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Re: Apartment Setting Recycling
2011-10-05 13:41:48 UTC
Hi Bill,
We used small plastic indoor mini-bins to collect recyclables at home for our multi-family recycling program in Culver City (in LA) where space is pretty tight. The mini-bins were very popular among residents but we weren't able to distribute one to every participant due to cost. So we also gave out recycling totes that can be used to collect newspapers and smaller recyclables and that's worked very well among our participating complexes as well (our newspaper collection went up too!). Compared with the baseline of 85.33 tons in April, total tonnage of recyclables rose 18% by Sept to 100.45 tons following our outreach and distribution of outdoor site signs that showed what can and can't be recycled to make it easy for residents to recycle properly. One complex's recycling has increased so much that it has already reduced its trash pick-ups to twice a week from 3x, saving on collection costs since trash collection costs 4.5x that of recycling collection costs. I would say that combining the mini-bins with other prompts like the outdoor site signs was also key to make it as easy for residents to recycle as possible. Check out our program's website at www.culvercity.org/recycle for more information. I've attached images of our mini-bins, recycling totes and site signs.
Cheers,
Namju Cho
[email protected]
S. Groner Associates
www.sga-inc.net
NamjuĀ Cho
SGA
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Re: Research on Prevention of Litter
2011-05-25 15:19:12 UTC
check out thefuntheory.com for innovative ways to get people to change behavior towards sustainability.
NamjuĀ Cho
SGA
United States
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