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Improve The Safety of Your Trash Room with a Motorized Dumpster Tow

Image of a Tightly Packed Trash Room in Need of a Motorized Dumpster Tow
Improve Safety with a Motorized Dumpster Tow

Having employees lug heavy loads of garbage around in dumpsters can easily lead to injuries. Dumpsters often contain garbage that weighs thousands of pounds. In some cases, dumpsters need to be moved across long distances as well. A motorized dumpster tow can make this task much safer for employees in your trash room.

Motorized Dumpster Tows Offer Safer Trash Hauling

The WasteCaddy a motorized dumpster tow, provides a more efficient way to move dumpsters around. This battery-powered dumpster mover can haul dumpsters that weigh up to 5,000 pounds. There’s no manual lifting or pulling involved, which helps reduce physical strain on employees. This tow uses a 36-volt 3-battery system that can go from 0 to 3 mph in forward or reverse. It also works on inclined surfaces and on snowy or icy surfaces. This allows employees to safely move dumpsters to their designated location without the risk of injuries.

Efficient Design

The WasteCaddy has dumpster brackets that can be bolted or welded to dumpsters. This provides a secure attachment that prevents dumpsters from coming loose. It also includes multiple safety features, such as a safety horn and a safety stop switch and guard kit. Other features that make our motorized dumpster tow safer and more efficient include adjustable acceleration and braking and variable speed twist grip for easy maneuvering. Employees can use the WasteCaddy to pull or push dumpsters over long distances, in tighter spaces, or on slippery surfaces with ease.

Versatile Usage

The WasteCaddy offers an ideal dumpster moving solution for multi-family properties, parking garages, manufacturing complexes, malls, and many other commercial buildings. It provides a simple and efficient way to move dumpsters several yards for curbside garbage pickup. This helps ensure that garbage is removed from commercial or multi-family residential properties on a regular basis.

Cost Savings

Using the motorized dumpster tow for trash rooms can help companies save money. Its efficient design and safety features help reduce workplace injuries. This results in less money spent on workers’ compensation and related expenses and less productivity.

If you’re looking for a dumpster tow for your trash room, please contact DJ Products. We can provide you with additional details about the WasteCaddy.

The Cost of Injury: Improving Trash Room Safety

 

Keeping tenants, customers and employees safe is top-of-mind for business owners and property managers alike. On-the-job employee health concerns such as falls, back and shoulder injuries, and sprains are common and costly. One way to prevent risk of injury is eliminating the manual process of having multiple employees push and pull heavy loaded dumpsters from point A to point B.

Reduce the Risk – Boost the Reward

Did you know, the trash room is the number one area of risk in a multi-family property? Another alarming fact: a single employee injury can cost thousands of dollars in workers compensation claims. The WasteCaddy Dumpster Mover keeps your employees out of harm’s way and automates the process, allowing one person to safely and easily relocate heavy trash bins. Benefits of choosing battery-powered WasteCaddy Dumpster Mover:

  • Reduced risk of an injury from manually pushing or pulling heavy dumpsters
  • 50% efficiency boost for trash room duties (one person can do the work of what previously required at least two people)
  • Lower workers compensation insurance premiums
  • Improved cleanliness for multi-family properties & businesses

If you have questions or would like more information, contact us. Or give us a call at 1-800-686-2651 to inquire about our demo program to try the WasteCaddy.

Meet Our Team: Stacy W.

At DJ Products, we have an incredible team of employees that work hard and help keep our business running strong. From Sales to Production to every role in-between, each and every team member plays an important role in the success of our company.  Meet our team!

Title:  

WasteCaddy Sales Engineer

Responsibilities:

Ensuring all WasteCaddy customers receive the correct solution for their waste moving needs while providing exceptional customer service

How long have you worked at DJP? 

5 years

Before you came to DJP, what did you do? Any relevant industry experiences?

After graduation, my family bought a supper club on a lake nearby. We had it for about 5 years and then my parents retired. I then went to work as a bartender for a few different establishments in the area. I did that for several years then  went to work at a call center and eventually became the site manager. I have tons of experience in customer service but never worked within an industry such as that of DJ Products.  Our WasteCaddy manager is exceptionally knowledgeable on our products and is amazing at teaching us the ins-and-outs of the product and ensures we continue to have the confidence in being able to help every customer with their waste moving needs.

