SERVICES

Trash AWAY, Inc. Services For High-Rise Buildings:

  • Trash is efficiently and effectively removed:
    • Daily service, 365 days a year;
    • Trash AWAY, Inc. removes trash from compactor room;
    • Eliminates odors associated with standing trash;
    • Removes pedestrian hazards from property sidewalks; and
    • Reduces liability exposure.
  • Trash is contained in sealed, heavy-duty plastic bags:
    • Eliminates spillage of residual fluids from garbage;
    • Contains odors associated with open garbage; and
    • Eliminates pests attracted to open garbage.
  • Trash compactor room is properly maintained:
    • Walls and floor painted and sealed to control odors and pests;
    • Compactor power scrubbed and painted to control odors and pests; and
    • Tools and accessories comply with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements.
  • Establish a recycling center for resident use:
    • Provide recycling containers to residents;
    • Recycling labels and information are provided to residents;
    • Recycling educational seminars coordinated for residents and building maintenance staff; and
    • Recycling reports are prepared for client's local government jurisdiction.


Trash AWAY, Inc. Services For Curbside Collection:

  • Trash and recycling collection services;
  • Professional and courteous drivers and employees;
  • Well-maintained, state-of-the-art equipment;
  • Timely service guaranteed;
  • No mess left at curbside;
  • Bulk trash services;
  • Yard waste services;
  • Provide single-stream recycling services to help achieve recycling goals;
  • Easy-to-follow recycling guides;
  • Recycling educational seminars conducted for residents; and
  • Trash and recycling bins provided.

Recycling Facts


Paper

  • To produce each week's Sunday newspapers 500,000 trees must be cut down.
  • Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
  • If all our newspaper was recycled we could save about 250 million trees each year!
  • If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers we would save about 25 million trees a year.
  • The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2 billion trees per year!
  • The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50 million homes for 20 years.


Trash/Landfills

  • Although 75 percent of our trash can be recycled the EPA set a national goal of 25 percent for 1992.
  • The first real recycling program was introduced in New York City in the 1890s.
  • By 1924, 83 percent of American cities were separating some trash items to be reused.
  • About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!
  • Every year each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage.
  • The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5 percent of the world's people generate 40 percent of the world's waste.
  • The U.S. population discards each year 16 billion diapers, 1.6 billion pens, 2 billion razor blades, 220 million car tires and enough aluminum to rebuild the U.S. commercial air fleet four times over.
  • Out of every $10 spent buying things $1 (10 percent) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65 percent of all household trash.
  • On average it costs $30 per ton to recycle trash, $50 to send it to the landfill and $65 to $75 to incinerate it.

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