E-Waste Business Consulting

You can copy the idea.
You can't copy the playbook.

Landfill to Launch helps you start an electronic-waste pickup business in your own city. Not an idea you could find on Google: the proven playbook, and the months of trial and error, networking, and relationship building behind it, from someone who built one from the ground up.

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59+
residential pickups and counting
2,000+
pounds diverted from landfills
1
signed national B2B partner
★
front-page local-regional newspaper feature

See the live pickup count and pounds diverted at juetttechrescue.org

The part nobody prepares you for

Getting set up is not the hard part. What comes after is.

Landing your website and your first few customers is work, but it is not what stops people. The stretch that stops people is the one after that: you have traction, you are addressing a real gap, but the partnerships and infrastructure that make it compound are not signed yet.

That waiting period is where most people stall. It is also where the money is won or lost, because everything comes down to how you handle the waste you collect. I have been through it, and I help you move through it deliberately instead of by guessing.

Everything you collect goes one of four ways

01

Responsible recycling

Deciding what truly belongs in the recycling stream.

02

Reallocation

Recognizing what is worth routing elsewhere first.

03

Community initiatives

Where doing good and building the brand meet.

04

Liquidation tactics

Moving the right items, at the right moment.

The four channels are obvious. Knowing how to weight them, for your market and for the moment you are in, is not. That balance is the difference between breaking even and compounding, and it is exactly what the Blueprint builds for you.

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The case study

Juett Tech Rescue: the model, proven

Landfill to Launch is not theory. It is built on a business I started, run, and grew in a real market. Juett Tech Rescue is the test case that shows the playbook works.

I built and run Juett Tech Rescue, the first electronic-waste management service in Boulder County, Colorado. The business makes e-waste recycling affordable and convenient through a flat-fee, door-to-door model built to remove the barriers that keep people from recycling electronics.

Eco-Cycle, one of the nation's largest and oldest nonprofit recycling facilities, reached out to me directly to explore a partnership. When the top local processor calls you, that is real demand.

The packages here distill what I learned building this from the ground up.

See Juett Tech Rescue live, with current metrics →

In the first several months, the company has

  • — Completed 41 residential pickups
  • — Diverted more than 1,600 pounds of electronics from local landfills
  • — Earned a front-page feature in the Boulder Daily Camera, a local-regional newspaper
  • — Exhibited at the Boulder Creek Festival through a creatively negotiated vendor arrangement that cut exhibition costs significantly
  • — Registered as a Colorado LLC
  • — Signed a B2B partnership with DRM Worldwide, a national ITAD company that diverts roughly 900,000 pounds of e-waste a year with zero data breaches
  • — Built a partnership pipeline with respected local institutions, including Eco-Cycle and McGuckin Hardware

About

Natalie Juett

Founder, Landfill to Launch Consulting · Chief Rescue Officer, Juett Tech Rescue

I started paying attention to electronic waste when I realized almost no one was targeting it head-on. There is no federal blanket ban on sending electronics to landfill, so the logistics are inconsistent from one state to the next. Even where it is regulated, it often is not addressed directly. And it is the fastest-growing solid waste stream in the world.

That gap is the opportunity. Juett Tech Rescue is how I proved the model in one market. Landfill to Launch is how I help you build it in yours.

The startBuilt it from scratch
Roughly 2 months inFeatured in local news
2 months after thatSigned a B2B with a titan in the industry

What you are really buying

You skip the trial and error.

It took me months to work out how to build my pricing, how to adjust it as the market responded, and how to shape the rest of the business model around it. That holds for every part of this, not just how you handle what you collect. You do not repeat any of it. You start from what already worked, and spend your time building instead of guessing.

How it works

One path. Four steps. You only move up when it makes sense to.

Nothing here is a franchise, and nothing is hourly consulting billed against a clock. It is closer to buying a playbook from someone who has already worked through the trial and error successfully.