What would you describe as your specialty/specialties and why?

I take great pride in providing our customers with top-notch customer experience.

What’s your favorite thing about your job or working at DJ Products?

I love the company and what it stands for and  am honored and proud to work at DJ Products. Being able to assist our customers with a safe solution to move heavy waste containers is extremely rewarding. I love working with the WasteCaddy team. I could not have asked for better team members than the ones I have.

What do you like to do in your free time?    

Spend time with family, campfires, BBQ’s, playing around with refurbishing things and making stuff out of woods such as signs and things.

Favorite T.V. Shows? 

Last Man Standing & anything on Food Network.

How do you like your coffee? 

I don’t. YUCK! I’m a V8Engergy gal.

WasteCaddy Improves Operational Safety and Efficiency for Miami’s Porsche Design Tower

Over the last several years, DJ Products’ electric WasteCaddy Dumpster Mover has changed the way multifamily and commercial property employees safely relocate waste containers within their facilities. We are pleased to announce that the luxury Miami condominium and hot spot, Porsche Design Tower, has been added to the list of properties to benefit from the WasteCaddy.

Standing at a stately 641 feet tall with 132 luxury condo units, the Porsche Design Tower is one of the tallest and most striking buildings in Florida’s Sunny Isles Beach. The tower’s impressive three automotive elevator systems allow residents to pull into the building’s garage, drive into the modern glass-encased car elevator, and be swiftly transported directly to their condo. Previous to purchasing the WasteCaddy, the Porsche Design Tower utilized two employees to move each facility dumpster by hand from the compactor down to the street for pick-up. Manually pushing the bins multiple times a day and working with limited space created a safety concern. “Now with the WasteCaddy, we only utilize one employee to move the waste bins and it’s a lot safer for him because he doesn’t have to push them and get his hands into the way,” says Alex Carius, General Manager of the Porsche Design Tower.

The Porsche Design Tower staff enjoy the WasteCaddy for its straightforward operation. “When we got the machines, they were really easy to use. They came right off the crate and we were able to use them immediately so no training whatsoever,” says Carius. “We’ve been using the WasteCaddy for about six months now and it’s never failed us. It’s just plug and play, charge it up overnight and then use it – great product.” Porsche Design Tower representatives worked with Eddie Guerra of Canitize USA – a DJ Products’ designated dealer for our WasteCaddy product line, who strongly recommended the WasteCaddy as a perfect solution for the tower. Canitize USA is a fully comprehensive Waste Management Company providing turnkey waste industry solutions for waste equipment purchasing or repairs. Canitize USA, based in Bradenton, Florida has been a trusted DJ Products’ WasteCaddy dealer since 2018 and we are very pleased and grateful for our working partnership. Click here to learn more about the WasteCaddy and to view a full list of the unit’s features and specifications, or scroll down to watch the video below of the WasteCaddy in action.

To request a product demo or for more information, reach out to a DJ Products Sales Engineer at 1-800-686-2651 or info@djproducts.com. Our service teams specialize in providing custom solutions for a variety of unique applications.

Video: Increasing Safety Measures with the WasteCaddy

Our battery-powered WasteCaddy solutions keep your employees safe from the strain and pains associated with manually pushing or pulling heavy trash bins or dumpsters. One employee can safely operate the WasteCaddy, maneuvering heavy dumpsters up to 10,000 lbs. Ideal for multi-family properties, the unit is perfect for relocating bins from trash room to curbside for pick-up as needed. Watch the below video to see our customers using their WasteCaddy units. If you have questions or would like more information, please reach out to a Sales Engineer via Chat or phone: 800-686-2651.

Video: WasteCaddy Easily Transports Apartment Complex Dumpsters

The battery-powered WasteCaddy easily pushes, pulls and maneuvers dumpsters at Pearl Flagler’s 330-unit apartment complex. This helpful operational tool improves efficiency and employee safety at this Florida apartment complex. It’s the ideal solution for hauling heavy trash bins at apartment complexes, housing communities, condominiums, and businesses. For questions or more information, contact a sales engineer: 800-686-2651.

