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The “Company Profile” is an Earth911.com series highlighting consumer goods and services making a difference through product stewardship and recycling. Products and services featured do not pay for placement and are not endorsed by http://www.earth911.com/.
For many apartment residents, the inconvenience of recycling – separating, storing and hauling – is often a main deterrent to keeping recyclables out of the trash.
When Jonathan Hildreth, owner of Waste Management Concierge, founded his business in 2006, he sought to offer a premium recycling service that would change all of that.
Making Recycling Rewarding
Hildreth’s company picks up recycling and trash five, six or seven nights a week from the residences it works with, making it easy for every tenant to recycle as much as possible using one bag for everything. Here’s how it works:
- Property managers sign up for the concierge service and determine how many nights a week they would like recycling and trash collected.
- Waste Management Concierge provides each residence with recycling information and separate bags for trash and single-stream recycling (aluminum, plastic, glass, cardboard and paper can all be placed in one bag).
- Residents leave their recycling and trash outside their doors for an evening collection between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.
- Waste Management Concierge brings the trash to the community’s dumpster and transports all recycling back to its sorting facility in a small truck where it is weighed and separated.
- The communities that recycle the most receive incentives such as gift cards and parties that are paid for by the funds generated when recyclables are sold.
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