle or used in industrial operations. Clean oil products are collected and reused or sold. 
  
  
• Liquid Direct Injection technology destroys contaminants and materials in a wide range of waste streams. Liquid waste is injected directly into our advanced controlled combustion systems where the water is instantly vaporized, and the remaining contaminants and materials are destroyed. For organic waste streams, we partner with organizations that have anaerobic digester facilities that can turn wastewater into a renewable energy source.

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This type of waste is produced by households and businesses and is considered hazardous, such as batteries, light bulbs, aerosol cans, thermometers and electronics. This waste needs to be kept out of trash bins and properly disposed of to avoid potential liability.

 

We help protect our clients with solutions that:

 

Waste from packaged goods is inherently voluminous, with most of it being damaged, off-spec, expired or returned products. With waste hauling and disposal costs rising, companies need ways to manage their product destruction in an economical and responsible manner.

 

Among our innovative solutions for plastic and packaged goods recycling is our revolutionary technology that uses new ways to recycle all pack aged products. This process efficiently and securely de-packages “not to be sold” goods, including food waste. While the packaging of most food products can be re covered and recycled, few systems outside of ours can properly separate, clean and process their components, allowing the resulting materials to be used f or production or sold to recyclers.

 

Pharmaceutical and Medical Waste

When not properly destroyed, medical and pharmaceutical waste can fall into the wrong hands and be misused, or it can cause contamination of soil and water. Non-compliance can also be costly, especially for pharmaceutical waste, and can result in fines up to $10 million.

Clients trust us with this waste because we are a nationwide, DEA-registered reverse distributor with more than 25 years of experience in pharmaceutical waste management and destruction. Each year, we destroy 20 million pounds of controlled substances through our network of DEA Reverse Distributors and our 40-plus Waste-to-Energy facilities.

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Secure Product Destruction

Secure product destruction services address materials that cannot (or should not) be reused or recycled due to an inherently high legal, financial or environmental risk. These solutions mitigate liability by ensuring that confidential, counterfeit, contraband or defective materials are securely, discreetly and absolutely destroyed and then processed into clean energy.

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