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WASTEFOCUS AGENT MODEL |
NATIONAL HAULER MODEL |
GENERAL CONTRACTOR MODEL |
| Lock-in pricing for one year with capped increases in years 2 & 3 of 3% for disposal and 2% for CPI. |
YES |
MAYBE |
MAYBE |
| Surcharge added to actual costs for base services and each extra or on call service. |
NEVER |
YES |
ALWAYS |
| Customer has final approval power for bid awards and other major initiatives. All locations are notified well in advance of any changes. |
ALWAYS |
NO -National hauler has right to match low bid. No other hauler will give their best pricing to their direct competitor. |
MAYBE |
Haulers awarded work based on quality of service and price and not based on who will
pay the biggest hidden commission. |
YES |
NO -All of the hauling will be done by national hauler regardless of service quality. |
NO |
Customer always knows
the true costs and actual management fees. |
YES |
NO |
NO |
Focuses on reducing costs
by rightsizing, waste minimization, recycling,
and competitive bids. |
YES |
NO -This is a conflict of interest with the goals of the hauler. |
Usually acts only as a bidding company. |
| Pays vendors within 5 days of being funded by customer. |
YES |
Pay subcontractors in a reasonable timeframe. |
NO -Usually pays vendors on 90-120 day terms. |
| Reports all savings to client. Management Company only makes money by reducing their clients' costs. |
YES |
DEFINITELY NOT |
NO |
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 About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material.
The highest point in Ohio is "Mount Rumpke," which is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill.
A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers -- make sure they're recycled.
More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of aluminum foil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
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