On Tuesday, July 15 at 3:00 PM ET, David Boardman, Founder and CEO of EveryPoint, will present at the Construction & Demolition Recycling Association's Innovations & Advancement Spotlight. The virtual session is for CDRA members and the broader C&D recycling community, and the topic is one we've spent a lot of time on: how iPhone stockpile measurement changes the math for recyclers.

Stockpile Reports® serves customers across aggregates, ready-mix, asphalt, government, forestry, and landscape materials. C&D recycling sits right in the middle of that mix — and recyclers face a measurement problem that doesn't get talked about often enough.

The problem we'll be talking about

C&D recyclers sit on millions of dollars of inventory in piles of recycled concrete, asphalt, wood, and metal. But most yards still measure by eyeballing the stockpile or walking it with a wheel. Quarterly surveyor visits and drone flights are expensive, weather-dependent, and out of date by the time the report lands.

The downstream effects are familiar to anyone who runs a yard. Scale-house tickets and physical inventory rarely reconcile. Finance teams book year-end estimates that auditors flag. Sales over- or under-commits material. Crushing schedules get set by feel rather than turnover data. And somewhere on every site, someone is still climbing a pile to come back with a number.

Three places this changes the math

For C&D recyclers, iPhone stockpile measurement changes the math in three places.

Inventory. Quarterly measurement becomes weekly — or daily — without adding headcount. Finance, sales, and operations finally work from the same number, and capital that was hiding in misestimated piles is freed for the parts of the business that need it.

Safety. Nobody has to climb a pile to count it. A yard worker walks around the pile with an iPhone and the measurement is captured in minutes.

Compliance and ESG. Documented, auditable diversion volumes are a growing ask from regulators and downstream customers. "We think it's about 40,000 tons" doesn't survive scrutiny anymore. Every Stockpile Reports measurement is timestamped and stored, creating an auditable trail and the kind of trend data C&D operators have never had before.

What we'll cover

We'll keep the session concrete:

  • What an accurate stockpile measurement looks like when the capture device is an iPhone instead of a drone or a survey crew.
  • What recyclers have done with the data once they have it — the inventory, safety, and compliance shifts above, drawn from how our customers actually work.
  • What it takes to get a yard from "we'll guess" to "we measured it yesterday" — the practical adoption path, not a product demo.

We'll save deeper questions for follow-up conversations after the session.

Why this matters to the recycling industry

Precision measurement has historically been locked behind survey crews and drone pilots. That cost structure made it a quarterly exercise at best — and for many yards, an annual one. Putting a measurement-grade tool on a phone that's already in every yard worker's pocket changes who can measure, how often, and how reliably the number can be defended.

That's the case we're making to the CDRA community on July 15, and we're grateful to CDRA staff for the invitation to bring it to their members.

How to attend

The Innovations & Advancement Spotlight is a virtual program for CDRA members and the broader C&D recycling community. Registration details are available through the CDRA at cdrecycling.org or by calling 866-758-4721. If you'd like to talk to us directly before or after the session, request a Stockpile Reports demo and we'll be in touch.

Every Pile, Any Time®.