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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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GreenYes" group. To post to this group, send email to GreenYes@no.address To unsubscribe from this group, send email to GreenYes-unsubscribe@no.address For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- |
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