Most people book an audit expecting a compliance document. What they get back is closer to an invoice review, and the same handful of findings turn up almost every time.
Cardboard in the general waste bin
Cardboard is bulky, so it fills the most expensive bin on site faster than anything else, and it is worth money sitting in there. Pulling it out shrinks the general waste collection and creates a rebate on the way through.
A collection schedule nobody has looked at since 2022
Volumes move and contracts do not. We regularly find sites paying weekly on a bin that is a third full, and other sites with a bin that overflows every Thursday and has done for years.
Bins in the wrong place
If the correct bin is twenty metres further away than the wrong one, the wrong one wins, no matter what the signage says or how good the induction was. Moving a bin is cheaper than retraining a shift.
A diversion rate nobody can evidence
The reported figure usually traces back to a spreadsheet estimate rather than to weighbridge certificates. That holds up right until a client or a certification scheme asks to see the workings.
