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26 Ways to Go Green for the Holidays

12/12/2019 by WsiProjects Leave a Comment

Waste Masters Solutions is a commercial waste management company. While we deal mostly with businesses, we strive to be a leader in environmental stewardship with in our community.

The holidays are a magical time. However, for some they are a time of excess and waste. That is why each December we share some tips on how to go green for the holidays.

This year we compiled a list of 26 ideas that can help your family and friends reflect on the true meaning of this time of year. A time to share valuable lessons on reducing, reusing, and recycling. We hope that you will join us in making a difference.

26 Ways to Go Green for the Holidays:

Buy Local: Support your local community and reduce your carbon footprint by buying local.
Buy Less: Do you really need to buy that much? Consider reducing the amount of gifts and spend more time with family.
Reduce Travel: Plan out shopping trips strategically to reduce your energy consumption and stay local when possible.
Give Recycled Gifts: One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. Shop resale and thrift shops for unique and lovingly used items.
Re-Gift: This is always acceptable! Especially when you know someone that will appreciate something that has been lying around unused.
Give Battery-Free Gifts: Buy gifts that do not need batteries in order to reduce the toxins that batteries cause our environment.
Give to a Charity: Donate to the recipient’s favorite cause. It will make you both feel good!
Make Eco-Donations: Donate to local conservation groups or eco-friendly organizations.
Give Gift Certificates: Lessen the chances of getting something that is not to the taste of the recipient by giving a gift card to their favorite store.
Send E-Cards: Reduce the carbon footprint that paper card cause by delivering an e-card right into loved one’s email box.
Reuse Wrapping & Trimmings: Reuse save bows, ribbons and wrapping paper saved from the year before. Another great way to reduce waste is to buy reusable decorative boxes that to use for years to come!
Use Eco-Friendly Gift Wrap: If you have to use new wrapping, buy gift wrap made from recycled materials, make your own from newspaper, paper bags, cloth etc …
Use LED Lights in Displays: Us energy saving LED lights on the tree and in displays. They last longer and use less electricity.
Reduce Holiday Lighting: Keep lighting to a minimal. No need to outdo the Jones.
Turn Lights Off at Bedtime: Holiday lights left on are a waste of electricity and annoying to neighbors. Shut them off at bedtime.
Give Homemade Gifts: Homemade gifts are more personal and treasured. It tells the recipient you care enough to give a homemade gift.
Give Book of Beloved Recipes: My favorite type of gift is great recipes that will last a lifetime!
Give Gift of Time: Instead of giving a store bought gift, take your family member or friend out on a special outing, have a game night, or help them with a home improvement project. The gift of time is a rare thing.
Stuff Stockings with Sentiments: Stuff family member’s stockings with pictures, memories or your favorite thing about them.
Give Homemade Body Care Items: Make a sugar scrub, bath bomb or scented soap for friends and family.
Thermostat Downtime: Schedule the thermostat to lower when family members are warm and toasty in bed.
Give Digitally: Send e-certificates, e-tickets and e-cards to reduce the need for transporting gifts, lessening the carbon footprint.
Cancel the Catalogs: Cancel your catalogs and shop online. Most end up unopened in the recycling bin.
Cut Down Local Tree: Start a family tradition of cutting down your own tree from a local Christmas tree farm, lessening the carbon footprint from trucking in trees from across the country.
Buy a Live Tree: Buy a live tree to be later planted or donated after the holidays are over.
Decorate a Tree for Birds: Instead of using plastic balls and other store bought decorations for outdoor trees, decorate a tree with suet bells, pinecones dipped in peanut butter, birdseed, etc …

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At Waste Masters Solutions, we believe environmental stewardship is in everyone’s best interest. Call us at 302-824-0909

At WasteMasters Solutions, a commercial waste management company, we believe environmental stewardship is in everyone’s best interest. Want to find out more? Contact the commercial recycling solutions experts of Delaware and share on our Facebook page some of the ways your business meets or excel at commercial sustainability and minimizing waste. Waste Masters Solutions is a commercial waste solution and recycling company serving Delaware, making it our mission to increase community awareness of the importance of reducing, recycling, reusing as much as possible.

Tis the Season of Thankfulness – Waste Masters is Ready, Are You?

11/12/2019 by WsiProjects Leave a Comment

Waste Masters Solutions is thankful to be in a position to support our community. Co-founders Steve Masterson and Brian Simmons have long realized the benefit of giving back to the community and hope to inspire others to see the importance of giving during the holiday season and throughout the year.

As a retired non-commissioned Air Force officer, Masterson has championed a wide variety of veteran-based causes, such as #greenlightavet, #Flex4Forces and Stop Soldier Suicide. They encourage employees to embrace their favorite causes.

Wreaths Across America (WAA) Day pays tribute in veterans cemeteries nationwide. The WAA mission includes raising awareness of the sacrifices veterans make for the country and encouraging more people to remember.

