Campus-wide waste visibility for modern institutions.

WATS helps colleges and universities manage waste like essential infrastructure — delivering campus-level transparency, diversion performance tracking, and defensible sustainability reporting.

  • Automated data across buildings and vendors

  • Diversion tracking by campus, department, or facility

  • Actionable insights to reduce cost and improve performance

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Campus waste is decentralized
and highly visible.

Universities operate like small cities.

  • Academic buildings

  • Residence halls

  • Dining facilities

  • Athletics

  • Events

  • Third-party food vendors

Waste volume and composition vary across campus — but data is rarely centralized.

Meanwhile, institutions face increasing pressure:

  • Public sustainability commitments

  • Zero waste goals

  • Student activism

  • Board and donor scrutiny

  • STARS and ESG reporting

Yet waste data often lives in invoices, spreadsheets, and disconnected hauler reports.

Problems We Solve

  1. No Single Source of Truth
    Facilities, dining, athletics, and sustainability teams operate independently — without shared performance visibility.

  2. Inconsistent Diversion Reporting
    Hauler data varies by location and service type, making campus-wide reporting manual and error-prone.

  3. Limited Insight Into Dining & Events
    High-volume areas like dining halls and athletics generate significant waste, but performance isn’t consistently measured.

  4. Service Inefficiencies
    Pickup frequency and container sizes often are set it and forget it but money is lost when containers are not filled and serviced efficiently.

  5. Reporting Burden
    Sustainability teams spend weeks consolidating data for annual reports and disclosures.

How WATS Works for Universities

1. We Collect the Data
Invoices, service levels, diversion reports — across campus facilities and vendors.

2. We Standardize It
Consistent structure across academic buildings, residence halls, dining, and athletics.

3. We Surface Insights
Diversion rates by facility type
Dining and athletics performance
Service inefficiencies
Contamination trends
Cost per student or per square foot

4. You Improve Performance
Optimize service levels. Strengthen vendor oversight. Support zero waste goals. Deliver credible sustainability reporting.

Waste becomes measurable at the scale of your campus.

Built for Higher Education Environments

WATS supports

  • Campus-wide diversion tracking and transparency

  • STARS and sustainability reporting

  • Zero waste initiative measurement

  • Dining and athletics waste performance

  • Seasonal service optimization

  • Executive and board-level reporting

What Institutions Achieve with WATS

Waste becomes part of institutional strategy — not just facilities management.

  • Identify hot spots to increase diversion rates

  • Reduce service inefficiencies

  • Establish stronger sustainability credibility

  • Achieve faster reporting cycles

  • Boost campus-wide visibility & transparency

A Modern Layer for Institutional Accountability

Universities are expected to lead on sustainability. But leadership requires measurement, consistently not once a year. WATS adds the performance layer institutions need to turn commitments into measurable progress.

Institutions measure learning outcomes.
They should measure waste performance too.

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