AT HOME BUSINESS - DAILY BLOG ARTICLES - MAY 2008

The Folly in Overlooking Trash

Running a business can be great. Some business owners experience great success. However, every business has to deal with the little things. While rewarding, businesses also have the undying potential to be incredibly complicated. In fact, with all of the stresses that come along with running a business, the hardest parts always seem to be the little things. Some business owners and managers become so engrossed in whatever their business is that they don't pay close attention to the small aspects that are easy to forget. It is the small things that, when taken for granted, can pile up and become unbearable.

Waste is one of those small things. Waste has the tendency to start small and pile up. Businesses that overlook their waste management throw money out the window when they could keep it as profit instead. Trained EWS affiliates never have a hard time convince their potential clients that while it may seem small - waste is big. Through their knowledge and experience, EWS affiliates enable businesses to save from hundreds to thousands on their waste management costs.

While businesses today may be able to get by with less-than-adequate waste management, times are changing. As the economy becomes more and more complex, businesses will need the extra resources that sufficient waste management can provide. Gas prices are rising, and the cost of doing businesses gets higher practically every year. With all of these factors weighing down on businesses, a little extra money can do nothing but help.

EWS provides clients with a worry and cost free service that has the potential to make real and significant change. Ultimately, EWS affiliates never have a hard time selling their services - it's like giving away free money.

Freedom from the Office

What is the typical routine? Wake up early, shower, get dressed, drink coffee, drive to work, deal with work, drive home, go to bed, and start all over again. Countless numbers of people across the country find themselves stuck in jobs that, while rewarding, are far from desirable. They deal with the same thing day after day because they have to; they let their work take over. Too many people let their work dictate who they are. They let it define when they sleep, when they eat, what they do, and when they do it.

EWS changes that.

Environmental Waste Solutions offers potential affiliates a work at home business opportunity that allows them to succeed in the business world while avoiding life as defined by the office. EWS gives affiliates the chance to escape, and regain control of their lives. Affiliates can enjoy the subtle differences of every day, rather than just dealing with the same old routine.

Perhaps one of the most appreciated aspects of the EWS affiliate's lifestyle is the flexibility.

Take for instance what you hear in so many work places. Someone from outside the office comes in and the topic of conversation instantly turns to the weather. Eventually, someone may say, "Is it nice outside?" To which the office workers may reply (but definitely thinks!), "That's too bad, I'm stuck in here."

EWS affiliates can avoid the tragedy of a nice day. Take the day off. Go on a day trip. Or work outside, anything"s possible.

Flexibility is one benefit that every affiliate will attest to, with life at the office and life at the home office becoming as different as night and day.

The Life of a Bottle

Would you ever consider what the average life of a plastic bottle is? Would anyone consider the average life of a plastic bottle? While it may seem strange, the EWS affiliate does. Many may remain oblivious to the "life" of recyclables, but EWS affiliates are experts.

In order to help clients more efficiently and effectively manage their waste, EWS affiliates know the best ways to dispose of it. So many businesses fail to consider their waste as something with value. They only look at it as it's used and finally as it's disposed of; they fail to look beyond the trash can. In doing so, they never realize how they can benefit from what they so often cast into the trash can.

Without thinking, businesses across the country throw thousands of dollars into the trash. EWS affiliates have the knowledge and experience to do away with the "use and throw" relationship so many businesses have with the products and materials they use every day. EWS affiliates are capable of expanding the life-span of waste by introducing businesses to better and more effective disposal and recycling methods.

Recently, it has become (globally) clear that recycled products are a must. In turn, businesses across the country have become involved in initiatives to create "greener" products. Products are not only manufactured to use less energy, but they are built with recycled components - such as recycled plastic, paper, and metal. By using recycled components, businesses in virtually every industry have contributed to a global movement that helps the environment while remaining profitable.

EWS affiliates can help their clients profit by allowing their waste to live just a little longer, and become something much more than trash.

The Numbers Say It All

Potential EWS affiliates and businesses across the country continually wonder what more they could be doing? What can they do to make a little more money? How can things be just a little bit easier? More often than not, businesses and potential EWS affiliates fail to see the connection between waste and savings. EWS helps everyone benefit from waste. Regardless of the angle, waste can be put to work.

Through more effective waste management, businesses can see more of their profit, jobs in the waste industry flourish, the economy is strengthened, and the environment becomes one step closer to a healthy future. In the process, aside from helping clients, the environment, and the economy - EWS affiliates make a good living in the process.

