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Building the economic case for waste reduction.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Waste Management
Interests: Climate Change, Ethical Sourcing , Waste Reduction
http://www.keystonecostreduction.com
About Keystone

Our Story

Keystone is Western Canada's leading solid waste consulting firm operating in Vancouver, Victoria, and Calgary. We are affiliated with Environmental Waste Solutions (EWS), North Amerca's largest and most experienced waste consulting firm.

• We use a specifically designed process when evaluating each and every account, and we follow a rigorous process that only a seasoned Waste Management Professional can accomplish – and it typically takes 60 to 120 days of focused effort to complete. 

• We commit our in-house and field trained resources to gather data regarding: waste stream make up, services agreements, equipment and pricing. Pricing is one of many steps in this process, but it usually comes later after analysis is complete.

• We compile and compute the data to design the most cost-effective waste management program to handle your service needs.

• We present savings recommendations to you along with a break down of expected savings for review and approval.

• We perform all implementation of changes and improvements with your approval of our recommendations.

• We monitor the plan to ensure expected savings hit our bottom-line each month and optimal performance is being achieved from the improvements every month going forward.

• We provide a breakdown of the exact savings results on our monthly invoice, which also computes the share in savings.  If No Savings are achieved there is No Fee. We are only compensated after you see savings hit your bottom-line each month.

• After our analysis is complete, each month we will recover and refund 100% of any errors or overcharges by your vendors without taking a share of these dollars.

• We have the ability to verify things like landfill increases and how they should or should not affect your pricing.  Our access to thousands of waste and recycling vendors allows us to identify variations in all cost components that affect your pricing, which gives us leverage in negotiating on your behalf.

• We will work with your company to properly distinguish between things like reduced production and reduced waste handling cost so you will not pay for savings that is not a direct result of our specific work. 

Our Journey

Keystone Posted a news article :

Did you know that your garbage company is sizing you up? Deciding whether or not you will accept a price increase to enhance their profit margins? For large haulers such as Waste Management Inc. they have the resources to crunch the numbers and see who is most likely to accept ...

1 month, 3 weeks ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

Download the On Site Composting Review Here! With many businesses looking to implement organic waste diversion programs Keystone recieves a lot of questions regarding the who, what, when and where's of organic waste. One option for higher volume generators is On Site Composting where organic waste is composted or digested ...

2 months, 1 week ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

  In this blog post I wanted to give kudos to some service providers that have given great service over the past month. In the past month I’ve had the pleasure of dealing with two companies that went above and beyond to support their customers and a few that fell ...

5 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

Well, it’s been a while since we had a blog post. We’ve been pretty busy with getting the new website up and running along with launching RecycleSmart, our new tracking and reporting tool for all Keystone clients. I wanted to discuss an item that often comes up when speaking to ...

7 months ago by Colin BellComment (1) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

We are working behind the scenes on the RecycleSmart program. Check out the new logo!  

9 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

Looking for the sizes of the various totes to better fit them into your loading dock or back room?   Here they are!  

9 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

A big part of the task at Keystone is managing, encouraging, motivating and executing change. It’s not so much that folks don’t want to reduce, reuse and recycle is that it requires change. Change is hard, it’s scary and often it’s the last thing on the list of things that ...

1 year, 1 month ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

If you are an avid hiker, biker or outdoors person you know all too well the familiar site of illegal dumping. In fact if you head out on almost any backroad Canada and look down a driveway or pull off you will find the evidence of illegal dumping. Folks have ...

1 year, 1 month ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

I’ve spent the last few weeks travelling in Russia and the UK, two very different countries in terms of their approach to waste management and recycling. Russia has very little recycling infrastructure (at least in the areas that I was, not to generalize the entire country) and for the most ...

1 year, 2 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

Looks like New Westminster beat Vancouver to the line on this on.   New Westminster News Leader – New Westminster to launch food scrap recycling pilot project for apartments.

1 year, 3 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

Ecycler.com is the winner of the $20,000 grand prize for the Fairfield Small Business Challenge. Tim and Craig logged thousands of miles as they travelled around the country encouraging businesses, schools and businesses to recycle. It wasn’t always all glamour but their hardwork paid off with more ecycler Collectors and ...

1 year, 3 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

Electronic Waste – Reduce Reuse Recycle Millions of tons of electronic waste is generated every year in North America and the amount increases with every new gadget, computer and smartphone that hits the market. In our quest to improve our lives through technology we are creating electronic waste at an ...

1 year, 3 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

Ok, lately I’ve been on a rant about how we have to make recycling more fun and less guilt driven. You know that feeling that you are a bad consumer that is ruining the earth but by recycling you can avenge your sins….yeah, that kind of sinking feeling. Well it ...

1 year, 3 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

Companies have great intentions when it comes to reducing waste and increasing recycling within their organizations. The recycling bins are set out and employees are encouraged to use less paper and other materials. But what if your vision of waste management goes beyond the bare minimum? Or what if you ...

1 year, 3 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

Keystone operates on a service agreement with our clients. It’s a standard one and a bit page contract that we read over word by word with our clients to make sure they understand what they are getting themselves into. We offer a 10% savings guarantee and state that the client ...

1 year, 4 months ago by Colin BellComment (1) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

I was cruising the blog of chadcomeault who is blogging about his experience with the GG-02 (aka The Red Dragon) apartment sized composter. Check out his blog here for an interesting review of this pint sized composter including how he is completing the loop in his condo with www.cityfarmboy.com. Chad ...

1 year, 4 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone Posted a news article :

Is your newspaper going a more exotic Christmas vacation than you? Find out what happens to your recyclables. Plant closure sends recyclables abroad.

1 year, 5 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

Keystone

Just saw the new parking meters on Granville St. that take credit cards!! Amazing, welcome to 21st Century parking....

1 year, 6 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

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Having an event, party, wedding or festival?@mygreenbin will make it a lot easier to recycle at your event. http://eepurl.com/buPdT #recycle

1 year, 6 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

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RT @ecycler: Just uploaded our new "ecycler Discarder Marketing Poster" to Docstoc: http://tinyurl.com/25odpgx #smallbizchallenge #poster

1 year, 6 months ago by Colin BellComment (0) •

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