Residential
How to Set Up an Apartment/Condominium Recycling Program
Implementing a recycling program at your apartment or condo complex is
easy! Just follow these steps:
1. Establish your recycling potential
2. Design a user-friendly recycling program
- Choose waste haulers based on their responsiveness. Start with the
complex's current hauler or if your contract is expiring and/or your
current hauler can't provide you with recycling services, consider a
local recycler or a different franchise
hauler.
- Select recycling bins
and place them in areas that will minimize misuse or contamination.
Always place recycling containers as close as possible to trash containers.
- Residents can empty bins from inside their units into larger bins
in common areas like laundry rooms or trash rooms.
- To assist in your search for containers, here is a small list
of vendors (PDF: 19K) of indoor and outdoor recycling containers.
Please note that this list is not comprehensive and that the City of
San Diego does not endorse the listed businesses.
- Clearly identify recycling areas with large signs that include pictures
of what can and can't be recycled.
- Place information on bulletin boards and in newsletters.
- Develop a collection plan. How many recycling dumpsters will you need?
Can you replace some of your trash dumpsters with recycling dumpsters?
3. Educate staff and promote the program
- Evaluate the program often. Check for contamination to determine if
more education is needed.
- Provide updates on the program in complex newsletters and bulletin
boards, so residents will know that their efforts are making a difference.
- Submit a press release about your program to local media.
- Apply for recognition for your complex's recycling efforts through
the Environmental Services Department's Annual
Business Recycling Award.
Remember, the more materials you recycle, the lower
your trash collection costs.
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