Cleaning & property
Will our scheduled waste collections clear a week's volume?
Each collection empties all bins. Divide weekly waste by their combined usable volume and round up. Excess volume compares waste with the capacity of scheduled collections. Peaks between collection days can require extra capacity.
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Worked example
With the example inputs below, the calculator returns these results.
Collections needed per week 3
- Weekly loose waste volume
- 1,800 L
- Matching bins at site
- 3 bins
- Usable volume per bin
- 240 L
- Scheduled collections per week
- 2 collections
Other results
- Weekly excess volume (L)
- 360
- Additional collections
- 1
Use your own figures
Work out how many extra collections would clear a recurring overflow. Open the worksheet, replace the example values, then copy or print the result.
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