The Bin Tipper – the weigh of the future!
The Bin Tipper – NZ designed for NZ waste collection, this is the weigh of the future.
Waste management is big business.
- Plastic makes up 7% of New Zealand's waste stream by weight.
- Because plastics are lighter than many materials, by volume they may use up to 20% of landfill space.
- Approx 190,000 tonnes of plastic waste is disposed of into New Zealand landfills each year (PEAG, 97).
Every year, New Zealanders send around 3.2 million tonnes of waste to landfill. The majority of this waste is not reprocessed or recycled, and doesn’t break down over time.
To improve the environmental future of New Zealand, we need to start taking responsibility for the waste we produce by finding more effective and efficient ways to reduce, reuse, recycle or reprocess it.
On 25 September 2008, the Waste Minimisation Act 2008 (the Act) was introduced to ‘encourage waste minimisation and decrease waste disposal in New Zealand’. Under the Act, a $10 per tonne levy (excluding GST) on all waste disposed of to landfill was imposed from 1 July 2009.
This cost is being paid by your business!
In order for the waste collection industry to recover their costs is to be able to accurately recover the costs from their customers but how can you do this – simple by collecting data!
The Bin Tipper is the only bin tipper of its kind currently in New Zealand that allows your business to weigh the bin as it is tipped into the truck. An optional bar coding system allows for identification of bin user for accurate data collection. This information is recorded in the cab and can be transmitted to a central point. By identifying weight of bins, you can:
- 1) invoice users by loaded weight
- 2) reduce underweight loads and financial losses per load
- 3) reduce occurrence of fines for overweight vehicles
- 4) better track your waste disposal processes
Significant progress has been made on managing and reducing waste in New Zealand but there is still more to be done. The Bin Tipper allows the waste industry to tap into the growing waste problem and recover costs!