Standard Waste Systems Ltd., a four-year old company based in Dallas, Tex., has begun offering free shredding services to its customers.
While the company itself is only four years old, Lou Sabia, the owner, has been involved in the waste industry for more than 20 years, having previously owned a number of companies which he then sold off to large waste management companies.
To boost the business, Sabia says that any customer can either deliver paper to the company plant, or the company can pick up and deliver back to the plant material to be shredded at no cost. All the shredded paper is then sold to Harmon Associates, a division of Georgia-Pacific.
The move by Standard to offer the free shredding service follows the company’s recent installation of a Vecoplan shredder about two months ago.
While the company presently only has the one plant in Dallas, he expects to open a full fledged facility in Fort Worth, Tex., by next year. However, the company does service the Fort Worth area, although there is no plant in the city.
The free shredding service began the end of last month, and while he is starting small with this segment of the business, he feels that this part of the business will grow significantly.
While Sabia began in the waste hauling business, he sees a greater move by companies to ask for more recycling and shredding. According to local press reports, while at the present time his company’s business is 60 percent trash hauling and 40 percent recycling, it will likely be a 50/50 split by next year.
While the majority of Standard’s business is still in waste hauling, he says that the paper recycling component of his business is growing. Sabia estimates that at the present time he sorts out around 9 different grades of paper, which his company markets through Harmon.
As for the free shredding service, Sabia says that sales staff are constantly looking to buy paper which they then process and sell. By offering free shredding, the company is able to get the paper at no cost.
The company operates out of a 42,000 square foot plant. In addition to the Vecoplan shredder, the company also recently installed an HRB baler, and now has two of the large HRB balers, along with two smaller balers from American Baler. The company also has a starscreen sort line.
Additionally, the company works with a number of equipment companies to provide compactors for some companies.
For the new, free shredding business, customers either deliver their paper and observe the shredding, or Standard transports documents to its plant in a locked truck, where customers may also observe the shredding.
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