June 3, 2026
10:30AM - 11:30AM

Environment Track: Water & Waste

Using AI tools to Assist with Your Waste Management Program

Speaker: Sean Easton

EH&S professionals often assume responsibility, and the related workload, for multiple roles. Moreover, each of these roles typically requires a tedious manual effort to document regulatory compliance with governing agencies, as well as perform financial due diligence and support for operational related spend.  Corporate budgets rarely approve the expense for the added full-time employees needed to assist with these required clerical tasks, forcing the EH&S professional to spend valuable time and effort on manual data entry and spreadsheet management. 

Industrial and hazardous waste management programs, including waste vendor management, are particularly cumbersome and tedious in this regard.  Managing multiple waste vendor relationships to service your various waste streams, often from a varying number of waste generating locations, requires using several third-party systems to capture all the waste data that is ultimately needed for compliance reporting and cost management.  Furthermore, ensuring your waste data and documentation matches the information submitted to the e-Manifest System by your waste vendors, now requires the use of yet another system to successfully manage a comprehensive industrial and hazardous waste management program.

In this session, you will learn about emerging AI-enabled applications that streamline and centralize this entire effort.  We will discuss tools that automate nearly all the manual clerical effort, centralize your waste program data no matter how many generating locations, waste streams, and vendors, and provide EH&S professionals complete transparency with waste volumes and vendor costs.