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Resources to Help You Build Better Waste Systems

Whether you’re working in multifamily housing, commercial environments, municipal operations, or resource recovery, you’ll find practical guidance to improve waste, recycling, and organics management. Explore proven strategies to increase participation, reduce contamination, and build systems that deliver stronger long-term results. Access expert insights, webinars, tools, and resources designed to help your programs succeed.

Sectors:

Multifamily

Explore practical tools and resources designed to help create cleaner, more effective waste and recycling systems in shared residential settings, with guidance focused on participation, contamination reduction, and long-term performance.

Designing multifamily waste systems for consistent performance

A practical guide to improving participation, reducing contamination, and creating more manageable waste and recycling systems across shared residential environments, including the equal-choice test and a five-minute diagnostic.
Guidance

FAQ: Multifamily Waste Diversion

This FAQ addresses common questions about multifamily waste and recycling systems, covering resident behavior, infrastructure, operations, material quality, outreach, accountability, and strategies for achieving long-term performance.
FAQ

Why multifamily Recycling Fails and how cities are rethinking the system

Recycling in apartment buildings often fails not because residents don’t care, but because systems are poorly designed. Experts from the University of Guelph, Boston Housing Authority, and the City of SeaTac share what works in multifamily recycling.
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Municipal

Gain a deeper understanding of the factors that influence performance across public-space waste systems through our collection of practical insights, guidance resources, and supporting materials.

Designing municipal waste systems for consistent performance

A practical overview of how servicing strategies, route design and demand‑led prioritization shape performance in public‑space waste systems – and how better alignment helps teams focus effort where it matters most.
Guidance

FAQ: Public Space Waste
and Recycling

This FAQ addresses common questions about public space waste systems, with a focus on cleanliness, recycling quality, vermin and wildlife access, safety, streetscape value, and long-term performance.
FAQ

Downtown Trash: Lessons from Real-World Operations

Drawing on real-world downtown experiences, this webinar highlights how thoughtful bin design, strategic placement, and visible maintenance deliver better results by improving the entire waste management system – not just the containers.
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Commercial

Find practical resources to help strengthen waste management across shared commercial environments, with guidance focused on improving control, reducing misuse, and supporting more efficient day-to-day operations.

Designing commercial waste systems for consistent performances

A practical guide to improving control, reducing misuse, and lowering operational cost across shared commercial environments, including the access-control test, a five-minute diagnostic, and key principles for stronger day-to-day performance.
Guidance

FAQ: Commercial and Downtown Waste Containment

This FAQ addresses common questions about commercial and downtown waste containment, covering security, cleanliness, recycling performance, pest prevention, shared-use, and strategies for supporting long-term site and public realm performance.

FAQ

Rethinking Downtown Commercial Waste Management

This webinar explores why downtown commercial waste challenges often stem from containment, access, and infrastructure issues rather than collection alone, and highlights proven solutions from experts in Athens-Clarke County and The Rodent Man Consulting.
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Building Better Systems: Infrastructure That Drives Recycling Behavior

Why do some recycling and composting programs succeed while others fail? This webinar explores how infrastructure design drives behaviour change, particularly for organics and drop-off programs, with practical insights from Washington, D.C. and Connecticut.
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Circular Cities in Action – Reimagining Waste Management

Explores how cities can redesign waste systems to support circular economies, reduce environmental impact, and improve urban living – highlighting the role of containerization, localized reuse networks, and community-based composting initiatives.
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Recovery

Access practical guidance and supporting resources to help improve recovery performance across waste, recycling, and organics systems, with a focus on infrastructure design, access management, and operational effectiveness.

Designing recovery systems for participation and material quality

A practical guide to specifying recovery systems that maximise participation and improve material quality, structuring access, and improving day-to-day recovery performance across organics, recycling, and wider drop-off systems
Guidance

FAQ: Communal Drop-Off Recovery Systems

This FAQ addresses the most common practical questions about shared-use drop-off systems, focusing on the key considerations for successful design, rodent-resistance, accessibility, servicing and maintenance, and long-term success.
FAQ

Building Better Systems: Infrastructure That Drives Recycling Behavior

Why do some recycling and composting programs succeed while others fail? This webinar explores how infrastructure design drives behaviour change, particularly for organics and drop-off programs, with practical insights from Washington, D.C. and Connecticut.
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Expanding Organics Access Across Communities

This webinar explores how Ann Arbor, Princeton, and Ridgewood are expanding food scrap recycling through secure, well-managed drop-off programs that increase access, reduce contamination, encourage long-term participation, and improve operational efficiency.
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Food Waste Drop-Offs in Action

Communities across North America are showing food waste drop-off programs can achieve high participation and low contamination through convenient locations, secure access, and education. Case studies demonstrated drop-off as as scalable, cost-effective alternative to curbside organics collection.
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Circular Cities in Action – Reimagining Waste Management

Explores how cities can redesign waste systems to support circular economies, reduce environmental impact, and improve urban living – highlighting the role of containerization, localized reuse networks, and community-based composting initiatives.
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Empowering Communities to Compost

Explore how innovative composting initiatives and organic waste drop-off systems are helping communities increase diversion, reduce waste, and improve sustainability. With expert insights and success stories, this webinar offers guidance for launching or expanding composting programs.
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