05/09/2026
One of my followers asked me how we deal with waste on landscape projects, and honestly this is one of those little systems that changed our business in a big way. Back in the day, we used to have our crews load everything up and drive to the dump at the end of the day or at the end of a project. Sounds normal, right? But the problem is youāre paying guys to sit in traffic, wait in line at the dump, unload debris, then drive all the way back. Thatās a massive waste of labor hours, fuel, and production time.
So we changed the system.
Now on most of our install projects we have dumpsters, or ācans,ā dropped directly on site. The cost is around $500 for us and we charge the client $850 as a disposal fee. The client gets a cleaner jobsite, the crews stay focused on production, and we donāt lose hours every single day dealing with dump runs. It keeps everything efficient and hassle free.
For green waste like trees, shrubs, limbs, and organic debris, we handle that differently. We load all of that into a dump trailer and stockpile it back at our shop. Then once a month we have a tree company with a grapple truck come scoop everything up. They charge us around $450 and can haul up to 50 yards at a time, which is WAY cheaper than handling it piece by piece.
A lot of people think efficiency is some huge complicated thing, but honestly itās usually small systems like this that save you thousands and thousands of dollars over time.
Thatās one of the many ways weāre trying to become a more efficient and scalable company every single year.
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