Trio Packaging Systems was founded in the mid ‘70s. Waste management was very different. The company has been supplying packaging solutions for almost 30 years now.
This week, it also became one of the founding clients of Australia’s first online marketplace for waste management and recycling, called Waste Choices. Here’s why:
“Before Waste Choices, it would take more than two days for us to call and secure a service provider to provide a quote and to confirm a job. Since we’ve started using Waste Choices, we receive a range of competitive bids from different providers for one-off or ongoing projects. Waste Choices has not only reduced my waste costs, it has also reduced the time it takes for us to identify a reputable service provider.” [Christine Ford, General Manager of Trio Packaging]
Waste Choices is aimed at businesses that want a simple, fast, transparent, cost-effective and compliant solution for waste collection, recycling, treatment and disposal.
Through Waste Choices, businesses of any size may post a one-off project or an ongoing contract, in three easy steps, for the management of over thirty waste streams. A range of reputable waste management providers across Australia will then bid for posted projects, and businesses just select the one with whom they wish to work.
A bidder might be URM, 1300 Rubbish, Action Waste, Waste 2 Resources, State Waste Services, Bingo or a smaller provider.
Joel Harrison, co-founder of Waste Choices explained, “Waste Choices simplifies the management of waste by providing businesses the choice and flexibility of working with different service providers to manage various waste streams in a compliant manner. The cost of managing and disposing waste has increased over the years. Waste Choices offers businesses a better way to manage their waste streams by providing more options and access to a wider range of service providers.”
Small and medium businesses, hospitality, food services, property management and construction companies will benefit most from working with Waste Choices.
Waste Choices also offers an automatic alert feature that notifies businesses that are on annual contracts with service providers when they are about to expire. Businesses can avoid being automatically rolled into new contracts with their existing providers, which would generally attract price increases of between 10-25% on average annually.
Harrison added, “Many businesses get stuck with their existing service providers because their annual contracts are automatically rolled over. Australia has over 2 million business waste generators and Waste Choices will free them from long term fixed contracts, help drive down the cost of waste management and increase the transparency through a system of bidding.”
“Waste Choices brings a new competitive advantage to the industry by opening the waste disposal market to smaller service providers who want to grow their market share and to target new customers without making additional capital constraints such as hiring sales people or leasing trucks to manage waste collections. This is a win-win solution for both businesses and service providers.”
Waste Choices will be available as an iOS and Android app by December.
