# Where waste goes, and what to use up first

Shipped · August 19, 2026 · Sustainability, Inventory

Record who hauls each stream away and on what terms, and get suggestions for using up stock before it becomes waste.

![The Collectors page listing who takes the waste away and on what terms: City Recycling at about 70% of its contracted capacity, Green Valley Compost at about 23% with one fewer pickup a week suggested, and Riverside Food Rescue, a donation partner with no contract yet.](https://handbook.company/marketing/updates/collectors-and-use-it-up.webp)

## Logging waste is half the job

Knowing what you threw out tells you what happened. It does not tell you where it went, which is the part a city report asks about, and it does not help you throw out less next week.

## Collectors

Record who collects each stream, how often, and on what terms, so the waste log reconciles against what actually left the building rather than sitting as a number with no destination.

## Use It Up

Reads your own inventory and suggests what to use before it turns into waste, with the quantities you actually have rather than a generic idea. Suggestions arrive complete rather than as a title you have to develop yourself, and the assistant can work these tools too, proposing entries you approve.

## Reading it back

The dashboard turns the log into the shapes people actually need: what was thrown out by stream, by reason and over time, and what it cost. That is the form a city report or a waste programme asks for, and producing it by hand from a logbook is most of why those programmes stall.

Source: https://handbook.company/updates/collectors-and-use-it-up/

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