[GreenYes] Re: Getting Haulers to Recycle More

[<Christine.McCoy@no.address>]

Interestingly enough we just had a meeting on this topic in Northern 
Virginia today - specific to multifamily recycling. We had four of the big 
haulers in the area on a panel. In short, they are reluctant to do 
anything other than to provide the collection services. A least one seems 
to be making an effort to provide outreach education information to their 
customers...but then it just goes to the property managers and then 
perhaps no further.

However, our new mandatory commercial recycling program requires haulers 
to provide their commercial customers with information that essentially 
will help calculate their recycling rate. To some extent I'm letting the 
haulers off the hook because we will have a calculator built into our 
reporting system that will kick out an estimate, but at least it makes the 
haulers more beholden to providing us more accurate data for the aggregate 
waste vs. recycling numbers they need to provide each year AND it provides 
a feedback loop to their customers in terms of how much (or how little) 
they are recycling.

If anyone would like to talk to me about this in more detail, I would be 
happy to share info. Let's face it, there is no real incentive for haulers 
to recycle more...so they aren't going to go out of their way to help 
educate folks except in the most cursory of ways.

Christine McCoy
Solid Waste Planner
City of Alexandria

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