Garbage pickup is an important service for residential neighborhoods and commercial areas alike, but is your business doing all it can to cultivate an efficient environment for garbage pickup?
Whether you run a small business or a large corporation, here are a few tips to help you create a safer, more efficient garbage pickup environment.
Keep garbage receptacles accessible
This is especially important in the winter months, as snow removal and plowing services tend to deposit snow either in front of or around trash receptacles. In order to prevent this from happening, you should instruct snow removal services to keep the immediate area around your trash receptacles clear. In addition, unlock any gates around that area when garbage pickup day arrives.
Don’t let containers overflow
Overflowing containers are not only a health hazard for waste management employees, they put you at risk of getting pests. If a raccoon or a squirrel finds its way to that reliable food source, they’re going to come back with friends. Keep your garbage levels under control and make sure you have enough trash receptacles to accommodate all of your waste needs.
Break down any large items
Any large cardboard boxes or other pieces of garbage should be broken down into more compact pieces before going into the garbage. And if you have a particularly large piece of garbage like a desk or chair, you should arrange for special pickup to avoid conflict on trash removal day.
Keep asphalt maintained
The last thing you want on garbage removal day is damaged asphalt. Fortunately, you can easily avoid that issue by performing regular maintenance on your pavement. Your garbage area should be structurally sound enough to support a waste removal truck. If it’s not, then that’s a liability that you need to remedy immediately.
The average person produces approximately four pounds of garbage every day, and if you’re not careful collecting and disposing of garbage at your workplace, it could make big problems for your trash removal service. Make sure you take these precautions when preparing for garbage day!
