– The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
With more and more apartment dwellers working from home, there is a very real and very expensive impact for property management companies: more trash. As residents rely on e-commerce for everything from groceries to furniture, all that packaging has to go somewhere.
And someone has to pay for it.
According to the National Apartment Association (NAA), contamination fees (resulting when recyclables are not separated) are up 10%-12% and can be as much as 5% of a waste and recycling bill. But what can management companies do?
Counting the costs
Waste management costs start with the dumpster rental itself. The average-sized dumpster for an apartment community is a three-yard, but many sites will have multiple dumpsters located in various locations throughout the property that require emptying services multiple times every week.