Statistics show, using recycled glass instead of new materials consumes 40 percent less energy. This is one area where EWS affiliates are happy to lend a hand. By highlighting the importance (and possibilities) of recycling, EWS affiliates help reduce the impact businesses make on the environment, encouraging them to recycle more and more than they ever have in the past. Ultimately, it comes down to much more than profit and the environment. Not only do EWS affiliates help their clients operate more effectively, but they help create jobs and revenue while sustaining the environment. There is no downside.

By more effectively managing waste streams, EWS affiliates see themselves as a changing force in business. Across the country and throughout time, waste has been a problem. . It's true. It's unavoidable, but EWS affiliates prove otherwise. EWS offers potential clients and affiliates an opportunity to create value on a number of levels, all with what we so easily call waste

Enjoy the Omelet, but Remember the Egg Shells

What is the goal of a business? Profit, but in order to profit every business produces some sort of product. Regardless of the product, the process of creation will always lead to something else as well. By producing virtually any product, businesses will at the same time produce waste. EWS affiliates enable businesses to retain more profit, by transforming their bi-product into something other than waste. EWS affiliates enable their clients to look at waste, not in the literal sense of the word, but as something else entirely.

EWS allows businesses to deal with the ever-present adage, "If you're going to make an omelet, you've got to break some eggs". Every business offers their customers something. Regardless of what that something is, the waste will always be there. Restaurants throw away excess food, machine shops must dispose of scrap metal, and grocery stores must throw away spoiled produce. Similarly, when you make an omelet you have to deal with the eggshells. You may throw away the eggshells, you might recycle them, and you may even use them as compost. The key, as EWS realizes, is not treating waste like waste.

In the very same way, businesses have to do something with their bi-product, they could throw it away and pay for inefficient waste management, or they could recycle it. EWS ensures that businesses efficiently and effectively recycle their waste. Like the person who composts their egg shells, not only does the business have an "omelet" (or a product), but they even have the chance to benefit from their bi-product, or waste.

4.6 Pounds a Day

Each American generates roughly 4.6 pounds of waste each day. Of that 4.6 pounds, roughly a pound and a half is recycled, which is roughly 33 percent. This is a vast improvement over the past 10 years, however - one must wonder how much waste the average business produces?

Just as the average business aims to offer a service to its customers throughout the day, the business day, the amount of waste produced will often increase in proportion to the amount of business taking place. The more customers a restaurant serves, the more waste they will be forced to dispose of. Similarly, as manufacturers experience increases in demand for their product, their amount of waste will increase.

Just as every person produces close to 5 pounds of waste a day, the amount of waste a business produces will undoubtedly be much more. Just like a human, businesses have many of the same needs - they consume, grow, and produce waste. Just like the average household, businesses must manage their waste efficiently, or the consequences will be expensive, inconvenient, and messy.

If the nature of a business is to serve its customers, it's only natural that more business will lead to more waste. Knowing this, businesses cannot overlook their waste management. Every day, EWS affiliates remind their clients of the importance of waste, and the fact that, while they may not know it, it has the potential to slowly (and unnecessarily) leech thousands of dollars from their company.

By streamlining waste management, EWS eases the burden waste places on businesses, and at the same time, the environment. EWS ensures that businesses will never have to worry about excessive costs or excessive waste that seemingly has nowhere to go. With knowledge and industry expertise, EWS affiliates ensure that businesses can operate without wasting time on inefficient waste management - and it pays off, literally.

Reduce, Recycle, Reuse - with EWS

Households, towns, and cities across the country are beginning to enforce recycling regulations - demanding that every effort be made to recycle. Driving in the car, it is becoming increasingly obvious that recycling is no longer a short-lived fad or isolated effort. Recycling is big because the issue of waste is big.

When Americans across the country combine personal and industrial recycling, the benefit to the environment can be astronomical. At the same time, while recycling in the home cannot be ignored, the many benefits that come along with industrial recycling are far more than a clear conscience and a smaller landfill.

Businesses that turn to EWS to help them more effectively manage their industrial waste will discover that they may be missing out on thousands of dollars. They could be throwing away thousands of dollars instead of setting them aside as profit. EWS affiliates can be proud of their work, not only because they make a positive impact on the environment, but because they help businesses keep their profits. In the long-term, EWS affiliates better not only the environment, but the economy as well.

Clients may not know that recycling does much more than give them the opportunity to call themselves "green". Recycling reduces business costs and creates more jobs. According to the EPA, the recycling industry is a $200 billion dollar industry, comprised of more than 50,000 recycling centers and employing more than 1 million people. By making the most of waste, recycling generates an annual payroll exceeding $36 billion dollars.

Some may ask, so what?

This simply proves that EWS affiliates are a part of an enterprise that extends recycling far beyond what we know it as. By working with EWS, clients contribute to the greater whole - and that's something both client and affiliate can feel good about.