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REFUSE SPECIALISTS

Refuse Specialists (UCS) is a full service waste and recycling resource that focuses on increasing hauler/recycler bill accuracy, elevating visibility, increasing operational efficiencies and reducing costs. We are not waste haulers ~ we manage waste contractors, applying a powerful Big-Data approach to get the best prices, secure favorable contractual terms, audit invoices electronically, and provide comprehensive reporting using the RS proprietary workflow management software, ProRefuseTM, so you can better manage the waste aspect of your operations with ease.

Our Approach:

Data and Program Analysis – We review every aspect of our client’s’ waste and recycling services allowing us to execute strategies and solutions that focus on efficiencies.

Program Optimization – We present options to our clients, secure agreements with favorable terms and safely store copies of all contracts and electronically audit every invoice.

Intelligent Solutions – We execute the strategies developed to create efficiencies throughout the workflow. Our onboarding ensures implementation of the pricing and services and then all data on and off the invoice is captured, stored and presented via robust standard reporting in the UCS proprietary waste workflow management system, ProRefuseTM.

Single Source Solution – One number Customer Service nationally, assigned Trash Team with dedicated trash professionals, flexible billing structures to meet your company’s needs, expert contract management and double blind, line by line, audit of every invoice.

Benefits Summary – In addition to a net cost reduction of 10% or more
  • An assigned Trash Team at your disposal via one number for all waste issues nationally
  • UCS as your waste hauling and recycling department and manages every aspect of your waste and recycling program nationally.
  • Customized payment management services at no cost; individual, bulk, bill pay, direct pay
  • Automatic electronic auditing and reconciliation included
  • Standard detailed reporting; diversion, invoice details, recycling analysis, aging and more
  • Customized reporting at no additional cost
  • Visibility into your waste stream – deep data and decisional dashboards
  • Easy to enroll; Agreement, Letter of Authorization, Most Recent Invoice and List of Locations
  • Market leverage by managing $100MM+ of waste spend
  • 20+ years of relationships with 1,600 waste contractor executives/owners means influence for you
  • Unprecedented technology with the UCS’ proprietary ProRefuser database, means detailed operational knowledge and actual-cost info to increase your NOI
  • ProRefuser auditing engine means electronic scraping and auditing of every invoice for more savings

We’ve combined industry experts with the RS proprietary enterprise software, ProRefuserTM, to give you the best of both worlds – human expertise, customized bulk billing solutions, one number consolidated customer service, backed by data, all designed to drive down your cost and increase transparency.

Overview of the UCS Workflow

Overview of the workflow

Client provides us with their most recent invoice for each location

A Letter of Authorization is sent to every hauler

Every vendor is called to confirm services to build the baseline

Create a new negotiation

Contact recyclers to secure preferential pricing

Business is awarded to the most qualified hauler

Client & hauler sign new contract with updated terms

Hauler sends us the invoices following effective date

A double-blind audit of the invoices is conducted

Invoices are approved and distributed

  • Individual Invoices
  • Bulk Invoices
  • Bill Pay

Invoices are prepared per the clients billing instructions;

"People don't know what they need or want until you show them."

Trusted with over $1 Billion in Utility Spend across 54,000 Properties

Simplify Your Data

Our team shoulders your data management, vendor contract negotiations, administration management, invoice auditing, sustainability strategies, and waste reduction with meticulous attention to detail.

Simplify Your Data

Capturing data is one thing, but visualizing and figuring out what to do with all of it is another challenge entirely. Using our state-of-the-art machine learning and warm data analysis, making financial choices becomes simple.

Optimize Your Expenses

Traditional bid processes and RFPs don't yield the best fair market pricing. Between contract terms, limitations on pricing flexibility, to carrying out agreed pricing and terms, a lot can - and often does - go wrong. Our decades of industry experience and proprietary workflow management system ensure you receive best-in-class pricing and optimize your company's resources.

Build Sustainability

Gathering and analyzing sustainability data from vendors can be difficult and a massive investment of time and resources. Even the largest national vendors have a difficult time aggregating and presenting data in ways which are usable to their clients. By using and integrating what is known as "warm data" into our machine learning algorithms, we can capture, analyze, and optimize processes in your company you didn't even know existed.