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Having the Secret Service and waste compactors in the same venue is probably not a great idea…  Listen to the full story in our podcast episode!

This isn’t personal. We are just not really interested in big household names right now.  Who we are really interested in right now are waste professionals looking to participate in our own anti-conference. We won’t have big floors, you won’t collect business cards, and we promise you that there won’t be a bathroom line.  We will have engaging conversations, the opportunity to create real business connections, and the best business dinner you’ll ever attend!  Apply now and join us in September in Pittsburgh! https://lnkd.in/eyTHQkvb

Meet Marissa Pavlik, our Client Success Onboarding Specialist. Marissa is the one making sure every new client's data lands exactly where it should! As an onboarding specialist, she interprets and validates incoming data, then carefully maps it into our internal systems so that cross-functional teams can report, analyze, and operate with confidence from day one. If the records are reliable, there's a good chance Marissa had a hand in making them that way. Outside of work, Marissa is a yoga instructor, a devoted reader, a proud cat person, and she's already up and at it before most of us have hit snooze. 🐱📚🧘♀️ We're grateful to have someone so detail-oriented and dedicated to keeping things running behind the scenes. Welcome to the spotlight, Marissa!

Is your waste billing process actually a process, or just a person? Swipe through 4 questions to find out. → If the answers feel uncomfortable, that's the signal. Most waste operations run on institutional knowledge that lives in someone's head, not in your systems. And that's fine, until it isn't. The goal isn't to replace that expertise. It's to capture it before it walks out the door. Read how to fix it here: https://lnkd.in/duV-zNSx

How much of your week is just... manually doing things a tool could handle? Matt had the same problem. Our newest Win with Tech edition shows how one AI workflow replaced 100+ manual lookups, and what that freed him up to do instead. Full breakdown in the newsletter.

Here's a question worth asking: if your best ops person left tomorrow, would your waste invoice auditing process survive? For a lot of teams, the answer is no. Waste management invoice auditing often depends heavily on individual expertise, who knows which haulers to watch, which fees are negotiable, and which billing patterns look off. That knowledge is valuable. But when it only exists in someone's head, it's also fragile. The shift from person-dependent to system-dependent processes is one of the most underrated operational upgrades a waste or facilities team can make. Consistency goes up. Errors go down.  We broke down why, and what it looks like to build that kind of operational resilience → https://lnkd.in/duV-zNSx

The compactor was overflowing. The instinct was to add a pickup. That call would have cost a multifamily property nearly $1,000 more per month, every month. The DSQ Pioneer Compactor Monitor told a different story. The unit was sitting at 60% capacity with a standard haul already scheduled for Monday. No pack-out indicators and no reason to panic. So the team trusted the data. And instead of adding a haul, they asked a better question: if the compactor isn't full, why is trash overflowing? The answer: the valet team hadn't cycled the compactor once in over two days, during a period when the site would historically log more than 100 cycles. One operational correction. Zero added hauls. Nearly $1,000/month saved. That's what a compactor monitoring system is actually for. Read the full case study →

In this new episode of the Waste Nexus Podcast, we sat down with Eric Wengryniuk from Reddy Equipment to talk about how to handle a family business, what compactor engineers really care about, and how to sell to pain points and not ROI.

$4,600 saved. 11 hauls eliminated. 935 lbs of emissions avoided. That's what one Southeast hotel achieved after deploying the DSQ Pioneer Compactor Monitor and finally having visibility into their compactor fullness. The shift was simple: move from a fixed hauling schedule to an on-call model driven by predictive data. The impact was anything but. If your property is still hauling on a calendar, this one's worth a read. Full case study →

Don’t hate us, Google. But we are just not interested. We only care about waste professionals at Waste Nexus. So, if you are a waste professional looking to connect with people in the industry, this is a conference made for YOU.  No big floors, no gigantic TED Talks, no book signings. Just 30 C-level waste professionals, making real connections.  Apply now and join us in Pittsburgh next September!  https://lnkd.in/eyTHQkvb