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Garbage in Chute Room
The first thing I see is a small chute room with a very large bag of garbage sitting in front of the chute, taking up most of the chute room space. The picture indicates to me that whoever is leaving the bag in the chute room is too lazy to take the bag to the larger bins available for the building. The other thing it tells me is that this person is also too lazy to separate their garbage from actual garbage and items that could be recycled.
With the problems of waste management today (i.e. cost of shipping garbage to landfill, etc.), it is so important that people starting re-educating themselves to divert from garbage into recycling efforts. So long as the proper facilities are available at a residential building, the problem should not exist if people will just change their thinking around what is garbage and what is recyclable. They would be surprised how much is actually recyclable and how it will lessen the amount of garbage going out of that building. This will, in the end run, represent a cost savings to the building, and to the positive environmental impact overall.
Some of the best ways of changing this thinking are providing motivating information to tenants and ensuring that the proper recycling facilities are in place and making sure that tenants know where these facilities exist. Then, you just have to hope that a little healthy peer pressure will have the desired affect on those tenants still too lazy to participate!
Garbage in Chute Room
The first thing I see is a small chute room with a very large bag of garbage sitting in front of the chute, taking up most of the chute room space. The picture indicates to me that whoever is leaving the bag in the chute room is too lazy to take the bag to the larger bins available for the building. The other thing it tells me is that this person is also too lazy to separate their garbage from actual garbage and items that could be recycled.
With the problems of waste management today (i.e. cost of shipping garbage to landfill, etc.), it is so important that people starting re-educating themselves to divert from garbage into recycling efforts. So long as the proper facilities are available at a residential building, the problem should not exist if people will just change their thinking around what is garbage and what is recyclable. They would be surprised how much is actually recyclable and how it will lessen the amount of garbage going out of that building. This will, in the end run, represent a cost savings to the building, and to the positive environmental impact overall.
Some of the best ways of changing this thinking are providing motivating information to tenants and ensuring that the proper recycling facilities are in place and making sure that tenants know where these facilities exist. Then, you just have to hope that a little healthy peer pressure will have the desired affect on those tenants still too lazy to participate!