SWACO Makes It Easy For Apartment Managers To Start A Recycling Program
Starting a recycling program at your apartment or condominium can be challenging. Besides setting up service with a hauler, you’ll need to educate your residents on what is accepted in the recycling program, but SWACO can help with educational resources that make it easy!
SWACO’s Property Manager’s Toolkit contains free resources like stickers to convert trash dumpsters to recycling dumpsters, permanent aluminum enclosure signs that include images of accepted materials, temporary lobby signs, and posters that you can display permanently. These resources support property managers in the process of educating tenants on what and where to recycle. Click below to learn about all the resources SWACO has for multifamily residences and their managers. Click here for multifamily resources.
Get WastED With SWACO
Download the November podcast to learn about Ohio’s circular economy.
SWACO has launched WastED, a waste and recycling podcast to give voice to many of the innovative sustainability and recycling initiatives taking place across central Ohio. By sharing these stories with listeners, we demystify the recycling process and build confidence in the recycling system.
This month’s episode includes guests from Rumpke Waste & Recycling and Coca-Cola Consolidated chatting about Ohio’s circular economy and what, exactly, happens after families put their metal cans and plastic bottles into their recycling bin each week. Join the conversation. Download the podcast below or listen wherever you stream.
Have You Heard The News? Greasy Pizza Boxes Are Now Recyclable
Cardboard pizza boxes have long been accepted for recycling in Franklin County but thanks to recent advancements in the recycling industry, greasy pizza boxes can also now be recycled. Three billion pizza boxes are used across the country each year, adding up to 600,000 tons of corrugated cardboard that could be collected for recycling. That’s thousands of tons of material that could have been recycled every year but which instead ends up in landfills.
We want to work with pizza shop owners throughout Franklin County to expand the SWACO Recycle Right campaign and help get the word out that pizza boxes are recyclable. Together, we can make a difference. Click below to learn about how you can help for free.
Learn How To Help Get The Word Out For Free
What’s Going On At SWACO?
Caught Blue-Handed
Each November SWACO recognizes Franklin County businesses, schools, and communities that are sustainability super stars. America Recycles Day was November 15th and we celebrated by highlighting a number of local partners who are going above and beyond to divert waste from the landfill and support Ohio’s circular economy. Click here to read their stories.
ECDI’s Organics Collection Pilot Program At The Food Fort
The 70 vendors at ECDI’s incubator kitchen, the Food Fort, generate almost 600 pounds of food waste each week, but have been diverting their organic waste for almost an entire year now thanks to SWACO’s Community Waste Reduction Grant. Click here to learn how it’s been going and whether they’ll continue to do it.
How Bad Is It… To Put Batteries In Your Recycling? (Pretty bad.)
Batteries tossed in your recycling bin or dumpster are a serious fire hazard. Our local Material Recovery Facilities DO NOT WANT these. Learn more about how your business should handle battery disposal and recycling here. Remember, new and used batteries can catch fire if stored in close contact with each other. Batteries should always be stored in storage cases made for this purpose or in the original packaging. Search for local batter recycling options by clicking here.
Upcoming Webinars You Don’t Want to Miss
Managing Food Scraps, From Rescue to Composting
Join this 30-minute webinar on December 18th at noon to learn about SWACO’s resources and the free support available to help businesses navigate food waste diversion. You’ll learn how local businesses can implement sustainable food waste diversion programs and about the challenges and opportunities they may face. SWACO wants to help you start reducing food waste at your business! Register here.
How To Become A Business Recycling Champion
February 19th at noon
This 30-minute webinar will explain the Business Recycling Champions program and how you can receive free indoor recycling containers and apply for six months of service start-up reimbursement when you start a recycling program at your business. SWACO knows that businesses are critical partners in the work to divert waste from the landfill. Get your questions answered and plan to be a champion in 2025! Register here.
Resources To Help With Your Waste Reduction Journey
- Check out SWACO’s Green Holiday video for businesses or download this year’s Green Holiday Guide.
- Looking for a great activity for your next company or school outing? Tour the landfill to learn all about how SWACO disposes of our community’s waste while keeping the environment safe.
- The Ohio Materials Marketplace is a free online platform to find reuse and recycling solutions for waste and by-product materials.
- Repurposed Materials buys surplus or obsolete goods and has a warehouse in Ohio.
