Where Your Can Liners Actually Go: Overuse, Double-Lining, and Supply Closet Shrinkage

Most facilities treat liner spend as a function of waste volume. It is really a function of waste volume plus pulling behavior plus closet access. Here is how tri-state facility teams measure the gap between liners purchased and liners that actually held waste, and the five causes worth fixing.

Ask a facility manager why their can liner spend went up and you will usually hear one of two answers: the price went up, or the building got busier. Both are reasonable. Both are also easy to check, and in a lot of buildings neither one explains the increase. There is a third possibility that almost nobody measures, because measuring it requires a number most sites do not keep: how many liners were actually pulled. Not how many were bought. Not how much waste left the building. How many individ...

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