Do You Recycle?
Challenge for Buckhead Multifamily Properties
Atlanta’s Do You Recycle? Challenge – launched in partnership with The Recycling Partnership and Live Thrive – is engaging multifamily buildings citywide to provide recycling training and education to residents over the next 12 months, culminating in a public recognition event for participating properties. This is a free program with the goal of keeping more recyclables out of landfills and improving the quality of recyclables captured by multifamily properties.
The Do You Recycle? Challenge will provide training and education to property facility teams and residents, while measuring impacts along the way. Participating properties will be trained on how to use the Zabble Zero app to track and measure their recycling progress. The Challenge will culminate in a public recognition event in summer of 2022 for the properties with the highest achievements in improving recycling participation and reducing the amount trash or nonrecyclables in the recycling.
If you are a Buckhead property interested in learning more or participating in the Do You Recycle? Challenge, please click the button below to get started.
In Partnership:
Financial Benefits to Participating Multi-family Properties
Financial benefits through:
- Opportunity to apply for grant of up to $2,500 to introduce or improve recycling infrastructure
- Value of marketing materials including tote bag, information cards, door tags, building signage, digital materials
- Potential decrease in contamination charges
- Improved amenity for building tenants
Resources Provided by the Challenge
- Technical assistance
- Public recognition
- Resources to support compliance with Atlanta City Ordinance requiring recycling access and quarterly reporting of recycling tonnage
- Property walk through, followed by list of recommended improvements and plan for implementation and education
- A suite of educational materials including:
- Standard materials (glass and non-glass options available) printed and
delivered provided at no cost to multifamily property participant:- Tote bags for residents to carry recyclables to recycling area
- Information cards for residents
- Door tags
- Building signage
- Digital materials for multifamily property participant to add to and print/deliver
themselves:- FAQ documents
- Sample Resident program introduction and reminder emails
- Social content
- Digital quiz
- Digital resident survey content
- Sample language for recycling commitment for all new resident packets
- Oops tag for doorstep/valet service
- Standard materials (glass and non-glass options available) printed and
Intention of Challenge
The Do You Recycle Challenge (DYR Challenge) provides multi-family properties the tools and guidance needed to deliver and track recycling access and education to all residents through various community partnerships. The intention of the DYR Challenge is to engage multifamily properties in Atlanta to commit to reduce waste to landfill, improve recycling outcomes and allow residents to do their part.
Goals
Atlanta is home to nearly 1500 multifamily community properties, which represents approximately 140,000 individual homes. Over the next 12 months, the DYR Challenge will endeavor to engage at least 100 buildings (or 40,000 homes whichever comes first) into this voluntary challenge program. The ultimate goal of all of the work The Recycling Partnership is doing in Atlanta is to reduce contamination and improve participation in recycling. The DYR Challenge will provide training and education to our community program partners, the property facility teams, and ultimately the residents while measuring impacts along the way. The Challenge will culminate in a recognition event in summer of 2022.
Stakeholders
Managing Program Partner: LiveThrive Atlanta (an Atlanta based non-profit organization) will serve as the community hub for the DYR Challenge. Given their mission and dedication to recycling in the City of Atlanta, as well as the unique resources that Live Thrive and CHARM are able to provide in addition to those provided by The Recycling Partnership, Live Thrive is a natural compliment and appropriate fit to be a managing program partner.
Community Program Partners: organizations that are committed to engaging, recruiting, and providing education directly to multifamily properties through the DYR Challenge. These organizations are embedded in the communities they serve and will function as the relationship managers and service provider to the multi-family properties through the Challenge.
Community Program Partners include:
- Atlanta Housing
- Livable Buckhead
Promotional Partners: organizations that are committed to promoting the Challenge to their networks to drive potential multi-family properties to the landing page where they can find out more and sign up through the email on the webpage. These partners will be provided an FAQ document and updated on status of challenge to make sure they are informed in order to provide their network with up-to-date information.
Promotional Partners include:
- City of Atlanta Office of Resilience
- Atlanta Apartment Association
- Georgia Recycling Coalition
- Atlanta Recycles
Measurement
The DYR Challenge will utilize a custom designed app provided by Zabble Zero to track and measure progress at all properties and for the general program.
Overall program metrics include but are not limited to:
- Participating properties, units, and square feet
- Total recycling tonnage (volume conversions)
- % improvement of volume
- % improvement of incidents of contamination
- Types of contamination recorded
- Infrastructure added / improved (and dollar value associated)
