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Re: Recycling Indifference in Multi Residential Buildings
2012-12-21 11:10:50 UTC
Ruben, as many have already said, thank you so much for sharing your considerable knowledge. Already it has really helped to work through some of the problems that we've been facing when it comes to the challenges of recycling in multi-residential buildings.
As Adam mentioned, the video you posted was excellent and we certainly plan to use some of your points when developing our multi-res approach.
If you have any material that you think would be of use to us, my email is [email protected]
Thank you again for your contribution, we really appreciate it!
Diedre Beintema
Organic Waste Leader
City of Hamilton Public Works
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Re: Recycling Indifference in Multi Residential Buildings
2012-12-19 15:41:51 UTC
Hi Karen,
It's interesting that you are struggling with the same problem in a smaller town as we are in Hamilton. We are also trying to make face to face contact with superintendents in the hope that it will increase their level of engagement with our recycling program and we've had some very positive feedback from them but talking to tenants has been more of a struggle. We've decided to use paper surveys delivered to tenant's mailboxes or doors to try gather some responses but most of the replies tend to be from people who are already recycling while we want to capture the interest of people who aren't. Do you offer your supers and tenants any sort of incentives to encourage interest? We're also considering sending out a regular recycling newletter specifically targeting multires, do you have any experience or thoughts on that approach?
Diedre Beintema
Organic Waste Leader
City of Hamilton Public Works
Canada -
Recycling Indifference in Multi Residential Buildings
2012-12-18 14:59:14 UTC
I am working on a project which is looking to increase waste diversion among people living in apartment buildings. A key issue we keep running into when we conduct tenant surveys is that people will simply check every possible answer to questions such as "Why do you recycle?" As a result, we are struggling to understand which community norms and attitudes to appeal to when developing new promotional material for our multires recycling program. We suspect that part of the problem is that many tenants are simply indifferent towards recycling. Does anyone have any thoughts or solutions to this problem?
Diedre Beintema
Organic Waste Leader
City of Hamilton Public Works
Canada
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