Operations
Zero Waste Operations provides complete operational services, backed by the Zero Waste team’s decades of experience operating materials recovery facilities (MRFs) and conversion facilities. Our four-phased approach can be summarized as follows.
Phase I: Pre-Operations
- Develop Operating Parameters and Key Performance Indicators
- Staffing needs and hiring process
- Establish OSHA-Compliant Health and Safety Program
- Lockout/Tag out
- PPE
- Emergency plan
- Electrical safety
- Implement ANSI and other Industry Best Practices for operations
- Traffic Plan
- Site-specific work rules, practices
- Develop training matrix
- Develop inspection program
Phase II: Start-up and Commissioning
- Onsite for testing & dry-run
- Employee training
- Ensure recovery optimization protocol is developed
- Collaborative operations and maintenance training
- Implement programs from pre-operations
Phase III: Operations
- System Optimization
- Observe maintenance protocols
- Measure employee performance and correct as needed
- Real-time commodity recovery feedback system
- Market and sale of commodities
- Maintain characterization data and value of inbound supplies
Phase IV: Business Development
- Deep knowledge of economics and market conditions
- Optimize system to maintain marketability due to market or material
fluctuations - Incentivized to bring in additional materials, maximizing value of partnership
- Evaluate business opportunities by characterization and prospective supply source analysis
