Get your waste and recycling data sorted
EnergyElephant now supports waste management and reporting across billing and disposal data. Reduce waste. Reduce costs. Simplify reporting. Increase recycling. Meet waste targets. Quickly identify and resolve billing and other issues.
General Waste
Recycling
Waste CO2
Expert Support
Tracking and managing waste is not only an environmental or sustainability priority. It increasingly makes financial sense too.
As natural resource use increasingly comes under pressure from circular economy legislation and supply chain risks, increasing recycling rates and eliminating waste to landfill (final disposal) are increasingly becoming important to environmental reporting and licensing compliance.
With EnergyElephant you can use our waste module to manage and simplify portfolio-wide waste and recycling data, spend, and reduce waste related risks all in the one platform, across multiple buildings and locations across the world.
With expert support available when you need it, we make it quick and easy to add waste management and reporting to your sustainability management in just a few clicks.
Some of the waste types we support include:
- General / Municipal waste
- Recycling waste
- Compostable / food waste
- Dry mixed recycling
- Mixed packaging / cardboard recyclables
- Glass waste
- Bulky wastes
- Skip waste
- Paper waste
- Timber waste
- Plastics waste
- Metals waste
- Clothes / textiles waste
- C&D (construction and demolition) wastes
- Confidential (shredded paper) waste
- Hazardous / specialized wastes
- Clinical wastes
- Bulk liquid wastes
- Batteries & WEEE (electronic) waste
Benefits
Sustainability Reporting
Reporting on your waste generation, waste disposal and recycling efficiency is increasingly becoming mainstream in sustainability management and reporting. Many reporting frameworks (GRESB, CSRD, CDP, etc) now promote waste data as a core part of annual reporting.
Reduced Costs
Waste disposal is increasingly becoming a major cost to organisations. It is also an area organisations may have ignored as a low cost. Proactive management leads to reduced waste and most impostantly reduced costs improving your bottom line.
Risk Mitigation
Ignoring waste data comes with many risks especially as waste legislation expands and enforcement increases. Deeper and quicker insights are required to reduce and mitigate risks.
Product features
Simple Reporting
Report on your waste by year, month or quarter. Data validated and auditable. Track costs per location or waste type. Spot outliers and act on them.
Behaviour Awareness
Keep staff and stakeholders informed and engaged using understandable metrics and visualisations. Just informing teams that waste is tracked can have a positive impact on reducing waste volumes.
Monthly Metrics (KPIs)
Report on your waste against key performance indicators (KPIs) such as recycling and composting. Engage senior management with easy to understand graphs and multisite views. View monthly costs and track waste reduction projects.