beyond the bin: all things vegas!
Go behind the scenes of Las Vegas’ leading waste and recycling company for construction and demolition debris. From job site insights to sustainability wins, this is where we share how Western Elite helps build a cleaner, faster, and more responsible future — one dumpster at a time.
Do We Have a Trash Problem?
One of the most famous episodes of the original series of Star Trek is called “The Trouble with Tribbles.” It shows the crew of the Enterprise coming into contact with a species of cute, furry balls called Tribbles. Unbeknownst to them, however, the tribbles reproduce...
The Science of Decomposition: Organic vs. Non-Organic
One of the questions that is asked most often when people inquire about a dumpster rental is “what happens to all the trash?” For the environmentally-minded among us, they might worry about what ends up where; will the entire load be tossed onto a landfill, or are...
Creating a Cleaner Community
One of the biggest misconceptions one can have is that their decisions (and the accompanying consequences) exist in a vacuum. Being a part of a family, a community, or a company means that we are always representing those things that we are a part of, and all the good...
Cleaning Up Our Act: Following the Litter Laws
Perhaps Smokey the Bear said it best with his environmental motto, “only you can prevent forest fires.” The message was simple, yet illuminating. There, in the woods outside town, or among the desert shrubbery, or even in the overgrown thickets behind your home, the...
The World Without Us: If Waste Lost Its Management
The prospect of our earth suddenly becoming “liberated” from the influence of humans has long been a conceit of popular fiction and sociopolitical academia. Truly, there is no shortage of books, films, graphic novels, or YouTube videos detailing not only what would...
The Science of Decomposition
It is an incontrovertible fact that nothing in life is immutable; time catches up to us all. Given enough days, months, or years, every object on earth will eventually lose its structure and be returned to its atomic state — just a clump of cells returned to the earth...
How to Fight Food Waste
We can take simple steps to help reduce food waste in our daily lives. With some thoughtful planning and awareness, we can make a difference. In the United States, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that 31% of food produced is wasted. That...
How Waste is Disposed of Around the World
Waste disposal has come a long way over the years. Have you ever heard the phrase, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater,” and wondered what that means? We have the answer to that and more as we take a look at how waste is disposed of around the world, and how...
Littering and Its Effects
There is a theory currently making the rounds in various intellectual circles about the existence of something called “mob mentality” in a community. At its most basic level, the theory can be described as the threshold within each individual of withholding against...
The Facts About Biodegradation
It’s likely that we’ve all heard this common refrain whenever someone wants to downplay the act of littering, “don’t worry; it’s biodegradable.” While we can appreciate the basic concept of biodegradation﹘being that an object is made of materials that will eventually...