Where Your Liners Actually Go: Finding the Shrinkage in a Facility's Bag Spend

Most facilities buy more can liners than their waste volume explains. The gap is not theft, it is habit: oversized liners, reflexive double-bagging, early changes and an open supply closet. How to find where your bags go and what to change.

Ask a facility manager how many can liners their building uses in a month and most can answer within a case or two. Ask why that number is what it is, and the room goes quiet. The order was set years ago, it gets repeated, and it only gets questioned when a price increase lands or a budget gets cut. That is a problem, because liner spend is one of the few janitorial line items where consumption is almost entirely a function of habit rather than of waste volume. Two identical buildings with ident...

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