I'm wondering if it would be too much to ask for the building to consider picking up recycling on each floor. I realize this creates more work for the maintenance staff, but really, isn't that a reasonable amenity to expect in a luxury building? There's nothing luxurious about carrying beer bottles, cat food cans, and diaper boxes down as many as twelve floors to visit the loading dock...as luxurious as it is.I'm just saying...c'mon management. How about it?
We leave our recycling in bags in the trash room on our floor and they are brought down by maintenance staff. Isn't this common practice?? It's been almost a year doing it.
ReplyDeleteNope! I guess that makes you a bad person.
ReplyDeleteMention to your local rental office person that you'd prefer being able to leave your recycling at the trash room.
Not being able to leave recycling in the trash room is a terrible rule, and it is also frustrating and unfair when people don't follow the rule. Management needs to fix this by placing bins in the trash rooms, just like every other building...this is common practice in the most "non luxurious" of buildings.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It seems like this building is trying to run itself on the cheap. I realize all businesses--and an apartment building is a business--need to be run in a fiscally sound manner, but I wonder just how much additional expense the management company would incur by having its current maintenance staff pick up recycling during its daily run?
ReplyDeleteLike another poster said, this is common practice in lesser buildings.
Agreed- management should do this. I'm about to move in from a much less luxurious building where recycling is collected from each floor on a daily basis (except for Sundays). I could barely take the leasing office seriously when they told me I had to take recycling down to the loading dock. People recycle far less when they can't just leave things in the trash room.
ReplyDeleteA couple of good points from the poster above!
ReplyDeleteI think the lack of convenient recycling collection does encourage some to take the easiest route and simply dump recycling down the trash chute. For me this is an issue far more important than convenience though.
People in this country love to toss around the Patriotism word without any thought of what it really means. For me Patriotism isn't about flag waving and such things. It's about doing the every day things that have an impact on our economy and ecology to get this country up off its back (of course certain folks don't consider DC part of the "Real America."). You betcha!
We make a mountain of trash in this country and the vast majority of it ends up in landfills. I consider recycling a duty--a patriotic act. It makes me sick to see people do so little to make there world a better place. It makes it even worse that so many in this building work on Capitol Hill or for the Government. Recycling is your duty as a citizen and it's the duty of businesses like this apartment building to encourage recycling as much as possible, and if it takes making it easy for some, then so be it. Do it!
Another point. Like the poster above, I too have lived in lesser buildings that make collection of recycling part of regular trash collection. It can't really be that much of an obstacle.
Another point - there seems to be trash collection already going on for all the floors, as the freight elevator was stolen from us the other day while we had it reserved, by the garbage collector. Apparently my girlfriend had to get management to first find the guy, and then explain to him that he can't just take the elevator whenever he wants to. Which cost her half an hour of standing around time with her movers.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the ninth floor and as I opened the door to dump my trash I almost tripped over 3 bags of recycling that some considerate person left just inside the door. They not only didn't get it downstairs, they didn't even put the effort into getting it two steps into the trash room.
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