Happy new customers

It is such a privilege to help provide solutions, a new customer in the Northwest sent this along:

Just wanted to let you know that the Posi Shell is working great for us. We have been using latex paint in the mix since day 2 with no problems. We have had high winds, rain, snow and sun and not a single issue.

It makes the day better knowing.

Dust busting

In the last two weeks we conducted some field testing of Posi-Shell Clear on haul roads in New York, Utah, and Louisiana. The results were promising - in Louisiana where our customer has to water continuously he found a significant reduction - and rewetting of the product did perform as we thought it would.
We will keep you posted on the progress - but are already offering and selling Posi-Shell Clear for application through water trucks or hydroseeding units, so if you have some dust that needs to be knocked down don't hesitate to give us a call.
Check out the photos here - taken in Louisiana... before, later that afternoon, and application process. If you want to know more give us a call.

Nothing is too hard for Posi-Shell

If you have tippers or other hard to cover areas that make the end of the day cover job hard - take a look - Posi-Shell can be easily spray-applied and clean up those problem areas.

Yakima County will put waste to work at landfill | Yakima Herald-Republic

Yakima County will put waste to work at landfill Yakima Herald-Republic

When change is worth the pain, reflections at year's end.

New Year's resolutions, we've all made them. Usually they involve some change we want to make in our life to improve it. Change is never easy, but the resulting improvements provide the reward we need to keep going till we can make that change a habit we can maintain. Stopping to take time to reflect on our personal life is important.

Reflecting and contemplating change for an operation or organization is an even greater challenge and equally important. The manager who reflects on his business, and looks at the big picture, cares just like an individual who is steward of his body. If as a business we want to reach larger goals, have a smoother operation, or make more money it will only happen if we make changes to our operation. It doesn't work to expect different results from the same operation.

Why do we make resolutions to exercise or eat more healthy? We do it because our bodies will run better, we won't be tired and sluggish, we will be able to accomplish more in our days. So it is with a business. Changes won't be without pain, but the end results will be worth it.

What changes do you want to make going into the New Year? Take time this week to consider what it might take to improve your operation, then be willing to overcome the pain it might take to achieve that goal.

Customer finds savings significant

This article highlights how Posi-Shell is making a difference in a North Carolina customer's landfill.

Profitability and maintenance

Maintenance often gets a bad rap. By definition maintenance is the process of preserving something or someone. My own experience in learning the value of maintenance stems from my husband of 30 years who has done a great job maintaining my car and so much more. Along the way he also taught our children the value of maintenance (a favorite story they tell is about the time they left their bicycle out in the rain and they had to stand in the rain to see how they liked being left outside in the elements). Maintenance usually comes at a price sometimes time, sometimes money - often both.

The recent issue of MSW Management magazine (Nov/Dec 2011 page 22) has an article titled "The Profitability and the Art of Landfill Equipment Maintenance". It highlights that the size of a landfill's fleet of equipment requiring maintenance will be governed in part by what type of cover operation they choose.

Recently in our office here we have been studying the cost of maintaining various pieces of landfill equipment, specifically to study what kind of savings are available to a landfill that opts for Posi-Shell as their daily cover. It is significant. When you can greatly reduce the hours of use on a haul truck (or two), a dozer, scraper, loader, or excavator the process of preserving your fleet is much easier.

Daniel Duffy's article does a great job of highlighting how best to protect your equipment in the harsh landfill environment. He quoted Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." If you want less maintenance - use a system that requires less equipment.