Tenant-Managed Recycling Programs + Varied Collection Cycles

Sounds like you have some great tenants: Q1. Yes...every thing must be included. If the tenants are sorting their own recycles then they must be able to track what they do with them, Shredded paper usually goes thru a third party contractor, start getting the receipts from your tenants. Where are your tenants dropping the recycles...are they selling the aluminium for example...then get the receipts. Q2. The purpose of the audit is two fold, the first is to gain the % of each type of recycle in each of the current recycle streams and to see how 'clean' each stream is and then to find the % of the total which is trash. The second is to create a report showing what the % of trash COULD have been recycled and set up processes to make this happen. Example. Your audit shows that the recycle bins from the tenants contain only 10% of the aluminimum cans from the total stream...as you've found that the trash contains another load of cans which didn't get into the recycle. Your job is then to educate, create new process or 'wave the magic wand' to increase the aluminimum recycle rate to the highest % you can get...hopefully 100%. The trash audit also shows up what items are in the stream that can never be recycled...lets just say for this example that's polystrene. Well you could say that we can't recycle that so it has to stay in the waste stream...but what about going to the tenant who's producing that item and dropping it in the trash...is there a methodology can can be implemented that could encourage the tenant NOT to use that polystrene and then it wouldn't end up in the trash. My guys LOVE this dumpster dive...