2012 State of the C&D Recycling Industry Survey Results · Mid-Atlantic Pacific Coast In which...

Response

Percent

55.3%

16.7%

5.3%

5.3%

3.5%

7.9%

6.1%

President

Other manager

Which of the following best describes your primary job function:

Vice president

Owner/partner

Operations manager or site supervisor

2012 State of the C&D Recycling Industry Survey Results

Corporate/executive officer

Other (please specify)

Answer Options

General manager

Which of the following best describes your primary job function:

Owner/partner

President

Corporate/executive officer

Vice president

General manager

Operations manager or site supervisor

Other manager

Response

Percent

10.5%

16.7%

23.7%

26.3%

7.0%

1.8%

14.0%

In which region is your plant or office located?

Midwest

New England

Mountain


Southeast

Answer Options

Southwest

Mid-Atlantic

Pacific Coast

In which region is your plant or office located?

New England

Mid-Atlantic

Southeast

Midwest

Southwest

Mountain

Pacific Coast

Response

Percent

68.1%

22.4%

0.0%

9.5%

How many locations does your company have?

More than 5

1


4-5

Answer Options

2-3

How many locations does your company have?

1

2-3

4-5

More than 5

Company Founded PercentageBefore 1950 13%1950-1969 7%1970s 7%1980s 15%1990s 22%2000 or later 32%

When was your company founded?


Response

Percent

55.7%

37.4%

5.2%

1.7%

Is your company ownership:

Government agency

Family


Public

Answer Options

Other private (sole proprietor or non-family partnership)

Is your company ownership:

Family

Other private (sole proprietor or non-family partnership)

Public

Government agency

Response

Percent

11.2%

50.9%

26.7%

11.2%

How would you rate the level of construction activity in your region?

Declining

Very healthy and growing


Stagnant

Answer Options

Somewhat healthy but limited growth

How would you rate the level of construction activity in your region?

Very healthy and growing

Somewhat healthy but limited growth

Stagnant

Declining

Response

Percent

43.0%

21.9%

21.9%

13.2%

Which construction segment would you rate as the healthiest in your region? (please

chose only one)

Residential

Highways/infrastructure/public works


Commercial/office/retail

Answer Options

Government/education/health care

Which construction segment would you rate as the healthiest in your region? (please chose only one)

Highways/infrastructure/public works

Government/education/health care

Commercial/office/retail

Residential

Response

Percent

20.2%

28.1%

51.8%

Materials hauling/recycling

Does your company offer:

Demolition


Both

Answer Options

Does your company offer:

Demolition

Materials hauling/recycling

Both

Response

Percent

60.9%

4.3%

17.4%

17.4%

What portion of your demolition business is commercial or non-residential?

0-24%

75-100%


25-49%

Answer Options

50-74%


75-100%

50-74%

25-49%

0-24%

Response

Percent

4.3%

17.4%

13.0%

65.2%

What portion of your demolition business involves projects valued at $1 million or more?

0-24%

75-100%


25-49%

Answer Options

50-74%


75-100%

50-74%

25-49%

0-24%

Response

Percent

4.3%

13.0%

0.0%

82.6%

What percentage of your business if performed outside of your home state?

0-24%

75-100%


25-49%

Answer Options

50-74%


75-100%

50-74%

25-49%

0-24%

Response

Percent

87.0%

4.3%

8.7%

0.0%

0.0%

How many excavators/material handlers do you have in service?

25-34

0-5


11-24

Answer Options

35 or more

6-10


0-5

6-10

11-24

25-34

35 or more

Response

Percent

95.7%

4.3%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

How many front-end loaders do you have in service?

25-34

0-5


11-24

Answer Options

35 or more

6-10


0-5

6-10

11-24

25-34

35 or more

Response

Percent

95.7%

4.3%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

How many skid steer/compact loaders do you have in service?

25-34

0-5


11-24

Answer Options

35 or more

6-10


0-5

6-10

11-24

25-34

35 or more

Response

Percent

100.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

What portion of your revenue is generated from abatement and environmental services?

75-100%

0-24%


50-74%

Answer Options

25-49%


0-24%

25-49%

50-74%

75-100%

Response

Percent

77.3%

9.1%

4.5%

9.1%

What portion of your revenue is generated from scrap metal sales and other recycling

factors?

75-100%

0-24%


50-74%

Answer Options

25-49%

What portion of your revenue is generated from scrap metal sales and other recycling factors?

