Waste facilities are changing across rural and regional Australia, often driven by necessity rather than design. Site layouts are evolving, workloads are shifting, and staff are increasingly required to move between functions rather than remain in a gatehouse or office. Waste data collection has largely been treated as a gatehouse function; a moment in time where loads are declared, assessed and recorded. But on many sites today, the gatehouse might not be able to collect the best data. Loads arrive covered, customer queues fluctuate, inspection opportunities are limited and staff judgement often continues beyond the initial interaction. Solutions like Cooee Data are part of this shift. Not because they’re complex, but because they acknowledge how sites operate.
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