How to Reduce Industrial PPE Costs

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is required for many industries, but it shouldn’t increase your overhead costs. Shifting away from disposable PPE and leaning toward reusable PPE can significantly reduce industrial PPE costs annually, improving your overhead.

The Truth About Personal Protective Equipment Costs

PPE is not created equal and comes in a variety of forms, such as aprons, gloves, jackets, and vests. Manufactured to keep employees safe by preventing on-the-job injuries, PPE is required daily in a wide range of industries. If you’re purchasing disposable garments or equipment, your personal protective equipment costs are bound to skyrocket. To reduce your overhead costs, consider investing in quality, reusable PPE.

The Beauty of Reusable PPE

Utilizing reusable PPE not only reduces overhead costs, but it also makes a positive impact on the environment by supporting efforts to achieve an ISO 14001 certification.

For you, the business owner, improving your bottom line is a significant goal, and reusable PPE can help you achieve it. Let’s say you run a manufacturing facility that requires your employees to wear welding aprons daily. The average cost of a disposable apron is $35.42. If 20 employees need an apron every day, requiring you to purchase new inventory monthly, you can potentially spend $708.40 per month on disposable PPE alone. With reusable PPE, you can easily save money on inventory purchases and reduce your overhead costs.

Making a positive environmental impact is another benefit of reusing PPE, preventing:

  • Overflowing Landfills
  • Pollution
  • Natural Habitat Destruction

Our PPE Recycling Program

Keep your equipment in proper working order, save money on costly inventory, and positively impact the environment with Closed Loop Recycling’s PPE recycling program.

CLR has a seven-step process when it comes to laundering and reusing PPE:

  1. Weigh: All dirty PPE is weighed to calculate the waste diversion for reporting purposes.
  2. Sort: We separate and sort your PPE by type.
  3. Clean: PPE is cleaned according to the recommended care instructions.
  4. Metal Detect: Your PPE is inspected through our state-of-the-art metal detector.
  5. Quality Check: We check each PPE, visually inspecting quality control issues, such as tears and burns.
  6. Bundle: PPE is paired with similar items and repackaged to be returned to you.
  7. Report: We send you a PPE Processing Report, so you know what was laundered and what was scrapped.

You can try a test run of our recycling program with a free trial. Check out our options to learn what you’re missing.

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How to Reduce Overhead Costs in Manufacturing

There are many tips and tricks to reduce overhead costs in manufacturing, but one significant way is to implement reusable PPE into your daily operations. When material costs are high, finding ways to use less is crucial. Laundering services help save you money on PPE, such as gloves, aprons, jackets, and safety vests.

At CLR, we offer a wide range of recyclable materials to reduce the amount of waste your business generates. Whether you work with hazardous materials or liquid waste, protective gear is crucial for many industrial manufacturing companies. We ensure that you have all the PPE laundering you need to save money and increase your PPE’s lifespan.

Reduce Waste and Overhead Costs With Closed Loop Recycling

At CLR, our experts live and breathe the mantra, “Whatever it takes,” when it comes to reducing waste and overhead costs. It’s our mission to help you move away from disposing of PPE and steer you toward vendor-managed industrial laundering programs that help the environment and save you money. Our recycling initiatives diverted 3,705,994 pounds of waste from landfills in 2019, resulting in a positive environmental footprint.

To date, we’ve also managed to implement the reuse of 1,967,634 pounds of solid waste and provided cost savings of up to 80% of our customer’s annual purchase of new protective equipment. One of our customers went from spending $260,000 annually on gloves and sleeves to $95,000, which saved them $165,000 every year.

Our PPE recycling program results in impressive cost savings. Before utilizing reusable PPE, one of our customers spent $260,000 annually on gloves and sleeves for their employees. After recycling their PPE for reuse, the customer determined that our program saved them $165,000 annually. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you save money and help the environment with our recycling solutions.