0-24%

25-49%

50-74%

75-100%

Response

Percent

13.6%

18.2%

18.2%

27.3%

9.1%

0.0%

13.6%

What is your activity level so far in 2012 compared to 2011?

Flat

More than 10% growth

6-10% decrease


less than 5% growth

Answer Options

More than 5% decrease

5-10% growth




5-10% growth

less than 5% growth

Flat


6-10% decrease


Response

Percent

21.7%

30.4%

21.7%

26.1%

How important is the revenue stream from recycling to your future capital expenditures

decisions?

No impact

Very important


Somewhat important

Answer Options

Important

How important is the revenue stream from recycling to your future capital expenditures decisions?

Very important

Important

Somewhat important

No impact

Response

Percent

0.0%

36.4%

63.6%

Recycling facility (not in-house)

To where do you haul your mixed material loads?

Our own recycling facility


Transfer station/landfill

Answer Options





Response

Percent

86.4%

9.1%

4.5%

Through a scrap broker

To whom do you sell scrap metal?

A scrap processing yard


Directly to steel mills and other consumers

Answer Options





Response

Percent

4.3%

13.0%

65.2%

34.8%

How are you currently handling concrete rubble? (check all that apply)

It remains part of our mixed C&D materials

We run our own crushing plant(s)


We haul it to nearby fixed crushing plants

Answer Options

We hire crushing subcontractors as needed

0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

70.0%


We hire crushing subcontractors as

needed




Response

Percent

72.4%

10.3%

13.8%

3.4%

0.0%

How many containers do you own?

501-1,000

Fewer than 100


201-500

Answer Options

More than 1,000

101-200


Fewer than 100

101-200

201-500

501-1,000

More than 1,000

Response

Percent

26.9%

30.8%

0.0%

23.1%

19.2%



Land Developers/Land Clearance

Answer Options

Retail/Residential

Demolition Contractors

What types of customers do you serve? (check all that apply)

Industrial/Warehouse Locations

Construction Contractors






Retail/Residential

Response

Percent

25.0%

21.4%

10.7%

42.9%

What percentage of your customers request recycling?

91-100%

0-49%


75-90%

Answer Options

50-74%


0-49%

50-74%

75-90%

91-100%

Response

Percent

46.2%

38.5%

34.6%

38.5%

76.9%

26.9%

23.1%

Concrete/brick/block

Drywall

What materials does your company handle? (check all that apply)

Scrap wood

Mixed materials

Asphalt shingles


Asphalt


Answer Options

Metals

0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

70.0%

80.0%

90.0%


Response

Percent

54.5%

9.1%

45.5%

0.0%

27.3%

9.1%

If you handle or process wood, which markets do you sell into? (check all that apply)

MDF or other building products

Boiler fuel

Reusable/salvaged timber and lumber


Mulch/landscaping products

Answer Options

Animal bedding

Wood stove pellets


0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

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Response

Percent

35.3%

29.4%

16.2%

19.1%


0-24%

75-100%


25-49%

Answer Options

50-74%


75-100%

50-74%

25-49%

0-24%

Response

Percent

1.5%

13.2%

11.8%

73.5%


0-24%

75-100%


25-49%

Answer Options

50-74%


75-100%

50-74%

25-49%

0-24%

Response

Percent

0.0%

7.1%

14.3%

78.6%


0-24%

75-100%


25-49%

Answer Options

50-74%


75-100%

50-74%

25-49%

0-24%

Response

Percent

70.8%

16.7%

8.3%

0.0%

4.2%


25-34

0-5


11-24

Answer Options

35 or more

6-10


0-5

6-10

11-24

25-34

35 or more

Response

Percent

88.9%

4.2%

4.2%

0.0%

2.8%


25-34

0-5


11-24

Answer Options

35 or more

6-10


0-5

6-10

11-24

25-34

35 or more

Response

Percent

88.6%

5.7%

2.9%

1.4%

1.4%


25-34

0-5


11-24

Answer Options

35 or more

6-10


0-5

6-10

11-24

25-34

35 or more

Response

Percent

85.5%

10.1%

4.3%

0.0%


75-100%

0-24%


50-74%

Answer Options

25-49%


0-24%

25-49%

50-74%

75-100%

Response

Percent

48.6%

26.4%

2.8%

22.2%

What portion of your revenue is generated from scrap metal sales and other recycling

factors?

