How to Maximise Warehouse Space with a Cardboard Baler

Warehouse space is valuable therefore having lots of recycling bins taking up space within it isn’t ideal. Whilst you can ask your colleagues to compact the cardboard boxes manually, a baler can condense the equivalent of several bins of box waste into a single bale making it a great option for businesses who want to use their space more efficiently.

Common Challenges Associated with Waste Storage

Before considering a move to a larger premises, many businesses look at how they can utilise their existing warehouse space more efficiently. The waste collection point within your warehouse is an often-overlooked area where space can be better utilised if you make the switch from bins to a baler.

Cardboard box waste stored incorrectly inside your warehouse can block fire exits and attract pests. Plus, with staffing costs on the rise, employers now simply cannot afford for their team to be stood around squashing boxes into bins. If your bins regularly overflow you have four options:

1. Up-size your bins
2. Organise more frequent waste collections
3. Use a Wheelie Bin Compactor
4. Use a Cardboard Baler

Whilst all options have an additional cost, the use of a waste compactor or baler can actually help you to reduce your waste collection costs overall whilst also saving time and boosting sustainability. Choosing the right equipment is crucial, therefore it’s best to get advice from an established business such as QCR who have lots of experience of installing baling equipment within a warehouse setting.

How a Cardboard Baler Maximises Warehouse Space

In terms of space, commercial bins are a highly inefficient way of storing business waste. Wheeled bins can occupy lots of floor space outside your premises but frustratingly, only contain a comparatively small amount of waste material. The good news is that if you switch to a waste baler, you’ll no longer need to use large wheeled commercial bins for your cardboard. Plus, if you have waste shrink wrap, you can also use your machine to help you dispose of that waste too.

Tips to Assist with Maximising Space

• If space is limited inside your warehouse, you can install your baler outside
• Vertical balers require less space than horizontal machines
• Choose the most appropriate machine size for your waste volume and size
• Maximise the output of your baler by using it for baling your plastic packaging waste too

Possible Challenges and How to Overcome Them

As with any type of machinery in the workplace, operators must be fully trained so they’ll know how to use the machine safely and efficiently. The need for ongoing user training is the reason why many companies choose to hire equipment from UK based suppliers that offer free ongoing baler training for all employees as part of their service. This is especially true for companies with a seasonal workforce or who are likely to expand their workforce within the next few years.

Finding a reputable recycler to collect your bales is very important. This ensures that your bales of cardboard are collected regularly and most importantly, disposed of correctly to prevent fly tipping. Again, choosing an established machine supplier with good recycling industry contacts is the easiest way to prevent any problems.

Benefits of Using a Cardboard Baler

As well as maximising your space, installing a cardboard baler has many other benefits for your warehouse team:

• Cut the cost of bin emptying: Baling cardboard can reduce the number of commercial recycling bins you need and/or the frequency that they need to be emptied, which can create lower costs overall. Plus, if your business generates large quantities of cardboard, then you may be able to turn your waste into revenue by installing a mill size baler.
• Improve your commercial sustainability: Less waste collections mean fewer vehicles on the road, which reduces your carbon footprint as a business. Installing a baling machine near the source of your waste for example within your goods-in department, helps your team to adopt baling as part of their duties.
• Sell your cardboard waste: If your business generates large amounts of cardboard packaging waste you should consider a mill size baler. The bales produced can be sold in quantity if they are of the required specification and quantity to attract a buyer from the recycling industry.

Contact QCR for Your Cardboard Baler Needs

QCR’s range of Warehouse Balers can help any organisation to boost the efficiency of their waste handling. In many cases, we can also offer your warehouse team a free trial so you can get valuable firsthand experience of the benefits of using one compared to traditional bins. Our knowledgeable expert team are SafeContractor accredited giving you extra confidence when we visit your warehouse to provide you with a free, no obligation, site survey of your business waste.