Routeware – Integrated Technology Solutions for Waste and Recycling Operations

Most site service operators reach a point where the tools they’re using stop keeping up with the business. You started with one service line, found software that handled it well enough, and kept going. Then you added another service. Maybe another after that. And now you’re stitching it all together across platforms that weren’t designed to talk to each other.

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Not everyone can trace their career back to sorting recycling with their parents. Nick Lidstone can. As a Technical Account Manager (TAM) at Routeware, Nick spends his days helping cities and waste haulers make the most of their technology — and he’s spent years thinking about where all that waste actually goes.

We sat down with Nick to talk about what’s coming for Rou...

Here’s something most fleet managers know but don’t always say out loud: the routes they’re running today probably made sense five years ago. Back when the service area was consistent. Before that new subdivision got built. Before the fleet changed, or the service day shifted, or the contract expanded, or organics were added, or the operation went from four days a week to fiv...

For over 25 years, Routeware has been the UK’s trusted partner for optimising waste and environmental services. With more than 200 councils and all the major private waste contractors having worked with us, and hundreds of waste and environment professionals using EasyRoute day in, day out, we’ve built something we’re genuinely proud of – software and consultancy services tha...

Roll-off is not a route. That’s the first thing that separates it from every other type of waste collection — and it’s the reason generic scheduling software keeps failing roll-off operators.

A residential route is relatively predictable. The same streets, the same stops, the same containers, every Tuesday. You build the route once, you optimize it, and you run it. The...