Circular Waste Analytics

Streamline, simplify, and automate your waste data management on a unified, extensible platform.

The Circular Waste Analytics platform provides highly flexible waste data integration, management, analytics and reporting to help organizations achieve their sustainability and operational waste goals.

Supporting your waste reduction and sustainability goals

Organizations adopting zero waste or circular economy plans and targets have found these to be challenging to meet.CWA helps take your waste management to the next level, providing critical data and analytics to make informed decisions about where and how to focus your efforts.

The system tracks waste quantities from each collection point over time, allowing you to see:

  • Which locations or buildings are generating the most or least waste - on both an absolute basis, or normalized by size of facility - so that you can prioritize opportunities for waste reduction.

  • Trends over time - e.g., weekly, monthly, seasonal, or year-on-year

  • Impact of waste reduction programs at a much more granular level compared to a campus or community-wide level

  • Provide increased access and visibility of waste data to stakeholders

Increasing operational efficiency

  • Provide automated, hands off records of waste collection pickups, including location, date, time and waste quantity; weight data collection can enable weight-based billing

  • Check and validate waste collection events

  • Assess collection vehicle and bin utilization

  • Use analytics to adjust collection routes and schedules, improving collection efficiency

  • Identify and address unexpected changes or issues

Integrate a variety of data sources

  • Truck weigh scales

  • 3rd party service provider data such as recyclers and transfer stations

  • Existing in-house databases and spreadsheet data

  • Data from any external Application Program Interface (API)

Provide a range of user-configurable charts and outputs

  • Built-in charts and reports

  • User-configurable charts - for example, by individual building, building type, date range, or data type

  • Export chart and report data in Excel or CSV formats

  • Export processed data to data visualization products such as Power BI or Tableau

Enable flexible, secure access for different user types

  • The web-enabled dashboard can be configured for different user access levels, from system administrators to community members

  • The dashboard can be customized by each individual system user

Scalable, client-centred implementation to meet your needs

  • The platform provides a set of powerful built in functions, allowing quick and cost-effective implementation with initial data sets

  • The flexible architecture allows new functions and data sets to be added on a customized basis over time

  • The platform can be hosted on the organization’s internal server, or on an external (e.g., cloud-based) server

  • We work collaboratively with you to fine-tune your system to meet your unique needs

Case Study: University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)

UBC’s Zero Waste Action Plan 2030 includes a target to reduce garbage disposal by 50% by 2030, relative to 2019.To support the achievement of this target, UBC Municipal Operations equipped their new garbage truck with a weigh scale to determine kilograms of dumpster waste (and corrugated cardboard) for each pickup. This data is attributed to each dumpster location based on RFID tags, and the system uses geolocation as a backup.The CWA integrates the truck scale data with other data sets including compactor data, and provides a range of analytics and charts tailored to the needs of two departments: Campus + Community Planning and Municipal Operations.

ABOUTWe are a privately held Vancouver, British Columbia based software product and services company.We work collaboratively with clients to create industry-leading technical solutions that increase operational efficiency and support a more sustainable world.Through cutting-edge product development and advanced technology research our team does bespoke development of high-end data driven applications and user-centric software solutions for a small group of clients across different industries.

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