Why Are they Paying the Same?
Same great service with lower costs means savings you can pass on to your residents.
Trash is the last unmetered utility. Under flat-fee systems, every household pays the same, whether they produce one bag or five. Flex by WZ™ changes that.
Residents Deserve Fair Pricing. FLEX gives them the choice.
75% of Residents Overpay for Trash Disposal
We talk a lot about eliminating government waste, here’s a chance to do something about it. Nobody likes paying for waste, especially someone else’s. Our current flat-fee system charges every household the same whether they produce one bag or five. That’s not efficient, and it’s not fair.
The FLEX Program is Turn-key
Homeowners are feeling the pressure of rising costs on every front. FLEX gives your municipality a tangible way to help — putting real savings directly back in residents’ pockets
NO Upfront Costs
- Engineered to layer on top of existing collection systems
- No contract renegotiations, new staff, new equipment, or changes to truck routes
- Compatible with municipal hauling, contracted private haulers, automated collection, single-stream recycling, and organics programs
- The only change is how residents pay — not how waste is collected
We set up and manage billing
- We build and manage a dedicated program website for your municipality — explaining how Flex works and where residents can purchase Flex bags
- Residents who prefer their existing service can easily opt out via a MaxTrash sticker, available online or at a local municipal building — no manual processing required from your team
- We track every resident’s usage and handle billing automatically, end to end
- The result: residents have a clear choice between saving with Flex Bags or maintaining their current service with MaxTrash — and your municipality manages none of it
Does Not Disrupt Current Trash Pickup
- Engineered to layer seamlessly on top of your existing collection system — no overhaul required
- No contract renegotiations, new equipment purchases, or changes to truck routes
- Compatible with municipal hauling, contracted private haulers, automated collection, single-stream recycling, and organics programs
- The only thing that changes is how residents pay — not how their trash gets collected
The Power of Choice
- Residents aren’t forced into anything — they choose between saving money by managing their waste with Flex Bags or maintaining their current service level with MaxTrash
- Similar to your water, gas or electricity bill—Flex by WZ let’s people pay for their waste, not their neighbor’s.
- Flat-fee systems are quietly unfair: lower-income households typically produce less waste but pay the same as heavy generators — Flex by WZ corrects that inequity
- Under flat-fee systems, it doesn’t matter if a household produces one bag or five — everyone pays the same. With Flex, you only pay for what you throw away
REAL MEASURABLE RESULTS SINCE 1991. $2.2B Financial Impact
18B lbs Waste Diverted | 21M Tons CO2 Reduced | 600+ Communities Transformed
Ready to revolutionize your waste strategy?
“I am very happy with the partnership between Hanson and WasteZero (WZ). We dramatically improved recycling, reduced solid waste, and saved taxpayers a considerable amount of money.”
“WasteZero has a proven track record of helping municipalities take control of their waste and reduce costs — through flexible, community-friendly programs like pay-as-you-throw and organics diversion.”
“Given a choice, most people would choose to pay as you throw. It’s a concept that just makes sense. A family can pay for trash service just as for any other service or utility….For many of us, the waste cart has only a small amount of trash in it, but we are still paying for service as if it were full.”
“I was very thrilled with the cooperation we got from residents, whether they supported the program or not. It has come off much better than I had hoped for…. We’re very, very, very pleased with the amount of energy folks have put in. It’s been a great relief to me and others.”
“Both the increase in recycling and decrease in trash have exceeded our projections. Recycling in Sanford, which was well below the state average, has soared 150 percent with the WasteZero® System”
“It does not make sense for people to pay the same amount of money, regardless of the amount of trash they put out, given that the cost to the town and society go up for every extra pound of trash you put out.”
“PAYT programs can also yield an increase in recycling. Perkasie Township experienced a 59 percent reduction in the amount of solid waste collected for disposal after implementing a PAYT program, boosting their recycling rate to about 43 percent.”