collection freqeuncy question

[Blair Pollock]

Hi Joe, at some point, both Milwaukee WI and Nashville TN tried the once a month routine, I think it failed miserably for a whole host of reasons - snow days, holidays, out of town that ONE DAY A MONTH, etc.  and both went away from it. Perhaps their City Recycling coordinators can give you the gory details.

Blair Pollock

 

Hi all,
 
“I received a question this morning and ask for your insight. If recycling collection is reduced from every other week to once per month what are the positive and negative effects? Specifically on participation, amount of material collected, costs for collection, tipping fees, revenues from selling recyclable materials, etc. In other words, would it overall save money to do this?”
 
Can anyone point me in the direction on collection frequency studies?
 
Thank you for your assistance.
 
Joe
 
Joseph Van Rossum
Recycling Specialist & Director
UW-Extension - Solid & Hazardous Waste Education Center
610 Langdon Street, Room 323
Madison WI 53703
phone 608-262-0936
www.uwex.edu/shwec

 

Blair L. Pollock

Solid Waste Planner

Orange County Solid Waste Management Department

PO Box 17177

Chapel Hill NC 27516

(919) 968-2788

(919) 968-2800x206 direct

Fax: (919) 932-9300

 

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday 1/17 Monday: Curbside Recycling will be collected as usual. Landfill open 7am to 4pm as usual.

Solid Waste Convenience Centers CLOSED

 

[David....@sfgov.org]

It's trash collection, not recycling, that should be reduced.  We're currently doing weekly collection for the three streams - organics, recycling and trash - and working on ideas for pilots that would reduce the trash collection to every other week.

David Assmann, Deputy Director
San Francisco Department of the Environment
11 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 355-3702

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[Mario Laquerre]

Hi

 

First, normally,  the costs of curbside recycling should be lower when you collect on a monthly basis. By cons, it is necessary to provide alternatives to households that are unable, at the time of collection, to place
their recyclables at curbside. It could be a drop-off center.

 

This collection frequency requires the use of bins with a higher capacity (Ideally 360 litres or 95 gallons) but the storage of this type of container can have a space constraint for
some households, particularly in urban areas. Moreover, at this frequency, the risk is greater that recyclables are thrown in the garbage when the containers are filled
at full capacity until the day of collection or if citizens were unable to leave their bins on collection day.

 

Personally I prefer a by-weekly collection with a 360 liters. In Québec, we average 157,6 kg/household/year with a by-weekly collection. (http://www.recyc-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/upload/publications/MICI/GuideCollSelecSynthese.pdf)

 

Mario Laquerre

Directeur, Programmes

RECYC-QUÉBEC

 

141, avenue du Président-Kennedy, 8^e étage

Montréal (Québec) H2X 1Y4

 

514.352.5002 poste 2244

m.laq...@recyc-quebec.gouv.qc.ca

 

 

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[Rick Meyers]

I have to respectfully correct Blair on this one. Nashville's and
Milwaukee's monthly programs, while not optimal for resource recovery,
never "failed." In fact, Nashville's program has always been and
continues to operate on a once per month schedule. Nashville has
survey data showing that 67% of households have and use a recycling
cart at some point in the course of the year, with setout on any given
day of around 40%. Could be much worse for a large city. As for
Milwaukee, we have only this past year gone away from the monthly
program that had been operating here for 15 years. We are now working
a transition towards a biweekly schedule, currently operating a
monthly schedule only in the winter and an every 3rd week schedule for
the rest of the year. Some time in the next couple of years (we
hope), we will move to biweekly in conjunction with a switch to single
stream collection. So I’m really not defending monthly collection, as
I am a strong advocate for biweekly large cart collection (or weekly
small bin). I am just saying that monthly can work, and that it
definitely has benefits from strictly a cost basis.

Rick Meyers, Recycling Specialist, City of Milwaukee Dept of Public
Works