Efficient Recycling Logistics: How TIMOCOM supports the Transportation of recyclable Materials
If your business produces waste or recyclables, you must ensure you are transporting recycling materials properly. There are various challenges with transporting waste, including ensuring legal obligations are met, along with sustainability issues, and finding a reliable partner to transport your waste.
A freight exchange can help you find vetted and trusted partners to ensure your waste is transported properly and connect you with reliable waste transport services.
TIMOCOM’s Road Freight Marketplace helps to streamline your recycling logistics. We ensure flexibility with on-demand and reliable transport partners. Our freight exchange also helps you route plan to reduce your carbon emissions and achieve your sustainability goals.
It takes 2 minutes to register for TIMOCOM, and you can start using it today to provide waste management solutions for your business. Get your free trial here.
Challenges faced when finding waste transportation
There are many challenges to consider when disposing of business waste.
Waste and recycling regulations
While you may outsource to waste transportation companies, you still need to understand your responsibilities when it comes to disposing of your waste or recycling.Waste and recycling transport is subject to local, national and even cross-border regulations.
Your obligations include:
Reducing, reusing, recycling or recovering waste where possible
You must sort and store your waste safely and securely. Some waste logistics partners will provide storage containers for you or lease them to you.
You will need to ensure the company you choose to transport your waste has a waste carriers’ licence and is certified to handle the specific types of waste you are disposing of.
The waste sites that receive your waste or recyclables must have an environmental permit or be registered for waste exemptions. You can check this on the public register through the Environment Agency.
As a producer of the waste, you need to have a waste transfer note. This is an annual document which your business needs to fill in that gives the waste transportation provider permission to collect your waste.
If you are getting rid of hazardous waste, you must have a consignment note completed correctly and retained, and you must store it securely in suitable containers and label them with the type of waste they contain.
If you do not meet your commercial waste obligations, then you can suffer damage to your reputation, fines or legal action. With TIMOCOM’s freight exchange, our partners are vetted to ensure you connect with reliable partners. This saves you the time and stress of having to find reliable waste and recyclable transport providers.
Sustainability
More businesses are increasingly under pressure to be sustainable. This is due to increasing legislation as well as investors and consumers putting pressure on businesses to be environmentally friendly.
Waste is a great opportunity to reduce costs and be sustainable. Simply educating staff on the issue can help reduce waste in the first place. You can also pair up with other businesses that can use your waste in their business, which creates circular economy logistics.
Ensuring you find a waste transport provider that understands these values and helps you to meet your sustainability objectives is important. Issues like inefficient route planning can lead to more carbon emission,s or illegal dumping can damage your reputation. TIMOCOM provides route planning to ensure transportation companies optimise their routes to be more sustainable.
Reliable waste transport solutions
You need a trusted waste transport provider that can transport your waste materials properly.
Groningen, a specialist in paper recycling, had four or five transport companies that they used to pass the loads further to others. Then Groningen started using TIMOCOM.
They can easily find another truck when their existing partners postpone deliveries of their products. Using TIMOCOM, they can find good truckers to help with loads their main transport partners couldn’t cover, and they can find them within an hour. This meant they could be more flexible and provide a better and quicker service to their customers.
Type of waste transport required
The type of waste you need to be transported will dictate the type of vehicle you need. You need to ensure the right vehicle type is selected, otherwise there could be contamination issues or waste loads rejected at recycling facilities. However, your waste transport provider will be able to advise you of the type of vehicle you will need.
Different types of waste require specific vehicles. For example:
- Walking floor trailers: ideal for plastics, paper, light recyclables
- Tipper trucks: suitable for rubble, metal, soil
- Curtain side trailers: best for sorted palletised recyclables
- Skip lorries: small-scale or frequent waste collection
- RoRo vehicles: large-volume industrial waste
The vehicle needed also depends on volume, weight, and your location. TIMOCOM’s partners can advise you on the best options. Start your free trial to find out more. You can test our freight exchange without any obligations.
Walking floor trailers
Most walking floor transport is suitable for bulk and light recyclables like paper, compost and light construction waste. The walking floor trailers have a moving floor conveyor that moves the material out the back without the trailer needing to tip.
Rear loader
Most general waste collection vehicles are rear loaders. The bins are loaded and lifted at the rear of the vehicle and are tipped up into the hopper.
Tipper trucks
These vehicles are best for heavy waste such as rubble, soil, and metal. They have a hydraulic ram that lifts the bed to tip the material out.
Skip lorries
For general waste or small-scale recycling, these are useful for collecting skips and have a hydraulic arm to lift and transport the skips or large waste containers.
Roll-on Roll-off (RoRo) vehicles
These are best for high volume waste products of industrial waste, large demolition projects or bulk transport recycling. They are larger than ski lorries and handle bigger containers that are rolled on and off the back of the truck.
Curtain side trailers
These vehicles are useful for palletised recyclable materials and have side curtains that can be drawn back for easy loading and unloading.
How TIMOCOM can connect you with transport partners
TIMOCOM’s Road Freight Marketplace means you can build relationships with vetted and trusted partners all over Europe and the UK and ensure your transport of your waste properly. Start building up your waste transport network.
How to register and test TIMOCOM
It’s easy to register. It takes 2 minutes and there are 2 steps.
Firstly, you fill in your company registration details and a contact person.
Then we check your company data.
Your free trial begins.
How to post loads
To post a load, you simply include relevant information such as the weight, date of pickup, required vehicle, location, and other details. Once you publish this, anyone on the platform can send you their offer.
To search for loads, you simply search for suitable freight. You can use filters to quickly find the right transport. When you see one that is of interest, you can submit a quote to enable efficient contact.
You can also build relationships by using the TIMOCOM closed freight exchange to speed up your processes. This enables you to show offers to only your trusted group of transport partners.
How to connect with transport partners
All TIMOCOM members undergo a security check, which ensures any transport partners on our platform are trusted and vetted. You can use TIMOCOM’s messenger, a communication channel on the freight marketplace, to communicate with partners. It is fast and secure and allows you to directly reach the other business.
How TIMOCOM can help with waste transportation
TIMOCOM’s freight exchange has 55,000 potential business partners across Europe and the UK. You can post your loads on waste or recycling materials in just 20 seconds with TIMOCOM AI, increase efficiency, and ensure you meet relevant regulations. With this option, you can create automatic freight offers via file formats such as JPG, PNG, WebP, PDF and Excel. You can also copy and paste text or screenshots into the input field. This saves a lot of time in finding suitable transport partners such as, freight forwarders and hauliers.
Tram Trinh Thanh
TIMOCOM Marketing Northern Europe, Benelux and UK
