Know of a service to pick up paper recycling from office bldgs?

My office building won't buy recycling dumpsters or have the cleaning staff collect paper recycling throughout the building. Los Angeles Area.

Here is a grreat guide that tells you step by step how to do it. I'll only post the start of the article as I think it is too long to insert in an Answer. Good luck!

Nat'l. Office Paper Recycling Project's Office Paper Recycling Guide

Office Paper Recycling Guide


How your office can complete the recycling loop. Buy recycled paper products and collect office waste paper.

National Office Paper Recycling Project

The National Office Paper Recycling Project is a joint effort by private companies and public interest groups to promote a national office paper recycling strategy. The goal of the project is to maximize the recycling of office waste paper and to minimize its disposal. This guide to office recycling is intended to provide information on the importance of buying recycled products and collecting recyclable office waste paper.

National Office Paper Recycling Project
The United States Conference of Mayors
1620 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

Director: Brian A. Day
Recycling Specialist: Chris Denniston
Project Manager: David Gatton

Illustrator: Margaret Scott
Contributors: Marla Dockery, Richard Keller and Dana Arnold
Editor: Cindy Spitzer

Copyright 1991 National Office Paper Recycling Project, All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce this Guide for non-profit purposes provided that each copy includes the foregoing copyright notice.

What is Recycling?

Recycling involves three distinct steps, represented by the three arrows of the traditional recycling symbol: (1) the collection and processing of recyclable materials, (2) the manufacture of these materials into new products, and (3) the purchase and use of recycled-content products. Offices can participate in recycling not only by collecting recyclable materials but is equally important to purchase and use recycled-content products. It is essential in fact that Buy Recycled programs are adopted. One without the other is self-defeating. Recycling exists only when the lop is closed. This guide is intended to assist you in doing both.

Why Recycle?

Paper and paperboard make up the largest component of solid waste by weight. In the U.S., over 40% of municipal solid waste is paper - about 71.8 million tons each year. Recycling office paper makes economic and environmental sense.

A few good reasons to recycle in your office:

* Recycling office waste paper saves valuable landfill space - 3 cubic yards for every ton of paper recycled - and extends the lives of our landfills. EPA reports that by the year 2000 half of the current 6,500 operating landfills will be closed.

* Throwing away paper is a careless waste of a valuable resource.

* Recycling fosters goodwill among employees and the community - many employees are recycling at home and want to help conserve our natural resources and landfill space by recycling at work as well.

* Your state law or city ordinance may require businesses to recycle office paper.

* An office paper recycling program will help your community meet its recycling goals

I'm not in LA but where I live they have a service company that comes to the office and picks up bins of paper that is then shredded and recycled. The company is called SHRED PRO and their toll free number is 1-866-747-3377. You could call it and see if they offer the same thing in your area. Best of luck.

If you are in Los Angeles the city, see the first link first, regarding the Commercial and Office Recycling Information
from the Solid Resources Citywide Recycling Division (SRCRD)... Even if NOT in the city proper, I would be surprised if they did not have information and referrals which would help you.

The leadership must be persuaded from a business sense that throwing away all that paper is throwing away money and opportunities for public good will and possible tax incentives. Other big businesses have seen their self interest... For example "Instead of paying $35 per ton to carry paper to the landfill, LAUSD now receives anywhere from $5 to $150 per ton to recycle paper and cardboard, depending on the current market rate. " Management tends to think in terms of the bottom line; but it actually IS in their best interest to start recycling!

Hi Kappy. If your office building won't fork over funds, I do not see how you can recycle with one exception. You can take your own waste paper home in a trash bag and put it in your curbside recycle container (be careful you do not take anything that needs to be shredded) and then you would be doing your part. Who knows; others may see you and copy. Now about service. Most cities have commercial waste disposal companies that will provide containers and pick up but at a cost. I do not think that will work since your company is on the cheap. Sorry.
HarryB

well you could just take it home and put it in your recycling dumpster