On December 14^th, 2019 a coordinated wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery and at 1,600 additional locations in all 50 states, at sea and abroad.

Meet Mike Alamorian, a long time Waste Masters employee who has participated in Wreaths Across America for the past five years. He drives a co-brand semi-truck to pick up the wreaths from a Columbia Falls, Maryland location and meets Waste Masters’ employees at Delaware Veterans Cemetery, where the wreaths are placed at veterans graves to honor our American heroes. The event takes place on a Saturday in mid-December.

We are grateful to employees like Alamorian that enable Waste Masters Solutions to make community service a cornerstone of our business. If you would like to support Wreaths Across America by volunteering or wreath sponsorship, click here.

At Waste Masters, our objective has always been to provide our clients with reliable, flexible and high-quality waste management solutions. With more than 100 years of experience under our collective belts, our clients have come to rely upon our expertise, personalized service and extensive industry knowledge — turning to us for all of their waste-handling needs.

As a privately owned company with trained professionals on staff and access to a nationwide network of partners, we’re able to offer our clients an assortment of innovative environmental solutions including recycling, commercial and industrial waste solutions, concrete washout, porta potty restroom services and more, serving Delaware and the Tri-State area.

Our dedicated team of seasoned professionals are committed to excellence — always striving to minimize client costs, optimize efficiency and reduce (or completely eliminate) environmental impact. We also ensure that we satisfy regulatory requirements, which means you can rest assured you’re in compliance. We pride ourselves on maintaining a positive work environment where employees are encouraged to develop their skills, and where hard work is recognized.

Our goal is to provide outstanding customer service to our clients — and we pride ourselves on not only meeting, but consistently exceeding expectations. Furthermore, we value our clients as partners — making a point to communication with them throughout their time with us, not just when it comes time to renew a contract.

Currently serving the Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey regions, our trained experts are ready to work closely with you to developed a specialized plan that suits your waste-management needs.

Waste Masters is Ready for Dover’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series — Are You?

09/17/2019 by WsiProjects Leave a Comment

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series will be here soon!

On the weekend of October 4th- 6th, the Dover International Speedway will cap off its 50th Anniversary season with the 100th NASCAR Cup Series race held at Dover. The October 6th race will be the first in a Round of 12 NASCAR Cup races.

The Oct. 4-6 NASCAR tripleheader weekend also includes the “General Tire 125” NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season finale on Friday, Oct. 4 and the “Use Your Melon Drive Sober 200” NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff race on Saturday, Oct. 5.

One of America’s favorite spectator sports, NASCAR 2019 Monster Energy Series Playoffs field has been set, with Kyle Busch as the top seed as he won his second consecutive season.

While the main attraction for fans is the opportunity to watch the top drivers of the world battle on the ‘Monster Mile’ course, there are plenty of other family-fun things to do at the eight-acre FanZone located just outside of Turn 4 of the track. The FanZone offers a number of activities all weekend long, such as driver appearances, autograph sessions, Q&A sessions, interactive games, driving simulators, live music and sampling.

WASTE MASTERS IS A PROUD PARTNER OF THE DOVER INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY

Events like these always create a large amount trash, but thanks to its partnership with Waste Master Solutions, the racetrack recycles a good portion of the refuse. Look for the color coded recycling bins are placed in prevalent locations around the speedway. Dover Speedway is always looking for more convenient ways for race fans to recycle.

“We are proud to bring on Waste Master Solutions to manage our like-minded goal of protecting and preserving the environment by reducing our environmental impact and keeping otherwise recyclable material out of landfills,” said Ed Sutor, president and CEO of Dover Downs Hotel & Casino. – News Release

Waste Masters teams up with Dover Speedway and Dover Downs to do what they do best–help larger companies and organizations manage and reduce their solid waste production through innovative environmental services such as recycling, commercial and industrial waste solutions, concrete washout and porta pottys.

“We hope that we help them meet the goals of the people that come in and out of the casinos and the racetracks and other events there, by just having better brand awareness,” says Masterson.–WDEL

If you go

Keep an eye out for the recycling bins and do your part. Check out the Monster Mile Crash Course!

At Waste Masters, our objective is to be the company to turn to when a business is looking for waste and recycle solutions in Delaware. We have always been able to provide our clients with reliable, flexible and high-quality waste management solutions. With more than 100 years of experience under our collective belts, our clients have come to rely upon our expertise, personalized service and extensive industry knowledge — turning to us for all of their waste-handling needs.

Waste Masters Solutions is a reliable provider of top-of-the-line sanitation solutions, delivering dumpsters of all sizes, portable restrooms and sustainable waste solutions for businesses and special events all around the Tri-State area, serving Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

We are large enough to service your needs and small enough to care!