75-100%

0-24%


50-74%

Answer Options

25-49%

What portion of your revenue is generated from scrap metal sales and other recycling factors?

0-24%

25-49%

50-74%

75-100%

Response

Percent

18.1%

25.0%

11.1%

34.7%

5.6%

1.4%

4.2%


Flat


6-10% decrease


less than 5% growth

Answer Options


5-10% growth




5-10% growth

less than 5% growth

Flat


6-10% decrease


Response

Percent

58.3%

25.0%

12.5%

4.2%

How important is the revenue stream from recycling to your future capital expenditures

decisions?

No impact

Very important


Somewhat important

Answer Options

Important

How important is the revenue stream from recycling to your future capital expenditures decisions?

Very important

Important

Somewhat important

No impact

Response

Percent

38.2%

36.8%

25.0%






Answer Options





Response

Percent

77.5%

8.5%

14.1%






Answer Options





Response

Percent

33.9%

16.1%

48.4%

16.1%






Answer Options

We hire crushing subcontractors as needed

0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%


We hire crushing subcontractors as

needed




Response

Percent

77.3%

3.0%

7.6%

7.6%

4.5%


501-1,000

Fewer than 100


201-500

Answer Options

More than 1,000

101-200


Fewer than 100

101-200

201-500

501-1,000

More than 1,000

Response

Percent

46.7%

10.0%

8.3%

11.7%

23.3%




Answer Options

Retail/Residential










Retail/Residential

Response

Percent

54.0%

15.9%

4.8%

25.4%


91-100%

0-49%


75-90%

Answer Options

50-74%


0-49%

50-74%

75-90%

91-100%

Response

Percent

75.8%

69.4%

58.1%

67.7%

80.6%

43.5%

46.8%

Concrete/brick/block

Drywall


Scrap wood

Mixed materials

Asphalt shingles


Asphalt


Answer Options

Metals

0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

70.0%

80.0%

90.0%


Response

Percent

35.0%

5.0%

50.0%

12.5%

10.0%

57.5%


MDF or other building products

Boiler fuel

Reusable/salvaged timber and lumber


Mulch/landscaping products

Answer Options

Animal bedding

Wood stove pellets


0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

70.0%

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Response

Percent

31.6%

31.6%

25.3%

69.6%

49.4%

75.9%

25.3%

54.4%

Grinding/shredding equipment

Mobile shear, pulverizer or multi-processor attachment

Which types of processing, sorting and material handling equipment do you own? (check

all that apply)

Excavators/hydraulic material handlers

Mixed materials sorting equipment

Skid steer loaders


Concrete crushing equipment

Breaker/hammer attachment

Answer Options

Large wheel loaders

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0%

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Which types of processing, sorting and material handling equipment do you own? (check all that apply)

Response

Percent

28.6%

27.4%

16.7%

20.2%

7.1%

How important would you estimate green building practices such as the LEED rating

system have been as a source of business for your company in the past five years?

No impact

Very important


Not important

Answer Options

Cannot measure/do not know

Somewhat important

How important would you estimate green building practices such as the LEED rating system have been as a source of business for your company in the past

five years?

Very important

Somewhat important

Not important

No impact

Cannot measure/do not know

Response

Percent

40.5%

59.5%


Do you offer a LEED scorecard to verify a recycling rate to your customers?

Answer Options

Yes

No

Do you offer a LEED scorecard to verify a recycling rate to your customers?

Yes

No

Response

Percent

46.7%

33.3%

17.8%

6.7%

13.3%

24.4%

35.6%

To which of the following trade associations do you belong? (check all that apply)

NSWMA/EIA

National Demolition Association

AGC


SWANA

Answer Options

ISRI (Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries)

Construction Materials Recycling Association

State recycling association(s)

0.0% 5.0%

10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% 30.0% 35.0% 40.0% 45.0% 50.0%

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To which of the following trade associations do you belong? (check all that apply)

Response

Percent

14.5%

21.7%

39.8%

13.3%

10.8%

How does your 2012 equipment budget compare to 2011?

Decreased slightly

Increased significantly


No change

Answer Options

Decreased insignificantly

Increased slightly

How does your 2012 equipment budget compare to 2011?