Video: WasteCaddy Dumpster Tow – The Efficient Trash Bin Mover

The Harbour luxury community in Florida has 420 units and accumulates a fair amount of trash every single day. With only one trash shoot, the WasteCaddy Dumpster Tow is the perfect solution for maintenance employees to transport heavy trash bins across the property to the compactor multiple times a day. The battery-powered WasteCaddy is safe, easy-to-operate, and can be maneuvered indoors or outdoors, even up inclines.

For questions or more information, contact a sales engineer: 800-686-2651.

Beyond the Dumpster: Could We See a End to Plastic Waste in Our Lifetimes?

Could your dumpster moving equipment soon be pulling less plastic waste? With plastics rapidly accumulating, littering our green spaces and waterways, materials scientists and designers are looking to reinvent the plastics regime.

They’re striving to put an end to plastics problems such as unrecyclable products, confusing recycling symbols, and a lack of compatible recycling facilities worldwide. Their innovations, if adopted and integrated into the plastics industry, could put an end to the pileup.

What New Technologies Could Put an End to Plastic Waste?

1. New recyclable films

Plastic films, comprised of an assortment of polymers and used in paper and plastic packaging, make materials unrecyclable. Swapping these films for nature-inspired, nano-engineered recycled materials mimicking a few of nature’s molecular building blocks can provide a wider variety of new materials – those that are water-resistant, airtight, or printable. 

2. Magnetic additives

Magnetic additives can improve the ability of plastics to block oxygen in sensitive products like coffee and medicines, while upholding their recyclability. 

3. Wood ‘plastics’

The cellulose in renewable agricultural/forestry wood byproducts, formed into a compostable multilayered material, can be used for stand-up food pouches such as those used for dried cereal, nuts, and fruits.

4. Plastics from recycled food waste

Agricultural byproducts and food waste can be used to create compostable plastics for packaging in a broad range of products, from cereal bars to detergents.

5. Compostable coatings

Silicate and biopolymer compostable coatings could improve the performance of biodegradable packaging, which by itself cannot uphold the required minimum shelf-life of products.

Are your waste management practices falling behind the times? As the industry enters a a new era, ensure a safer, more efficient waste management system. Learn more about dumpster moving equipment from DJ Products today.

Beyond the Dumpster: Technology and Innovation are Changing Waste Management and Recycling Efforts

Making Our Planet Cleaner and More Inhabitable is Invaluable to Sustainability.
Making Our Planet Cleaner and More Inhabitable is Invaluable to Sustainability.

At DJ products, we know how important technology can be in addressing waste management issues, whether it’s a trash hauler to make toting trash safer, or a dumpster mover to more efficiently shuttle waste. And we’re not alone.

Every day, product designers and industry professionals are changing the waste management landscape. How are their innovative new ideas paving the way for a brighter future? 

Waste as a Renewable Energy Source

The capacity to turn waste into power is one of the most significant innovations in the industry. Rather than breaking down in the landfill, new machinery called ‘digesters’ can convert waste and the biogas that it produces and turn it into energy for use on-site.

This process is compatible with food waste, animal waste, agricultural byproducts, and more. Bioreactors, micro-turbines, and fuel cells can likewise achieve similar results.

Improving the Recyclability of Precious Metals

New recycling methods, such as plasma arc recycling for platinum, can recover greater amounts of this precious metal, making them available for reuse in the automotive, technology, and chemical sectors. Look for new technology to achieve the same with palladium, iridium, and other metals.

Boosting Route Efficiency

Advanced software that optimizes collection routes improves fuel efficiency and reduces energy usage. 

Recycling Screening Technology

Sensors that alert waste management pros when bins are full reduce the likelihood of recyclables being tossed in the trash. New screening technology also sorts recycling, taking this task out of the hands of consumers and increasing recycling rates.

Looking for a way to solve your waste management woes? DJ Products has a wide variety of dumpster movers and waste haulers to make your life easier. Learn more today.