Organic Waste Disposal Company

I'm looking to start using an organic, paper, aluminum, and glass waste disposal service for my restaurant.

Currently, my maintenance includes garbage disposal through Waste Management. However my current volume of cardboard, aluminum, glass, and organic material is mind boggling.

Preliminary research has found an approximate cost of $225 per month using Turtle Island.

$14/pick for a 4 yd bin for paper waste
$10/32 gallon organic bin per week. Approx 5 needed.
$10/bin for aluminum, glass, plastic per week.

$2700 per year exceeds my need for green. Anybody have any recommendations for a more cost effective way? Any business owners out there have any success getting landlords to subsidize costs?

Originally Posted by Milkweed

I'm looking to start using an organic, paper, aluminum, and glass waste disposal service for my restaurant.

Currently, my maintenance includes garbage disposal through Waste Management. However my current volume of cardboard, aluminum, glass, and organic material is mind boggling.

Preliminary research has found an approximate cost of $225 per month using Turtle Island.

$14/pick for a 4 yd bin for paper waste
$10/32 gallon organic bin per week. Approx 5 needed.
$10/bin for aluminum, glass, plastic per week.

$2700 per year exceeds my need for green. Anybody have any recommendations for a more cost effective way? Any business owners out there have any success getting landlords to subsidize costs?

Shouldn't you be subtracting the savings you will have on your commercial trash pickup by not throwing all that away? In particular WRT the organic - $10 for 32 gallon bin seems quite good, organic material is very dense and heavy, and commercial pickup usually charges by weight in the dumpster. You would probably pay more than that to dump company, no?

As for aluminum - assuming this is waste from some kind of packaging in your restaurant - call around some metal salvage places. If you have a significant amount of that as waste a week then salvagers will either pick it up for free or know someone else who will - some will even pay you for it if you have enough.

My current waste cost is included in my rent. I do not need to pay extra for garbage removal. My current 8 yard bin is removed twice a week. Cost of removal is included in all tenant lease agreements. My decrease in garbage volume will not effect our maintenance fees.

On a plus note, cooking oil and bones are now free to pick up.

My aluminum waste is prodominatley from cans. To accumulate hefty weights would require months of accumulation and cavernous amounts of storage.

Most scrap metal places are only interested in stainless steel nowadays.