Part 2: Waste Not, Want Not

Customize Waste Audits to Improve Sustainability Efforts

May 28, 2025 | Article by Shannon O’Connor

Amber Reyna, one of Verde's owners and Chief Revenue Officer, was interviewed as a sustainability expert in a 2-part feature article posted by CleanLink. “Initially, during a collaborative meeting between Verde and one of our large manufacturing customers, they planned to place individual trash and recycling bins at every workstation in their new, 700,000-square-foot facility,” she explains. “Instead, we proposed a centralized trash system, where individual desk bins were removed in favor of communal waste stations. This simple shift not only improved waste separation — ensuring recyclables stayed out of the landfill — but also led to major cost savings. The client saved $110,000 in start-up costs, diverted nearly a million plastic liners from landfills annually, and reduced ongoing waste management costs by $152,000 per year. It’s proof that a well-designed program doesn’t have to be complicated — it just has to make sense for the people using it.”  Read the full article here: https://www.cleanlink.com/sm/article/Customize-Waste-Audits-to-Improve-Sustainability-Efforts--31798

Amber Reyna at a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Phoenix, AZ