What's the first step to take to get the apartment complex I live in to recycle?

Question

Hi, I've been thinking a lot about the environment because of my child and possible one day grandchildren and so on. My apartment complex does not recycle and I don't understand why. I want to know what I can do to get things started. I want our community to start recycling. I mean, I know it's a pain in the but to be organized but it's worth it for Earth and future generations. I feel like no one else has ever said anything before and ppl here are real disgusting...things need to change BIG TIME before it's too late.

Answer 1

Are you in th UK?  I approached my local council and asked for a mini recycling centre to be installed by our bin store.  It took about 6 months but it is there now and thankfully it is being used.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Apartment complexes are atrocious for that, really you should talk to the waste management company that deals with the apartment complex, if they don't have a recycling program, there's not a whole lot you can do, because unless your complex is willing to raise rent to deal with it themselves, and your fellow tenants are willing to pay more rent for it, it isn't going to happen.

Once you have found out if your waste management has recycling, which most do, then talk to the management of your apartment complex, to see if they will implement it.  sometimes it will cost more as well.  You may have to be asking your fellow tenants to pay more rent regardless.

So first, contact your waste management facility, and then contact the management of your apartment complex, and then start a petition around your complex.  Those are my thoughts.

Answer 5

maybe they don`t want to recycle. maybe you should find out be for sticking your nose where it is not wanted

Answer 6

First I suggest you contact your local government, the department that handles the waste disposal. Then after getting answers from them as to why the complex does not recycle, you will know what and where to go next.

Should you not get any help in your efforts, contacting the media is a real good way to get things moving. Newspaper articles and stories on the evening news often times get the attention of those in positions to get things going in the right direction. Should you get no response still, do not give up. Placing placards around town asking why not re-cycle will defiantly get attention.

It is not easy to affect change, so good luck and hang strong.

Answer 7

Depending on where you live, it may be against the law not to recycle.  Check your local laws on recycling and speak with the property manager/superintendent/landlord.  If you have to, contact the sanitation department or building inspectors and inform them about the situation.  The landlord can be fined for not recycling if it's the law.  You can do this anonymously if your're concerned.

Answer 8

I think you ave a really good idea...just have to put it into action.

The first step is doing recycling your self. Once you figure out the best easiest way a person in your apartment building can do that, then you might try encouraging your neighbors to get interested in doing the same thing. If you know how to do it well, and with the least amount of effort, then you can teach others how to do the same thing. Make up a questionnaire, explaining how and why you are recycling and ask people if they would like to learn more about how to recycle. Hang it on people's door k***s...

Be prepared to do it more than once, people like to be in their same old routines, and are resisitant to change, this means you can't expect them to change overnight... unless there is an emergency. Chip away at it, I'll bet you can get a small group doing it, and then they can help you get more people.

Remember the snow ball effect. The more you roll it the bigger it gets...but you have to make the first little small snowball and start pushing it. Once you get a core of people together then it will get bigger faster. The thing is you have to start.

Sit at your PC and type up all the reasons and ideas you can think of for and about recycling...from those ideas design a questionnaire....print out the questionnaire & then go and hang the questionnaire on apartment doors... ask people if they would like to learn more about HOW to recycle and so forth, if they would like to join you in the effort. Start a recyclers club. Be upbeat. Make it fun.

Again I think you have a really good idea...do it!