high rise residential building collect of recyclables

I would suggest: 1) One main garbage room, with space to store, sort recyclables and normal garbage - groundfloor or basement depending on access. 2) Per Floor, assuming each floor has a tee kitchen... 2.1) Bin for normal rubbish - in teekitchen 2.2) Bin for co-mingled plastics, packaging, glass, metals - in tee kitchen 3) In office spaces, paper bins 4) Either dedicated garbage elevator terminating in / next to main garbage room OR x1 garbage shoot for co-mingled recyclables and Paper (using plastic bin liners should keep these seperate); x1 for normal rubbish; for glass ...bring glass down by hand (simply because I imagine a 50 floor fall for anything glass will result in SMASHING). 5) Contract company to pick up a) co-mingled recyclables for off-site processing b) pick up paper waste c) pick up glass waste (maybe with a)) and d) pick up normal rubbish. ...I'm no Architect. I would get some proper reading on how to plan these.

Is there a hauler you can contract with who will take single-stream or comingled garbage from the building, and sort it in an off-site facility? If so, you would simply use a single chute for all waste, including space in the basement to collect it, and haul it off-site.LEED does not require you to segregate recyclables, as long as they can be collected and later recycled.

Tristan, I think you have pointed out a misconception about this credit. So, we do not have to provide separate bins for glass, plastic, paper..etc across the building. Is this right?