Best Practice Apartment Waste Management
For Mia Property
Our ongoing partnership with owners corporation specialist Mia Property has increased resource recovery at nine apartment buildings to date, providing residents with best practice systems and services for their waste areas.
Our residential partnerships look at every aspect of apartment waste behaviour, from the physical waste areas themselves to commercial contracts to resident behaviour and engagement.
Through a tailored and data-driven approach to waste management we seek to reduce waste to landfill, increase circularity and align systems with resident values.
Waste area installations
In new buildings we identify and establish optimal waste and resource recovery streams at each site, and structure waste areas and systems accordingly. This process includes liaising with a range of waste contractors ensuring each stream has an ethical end destination as well as the installation of behaviour-targeted waste area infrastructure unique to each site. Tailored educational material is also provided to ensure residents are informed of and engaged with best practices in waste management and resource recovery.
In existing buildings, we audit and review waste data at each site to identify opportunities for improvement followed by redesigning and retrofitting waste systems and spaces to address them. Our best practice waste areas take advantage of behavioural insights to optimise space, maximise cleanliness, promote recycling behaviours all while minimising waste to landfill.
Waste contract assessment and management
For existing buildings, we assess waste contracts to ensure that buildings aren’t being overserviced or charged unnecessary fees and that the services they receive reflect their resident’s needs.
In new buildings, we utilise our expertise in waste systems to help negotiate highly efficient waste contracts through a sustainability lens, looking outside of traditional models to ensure residents are serviced by contracts and partners that reflect their values while also achieving great value for money.
Education & Engagement
We engage residents through a range of channels to induct them into their new recycling systems and assist them in making the process of recycling simple and barrier-free.
We customise our education for each building based on resident feedback as well as monitoring and adjustment of the waste areas.
Our bespoke educational programming has included actions such as:
The introduction of interactive signage addressing specific contaminants found repeatedly in individual buildings’ recycling streams
Using targeted digital communications to tackle key behavioural waste issues
Engaging with residents via internal channels such as Whatsapp and Facebook to build community around sustainability issues and emphasise how their efforts with waste and recycling can have a positive impact on the environment
Ongoing support
Waste is a complex issue that requires engaged, on-the-ground solutions.
Reground are deliberate about providing ongoing support to all buildings we work with in order to ensure the success of their systems.
Our support includes regular monitoring of waste areas and ongoing management of waste contracts. To support and engage residents, we provide regular updates on how their recycling efforts are tracking along with statistical insights into what they have diverted from landfill.