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ROUTE DENSITY DECIDES WHETHER COLLECTION IS VIABLE
Customers per kilometre matters more than customer count, and a single distant customer consumes disproportionate time. Establish a minimum density before serving any new area.
COLLECTION RATE IS THE COMMERCIAL PROBLEM, NOT PRICE
Waste is valued only when it stops. Prepaid models — bags, tags or subscription in advance — remove the collection problem entirely and keep crews out of handling money.
VERIFY THAT YOUR DISPOSAL DESTINATION IS ACTUALLY AUTHORISED, AND KEEP EVIDENCE FOR EVERY LOAD
Cheap disposal usually means unauthorised dumping, and the liability follows you regardless of what you were told.
REVERSING VEHICLES KILL CREW MEMBERS
Nobody rides on the outside, nobody stands between the vehicle and a fixed object, and reversing uses a banksman or is designed out.
TRAIN CREWS TO RECOGNISE WHAT MUST NOT BE COLLECTED, BECAUSE PRESSURISED CONTAINERS EXPLODE IN COMPACTION EQUIPMENT
Chemicals, fuel, batteries, asbestos and medical waste all arrive presented as general waste.
NEVER BURN ELECTRONIC WASTE OR RECOVER METALS BY BURNING — IT SERIOUSLY HARMS WORKERS AND NEIGHBOURS
CONTAMINATION DESTROYS RECYCLABLE VALUE, SO SEPARATION AT SOURCE IS WORTH PAYING FOR
STORED WASTE AND RECYCLABLES BURN READILY AND SUCH FIRES ARE SEVERE — LIMIT STOCKPILES AND SEPARATE THEM
AND BUILD THE BUSINESS SO IT WORKS ON SERVICE REVENUE ALONE, WITH COMMODITY INCOME AS IMPROVEMENT RATHER THAN FOUNDATION