Check Out This ‘Behind the Scenes’ Look at Waste Masters Solutions!

05/13/2019 by WsiProjects Leave a Comment

This next company hasn’t just set the bar, they continue to raise it. Large enough to service your needs, small enough to care!

The next company we visited gave us a behind-the-scenes look at the amazing things they do. Come with us to Delaware and meet Waste Masters Solutions. At Waste Masters, their goal has always been to provide their clients with reliable flexible and high quality waste management solutions.

Steve Masterson, co-founder of Waste Masters Solution — Steve Masterson (President/CEO)

“Waste Masters is locally owned and operated with over 100 years of experience,” Steve Masterson (President/CEO). “We provide turnkey service for our customers throughout all the different lines and services they need. We pickup commercial waste, industrial waste, construction waste, we have portable restrooms and we supplied trucking.”

“We’re a vital part of our community and stay involved with veterans, as well as the community, the USO Delaware National Guard. Clearly, our foundations are people. Some of the best in the industry.”

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With over 100 years of combined waste solution experience, Waste Masters prides itself on its dedication, as well as its use of technology. For Waste Masters safety is always a top priority.

“Waste Masters is dedicated, first and foremost, to our safety. We want to make sure that every one of our people, plus everybody we encounter on a daily basis, makes it home safe and sound every day,” Brian Simmons (COO/CFO).

“Another point that we’re very dedicated to is our service. Our service is what we were founded on. Our service starts with our people being dedicated to each other and being dedicated to the customer.”

“Here at waste masters, we are dedicated to stand on the forefront of technology. We utilize tablets on all of our equipment, monitor and maintain all of our service levels, all of our equipment and our safety. They monitor where the truck is, the exact service levels that are being provided and the performance of the equipment.”

“You know exactly what is going on with every piece of equipment from exactly where they’ve been all day, everyday. There’s cameras on there so we can see what the guys are doing and there’s also information that gets fed back so we know exactly how the trucks performing so we can keep them performing at a peak level be able to maintain our service to the customers.”

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“We also have technology that is on the cutting edge that pulls all of our information together, gives us a platform to be able to control our financial success, as well as, our safety and our maintenance of all our vehicles.”

“Here at Waste Masters Solutions, we provide many services anywhere from picking up the trash to sending people a bill. That simple. All the way up through fully integrated environmental solutions for our customers.”

Waste Masters isn’t just a waste company, they lead the way in special event work, as well.

Steve Masterson, “Waste is what we do, not who we are. We do large events, big and small. From a hundred thousand people to a backyard graduation party. There are no jobs too large or too small for Waste Masters.”

Going above and beyond every single day. Waste Masters Solutions is one of the world’s greatest waste management company.

10 Ways Your Business Can Celebrate Earth Day

04/09/2019 by DeniseB Leave a Comment

Most Americans realize that our environment needs protecting, now more than ever. Earth Day is a perfect opportunity to raise environmental awareness and support initiatives for reducing, reusing and recycling the world’s limited assets. Cities around the world have extended Earth Day celebrations to last a week or more to increase community awareness of green initiatives.

Businesses that make an effort towards environmental stewardship often enjoy a positive brand image. Companies such a Patagonia whose mission statement is ‘We’re in business to save our home planet’ have used their platform to raise advocacy for environmental issues.

Earth Day Network works year round to solve climate change, to end plastic pollution, to protect endangered species, and to broaden, educate, and activate the environmental movement across the globe.

Earth Day will be celebrated on Monday, April 22, 2019 by millions of people around the world. This will mark the 49th year for this celebration and this year’s theme is ‘Save Species’. Since the conception of Earth Day in 1970, there’s been a loss of over 40% of the world’s wild animal population. Climate change threatens 75% of the world’s coral reefs, while the bee and other pollinating insects continue to be decimated by use of insecticides.

Those of us at Waste Masters Solutions thought it might be helpful to share a few ideas with our commercial customers on how to celebrate Earth Day and protect our environment for future generations to come.

10 Ways Your Business Can Celebrate Earth Day:

1) Teleconference instead of traveling. If you fly five times per year, those trips are likely to account for 75% of your personal carbon footprint

2) Reduce and recycle paper in the office, plus purchase 100% post-consumer recycled paper

3) Encourage employees to pack their lunch in a reusable bag

4) Conserve water outdoors by only watering landscaping in the early morning or late at night. Use drought-resistant plants in dry areas.

5) Form a “green team” at your office to find cost-effective ways to conserve resources and promote sustainability.

6) Advise employees to turn off and unplug electronics and lights when not in use. This includes turning off your computer before leaving for the night.

7) Coordinate and/or encourage employees to carpool to work

8) Create a ‘Ride Your Bike’ to work club that encourages employees to reduce carbon emissions

9) Make incentive programs that educate employees about using public transportation or driving an electric or hybrid car.