Beyond Recycling Services: Recycling Done Right

Have you looked for ways to reduce your overhead costs at the properties you manage in the Greater Atlanta area? Do you own or manage commercial properties, apartment complexes, condominiums, or office buildings? Have you thought about garbage disposal and recycling expenses? Do you consider those to be fixed utilities or tenant responsibilities? Have you found disposal and recycling costs challenging to control or unpredictable? Property managers face an uphill battle against the rising costs of disposal. Waste and recycling vendors provide a valuable service, but they are for-profit companies. Hauling companies have no reason to minimize their profit margins, so you will have a hard time finding objective advice about your least expensive options. It is a challenge for anyone maintain the best service for their business at the lowest cost. If the local municipality hauls your trash, it may surprise you that you can save money, too. Beyond Recycling Services is an asset to prop...

When you think of the word recycling, what comes to mind? The three R's song? Flashbacks to PBS documentaries from the 1980s? Perhaps you picture a stack of cardboard sitting outside of your favorite restaurant, a bale of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic ready for sale at the local sort facility, or your kitchen recycling bin brimming with aluminum cans (if you do not already, try stomping cans to save trips to the garage.) The word recycle means something unique to each of us, but there is one common belief that most of us share: recycling is the right thing to do for the planet. We  conserve many non-renewable natural resources like oil, trees, and minerals by recycling. Recycling also conserves energy - the energy needed to to melt and mold steel, for instance. These principles energize people like me, who might otherwise be too lazy or busy to separate a shoe box from the chewed-up rubber dinosaur my pug snatched out of my son's toy collection before placing the...