01

Qualify Free

A short set of questions about your time, vehicle, schedule, storage, and startup budget. No cost, no commitment. It tells us both whether you are positioned to run this before any money changes hands.

02

Market Feasibility Report

I research your specific market and give you a straight answer, backed by data: can this business work where you are?

03

Startup Blueprint

If the market supports it, I build your full plan to launch and operate, tailored to your area, your economy, and your competition.

04

Ongoing consulting

I stay on as you execute, through the hardest phase: scaling on your own until the right partnerships are ready to sign.

What you receive

Two packages, built to be bought in order.

Start with the Report to test your market. If it comes back green, upgrade to the Blueprint to build the business. Testing your market never costs you extra.

Package One

Market Feasibility Report

Find out whether your market can support this before you invest real time or money.

$450 (range $400–$500)
4–8 hours · yours to keep either way

What is inside

  • Executive summary and a clear go or no-go verdict
  • Regulatory snapshot: your state's landfill rules, data-handling and compliance basics
  • Market & community analysis: population, density, income, homeownership, HOA and condo concentration, best-fit neighborhoods
  • Competitive landscape: existing recycling options, municipal programs, drop-off sites, mobile competitors, and the gaps
  • Customer opportunity: residential, HOA and condo, senior communities, small businesses and organizations
  • Service territory: where to launch, neighborhood priority, and logistics
  • First 90-day opportunity map
  • Final call: green, yellow, or red light

Even a no is valuable. It saves you from pouring months into a market that will not support the model.

Package Two · the full build

Startup Blueprint

Everything in the Feasibility Report, plus the practical roadmap to launch and run it.

$1,200 (range $1,000–$1,250)
10–15 hours · includes a live strategy session

Everything in Package One, plus

  • Launch framework: sequence, website and local search, social, payments, scheduling, 30 and 90-day plans
  • Marketing & acquisition: digital and grassroots, community events, referrals, and targeted density maps of your best demographics
  • Community outreach playbook: target communities, decision-maker contacts, outreach, and answers to common objections
  • Partnership & media outreach: which partners to approach, which to decline, when to sign, and story angles for press
  • Operational workflow: scheduling, route planning, storage, and time management alongside school or work
  • Allocation & profitability framework: how to weight recycling, reallocation, community initiatives, and liquidation for profit, compounding, and liquidity
  • Revenue & pricing model: how to build your pricing, then adjust it as the market responds
  • Lessons learned and the mistakes that slow people down
  • One 60 to 90 minute strategy session, specific to your market

This is the difference between an idea and a business that runs.

Buy the Report first, upgrade to the Blueprint within 30 days, and the Report fee is credited toward the Blueprint. Test your market at low risk, and pay nothing extra to build once it checks out.

Ongoing Strategic Consulting

The scaling-phase help, once you are live: allocation calls, partnership timing, vehicle and storage logistics, and route decisions as your volume grows. This is the part that carries you until the right partnerships are ready.

Hourly, after your session

Start here, free

Qualifying questions

Answer these first, at no cost. They tell us both whether you are positioned to run this before we move into any paid work. Roughly half of your success comes down to your own ability to execute.

1Time. Can you commit around 12 or more hours a week in the early months, for site updates, outreach, marketing, and pickups?
Yes, I can
Some weeks
Not right now
2Vehicle. What do you drive? A truck works, and so does a car if the back seats fold down with room for e-waste.
Truck or SUV
Car, seats fold down
Small trunk only
No reliable vehicle
3Storage. Do you have somewhere to hold collected e-waste, such as a garage, spare room, or a unit you can get?
Yes, I have space
I can arrange it
Not yet
4Startup budget. Do you have a small budget for the basics, such as a website, supplies, and gas?
Yes
Limited, but some
None right now
5Experience. Are you comfortable talking with homeowners and small-business owners face to face?
Yes, I have sales or service experience
Somewhat
Not yet
6Location. Where are you? Include your city and the major surrounding neighborhoods. This is what I research first.
No cost. Nothing is sent until you choose to send it.