Increased significantly

Increased slightly

No change

Decreased slightly

Decreased insignificantly

Response

Percent

23.9%

19.7%

19.7%

50.7%

36.6%

31.0%

40.8%

9.9%

16.9%

15.5%

15.5%

40.8%


Collection/other vehicles

Sorting systems/screens

Robotic demolition tools

Answer Options


Loaders

Truck scales

Concrete crushers

Attachments

Please check off any categories that you are considering investing in or upgrading during

2012 or 2013

Containers/trucks

Excavators/material handlers

Software

Grinders/shredders

Compact loaders/skid steers

0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

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Please check off any categories that you are considering investing in or upgrading during 2012 or 2013

Gri

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Response

Percent

41.5%

32.9%

13.4%

6.1%

6.1%

How many full time employees do you have?

51-100

1-5


21-50

Answer Options

More than 100

6-20

How many full time employees do you have?

1-5

6-20

21-50

51-100

More than 100

Response

Percent

4.9%

36.6%

42.7%

15.9%

What is the average hourly wage paid to your employees?

Greater than $21

Less than $10


$16-$20

Answer Options

$11-$15

What is the average hourly wage paid to your employees?

Less than $10

$11-$15

$16-$20

Greater than $21

Response

Percent

72.6%

27.4%


Do you feel your region offers enough qualified workers to satisfy your business needs?

Answer Options

Yes

No

Do you feel your region offers enough qualified workers to satisfy your business needs?

Yes

No

Response

Percent

20.2%

13.1%

9.5%

6.0%

26.2%

15.5%

9.5%

What is your company's estimated 2012 gross revenue?

$751,000 - $1 million

Less than $250,000

$2.6 million - $5 million


$501,000 - $750,000

Answer Options

$1.1 million - $2.5 million

$251,000 - $500,000

$5.1 million or more

What is your company's estimated 2012 gross revenue?

Less than $250,000

$251,000 - $500,000

$501,000 - $750,000

$751,000 - $1 million

$1.1 million - $2.5 million

$2.6 million - $5 million

$5.1 million or more

Response

Percent

10.8%

9.6%

14.5%

22.9%

27.7%

14.5%Decrease


6% to 10% growth

Answer Options

Flat

11% to 15% growth

What is your projected 2012 revenue compared to 2011's revenue?

1% - 5% growth

16% growth or greater

What is your projected 2012 revenue compared to 2011's revenue?

16% growth or greater

11% to 15% growth

6% to 10% growth

1% - 5% growth

Flat

Decrease

Response

Percent

44.0%

29.3%

17.3%

9.3%

What is your company's gross profit margin?

31% or higher

Less than 10%


21-30%

Answer Options

11-20%

What is your company's gross profit margin?

Less than 10%

11-20%

21-30%

31% or higher

Response

Percent

55.7%

41.8%

29.1%

50.6%

Which factors have limited your company's revenue in 2012? (check all that apply)

Competition from regional competitors

Lack of bid opportunities/activity


Competition from national competitors

Answer Options


Restricted access to capital or bonding

0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

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Which factors have limited your company's revenue in 2012? (check all that apply)

Rating Average

3.33

6.29

4.14

3.42

4.55

6.03

5.05

4.34

5.32


Competition from local firms

Local, state and federal regulation

Answer Options

Health care costs


Competition from national firms

Labor costs

Please rank your company's greatest challenges over the next three years in order of

importance or impact (1 being the greatest).

Fuel and energy costs

Business taxes

Lack of construction activity

Labor availability

0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00

Lack of construction activity

Competition from national firms

Competition from local firms

Fuel and energy costs

Health care costs

Labor availability

Labor costs

Local, state and federal regulation

Business taxes

Please rank your company's greatest challenges over the next three years in order of importance or impact (1 being the greatest).

Rating Average

2.31

3.18

3.48

2.66

3.35

5.56

6.46

Please rank your company's largest expense (1 being the largest expense)

Fuel and energy

Employee compensation

Marketing/advertising


Equipment maintenance

Answer Options

Insurance

Equipment acquisition

Association dues and subscriptions

0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00

Employee compensation

Equipment acquisition

Equipment maintenance

Fuel and energy

Insurance

Marketing/advertising

Association dues and subscriptions

Please rank your company's largest expense (1 being the largest expense)

Response

Percent

31.2%

27.3%

18.2%

1.3%

3.9%

18.2%

What regional, national or global economic issue are you most concerned about?

Energy and resource scarcity

Regional economy

Increased regulatory scrutiny


National debt

Answer Options

Economic power shifting to Asia

National economy


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