Today, your business, like thousands of other businesses across Michigan, has discovered that waste disposal is far from cheap. It is no longer easy or cheap to dispose of the six million tons of solid waste businesses generate each year, half of the state's total solid waste volume. Prepares Your Business for a Waste-Free Future. Reducing waste makes good economic sense, good ecological sense and, increasingly, good business sense. Waste creates costs - costs which adversely affect profits.
Businesses incur a variety of waste-related costs.
Waste must be collected and stored. Maintenance personnel spend as much as 25 percent of their time collecting waste. Storing waste requires containers, compacting equipment and the use of valuable floor or dock space. Waste must be transported from the business to the disposal location. These costs have increased significantly in many areas as landfill closings have forced haulers to go to more distant facilities.