Multifamily recycling programs: Program data and implementation guidelines

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:6924917

Portland, Oregon, and San Diego, California worked independently, but on similar tracks to implement and study multi-family recycling systems. This report examines the implementation and lessons learned from these programs. Each city adapted the program to fit their local environment. San Diego focussed their outreach on garbage haulers as well as property managers. San Diego worked to promote the participation of the private sector in multifamily recycling and to encourage haulers to duplicate the program with their other multifamily customers. Portland focussed its outreach on the property owners and managers because a new Oregon law requires that landlords provide recycling service and education to all their tenants. The end product in each city was onsite recycling systems and tenant education serving nearly 9,000 multi-family units combined. Newspapers comprised the largest material by volume and weight collected in each city and accounted for the majority of the estimated energy savings in each program. Although recycling is often thought of as being good from an environmental and resource perspective, results from the energy savings analyses show that there is also a considerable energy savings potential from multifamily recycling.

• Research Organization: Urban Consortium for Technology Initiatives (United States). Energy Task Force; Public Technology, Inc., Washington, DC (United States); San Diego Waste Management Dept., CA (United States); Portland Energy Office, OR (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-90CE27504
• OSTI ID: 6924917
• Report Number(s): DOE/CE/27504-3; ON: DE93005609
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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