Distribution centers, 3PL facilities, and cold storage operators generate enormous volumes of waste: corrugated boxes, stretch wrap, plastic film, pallets, food-grade returns, and damaged goods. SES has a reuse pathway for all of it.
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Distribution centers, 3PL facilities, and cold storage operators generate enormous volumes of waste: corrugated boxes, stretch wrap, plastic film, pallets, food-grade returns, and damaged goods. The volume is constant, the mix changes with every inbound load, and much of it leaves the building as general trash simply because no single vendor will take all of it.
SES builds a program that covers every one of those streams. Each material is routed to the reuse pathway that fits it, whether that is industrial recycling, alternative engineered fuels, organics processing or another beneficial reuse application. The result is 100% landfill diversion and documentation showing what your facility diverted and what it became.
Four pressures are reshaping how distribution and cold storage facilities handle the waste they produce.
Retailers and shippers increasingly set packaging and waste requirements for the facilities that handle their freight, and they expect those requirements to be documented rather than asserted. A 3PL that cannot show where its corrugated, film and pallets ended up is at a disadvantage when contracts come up for renewal.
E-commerce has pushed returns back into the warehouse. Returned, damaged and off-spec goods arrive mixed in with their packaging, and each one has to be assessed, separated and dispositioned rather than simply shipped out again.
Cold storage and food-grade operations produce streams that ordinary recycling will not accept: expired product, food-grade returns and organics still sealed inside their packaging. Recovering them takes depackaging capability, not a larger compactor.
Corporate sustainability goals now call for verifiable numbers. Facilities are asked how much they diverted and where those materials went, which means waste handling has to produce reporting, not just removal.
SES handles the logistics waste your facility already produces and turns it into a documented, reportable diversion program.
When waste arrives at an SES facility and is processed for beneficial reuse, it is no longer classified as solid waste. Instead, it becomes a new resource with a productive purpose, reducing your regulatory burden and disposal costs.
With six zero waste facilities and a nationwide partner network, SES can pick up and process any waste stream in the United States within 24 hours.
SES transforms diverse waste streams into valuable resources through Alternative Engineered Fuels, Organics Processing, Industrial Recycling, and other Beneficial Reuse applications.
SES provides comprehensive reporting on all materials received, giving our customers verifiable documentation that waste was diverted from landfills.
Beyond packaging, two logistics waste streams carry requirements of their own.
Returned, damaged and off-spec goods still carry your brand. SES destroys them under documented control and diverts 100% of the resulting material from landfill. Branded materials and recalled products move through the same documented stream, every load is tracked from your dock through final processing, and you receive certificates of destruction, chain of custody reporting and certificates of landfill diversion.
More about assured destruction »Cold storage and food-grade operations generate returns, expired product and organics alongside their packaging. SES recovers both the food and the packaging, so neither goes to landfill.
More about food waste recovery »All material streams are documented for landfill diversion, giving you measurable progress toward your zero waste and sustainability goals.
Every SES customer gets full access to waste diversion reporting and security tracking: chain of custody, photo documentation, certificates of destruction, and 24/7 security monitored facilities.
SES pairs Six Sigma Black Belts with TRUE Certified Zero Waste to Landfill Advisors. That "lean and green" combination brings process discipline to your waste program, uncovering cost savings and efficiency gains.
SES builds the zero waste pathway and supplies the comprehensive documentation and diversion data required for ESG reporting and sustainability credentials like TRUE Zero Waste, UL 2799, and ISO 14001.
