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Empower People To Recycle Right
With The Waste Wizard

Reduce contamination and wishcycling while changing recycling behavior
with the industry’s most trusted digital recycling search engine.

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What is the Waste Wizard?

The Waste Wizard helps people quickly learn what goes in what bin. Real-time digital information is trusted, intuitive, and easy to use for anyone. 

Best-in-class search tool with predictive search and synonym detection quickly provides specific instructions on how to dispose of materials in your area. Reduce contamination and wishcycling while changing recycling behavior with the industry’s most trusted digital recycling search engine.

“We like to be proactive instead of reactive in our recycling program and that is something that ReCollect products helps us continue to do.”

Tori Carle
Waste Reduction Supervisor
City of Greensboro, NC

Lower Contamination and Wishcycling

We all want people to recycle right, but when they don’t know if something is recyclable – or where to properly dispose of it – they wishcycle.

Using the Waste Wizard, people search your website or the mobile app to see if an item is recyclable – and instantly get proper instructions on which bin to use or where it can be dropped off.

The tool is built on search technology that’s powerful – yet simple, intuitive and easy for anyone to use.

Say goodbye to time-consuming and costly printed materials and inbound calls.

Save Time and Resources

The Waste Wizard never sleeps, so anyone with a recycling question will find the correct answer at any time – right from their smartphone, tablet or laptop.

It lowers operational costs for staffing and call centers needed to support people’s questions. It also frees up your time and resources to focus on operational needs.

Still tracking materials using slow and outdated methods like spreadsheets and folders?

The Waste Wizard is pre-loaded with thousands of materials and supporting images to help save you time and costs and get up and running faster.

Data and Analytics

What materials and instructions are people having a challenge with? What are they getting wrong?

Waste Wizard’s advanced analytics help you measure and track your programs with focus and precision. Access the most commonly searched materials, and build awareness campaigns to target problem areas.

Every time people search, you will have more data to gain insights and make decisions on.

Our powerful dashboard lets you quickly update content, add materials and monitor usage.

Engage, Educate and Delight

As the Recycling Educator, your role is to help keep your audience informed and educated.

Stay connected to people in real time, and help them understand new and important changes within your programs.

Building a trusted, valuable connection with people is an effective way to change recycling behavior.

Change Recycling Behavior

The future of waste and recycling communications is digital. Maximize your messaging and campaigns to target people where – and how – they search.

Today’s recyclers are already using digital, and tomorrow’s recyclers will only respond to digital communications (i.e. smartphones, voice search).

When we communicate the right message effectively, and people change behavior in a positive way, we all win.

How The Waste Wizard Helps:

Reduce Waste Contamination

Lower Contamination and Wishcycling

When people don’t know which bin an item is supposed to go in, they wishcycle.

With The Waste Wizard, people  instantly get proper “address specific”  instructions about which bin to use or where the item can be dropped off.

Say goodbye to time-consuming, costly printed materials and unnecessary inbound calls.

Save Time and Resources

The Waste Wizard never sleeps, so anyone with a recycling question will find the correct answer any time – right from their smartphone, tablet or laptop.

It frees up your time and resources by helping people ‘self-serve’ important information about any item in your materials list.

Increase Waste Diversion
Increase Waste Diversion

Data and Analytics

What materials and instructions are people having a challenge with?

Advanced analytics help you track and measure your programs with focus and precision. Access the most commonly searched materials, and build effective awareness campaigns.

Our powerful dashboard lets you quickly update content, add materials and monitor usage.

Engage, Educate and Delight

Stay connected to people in real time, and inform and educate them about new and important changes within your programs.

Building a valuable connection with people with you as the trusted provider will delight your audience and encourage them to do the right thing.

Lower Waste Program Operational Costs
Multi-Community, Multi-Family Recycling

Change Recycling Behavior

The future of waste and recycling communications is digital. Maximize your messaging and campaigns by focusing on digital communications.

Tomorrow’s recyclers will only respond to digital (i.e. smartphones, voice search).

Let’s meet people where they search.

“We always link and promote the Waste Wizard in our messaging because the whole online tool saves a ton of time and money.”

Mike Dawe
Environmental Coordinator
City of Saskatoon

Key Product Features

How Are We Different?

We’re Custom Branded To You

You’ve worked hard to build a trusted brand. Keep 100% of it. Our proprietary custom branding technology means it’s your brand – and not ReCollect – that people see.

Industry-Leading Expertise and Support

Lean on our 40 years of solid waste industry, sustainability and tech experience.

100% Secure and Compliant

We only use best-in-class security tools and modern software development practices, conducting and certified through annual security audits by a third party auditor: Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)

Full Accessibility Compliance

Being accessible is not only the law, it is the right thing to do. We also hire a 3rd party auditor to annually confirm our WCAG 2.1 AA & Section 508 compliance.

Easy To Use For Everyone

Our real-time digital tools are accessible from any tablet or smartphone and are easy to use and learn.

Key Product Features

Provide instant, proper instructions on 'what goes where'

Provide real-time, specific instructions on how people should dispose of materials in your area

Deliver accurate instructions regardless of typos or misspellings

Harness our “fuzzy” search technology to deliver accurate instructions regardless of typos or misspellings

Leverage our pre-existing database of thousands of items, and add your own

Leverage our pre-existing database of thousands of items to help you get started

Add, modify, and delete items and materials or instructions at any time

Add, modify, and delete items and materials or instructions at any time

Easily access detailed stats and analytics

Easily access detailed stats and analytics on the “most searched” items and more

Embed on multiple websites and Facebook

Easily embed the tool on multiple websites and Facebook while maintaining seamless content consistency

Maintain full editorial control over your content

Maintain full editorial control over the content and use localized language for materials

Custom brand the tools to your organization

Custom-brand our tools to your organization, so your audience sees you as the provider

It all starts with a call to discuss your waste and recycling program goals.

“The Waste Wizard is brilliant. Having the information, making it easy for people to ask questions about how to deal with things in their households or businesses, is really helpful. It takes the guesswork out.”

Laura Leebrick,
Governmental Affairs Manager
Rogue Disposal