Cardboard Recycling in Sandy Springs, GA
Bulk OCC collection for office towers and clinical buildings where every carton has to leave through a bay that deliveries are already using.
A tower takes deliveries all day. Office supplies, IT equipment, catering, furniture and everything a few thousand desks consume arrive in corrugated packaging, and all of it has to go back out through the same service bay it came in by. Around Sandy Springs that is the reason so much good cardboard ends up crushed into a general waste compactor: not because anyone wanted it there, but because the bay filled up and something had to give.
Corrugated we take from towers and clinical buildings
- Flattened delivery cartons from tenant floors
- Office supply and IT equipment packaging
- Furniture and fit-out cartons
- Clinical consumable and supply boxes
- Catering and pantry delivery packaging
- Retail cartons from ground-floor units
Why cardboard loses out in a multi-tenant building
One bay serves every tenant, every delivery, every contractor and every waste stream in the building. Cardboard is bulky, it arrives in an unpredictable pattern, and it is the easiest thing to sacrifice when space runs out, which is precisely how a recoverable material becomes general waste.
Fixing that is mostly about deciding where flattened cartons live between collections and making sure whoever handles deliveries knows. A defined spot, even a small one, holds far more than a stack propped against a wall because it forces the cartons to be broken down properly.
Packaging from the medical buildings
Consumables arrive at clinical buildings continuously and in heavily packaged form, which makes their supply rooms some of the most cardboard-intensive spaces in the area. Those rooms are also small, because floor space in a medical building is given to clinical use first.
The practical answer is a shorter interval rather than a bigger container. Where the supply room simply cannot hold a day of packaging, the collection point usually has to move to the dock and the walk has to be built into somebody rounds.
Keeping cartons dry, flat and separate
Corrugated is worth recovering when it is dry, flat and kept out of general waste, and worth very little when it is not. Wet board from an outdoor stack and cartons with food waste in them are the two things that most often spoil an otherwise clean load.
Ground-floor retail and food units along the main roads produce the highest contamination risk, so it is worth separating their packaging from the office streams rather than letting everything meet in one container at the back of the building.
Baled, loose and compacted collection options are covered on the cardboard recycling page.
Electronics, metal and confidential paper from the same buildings are covered under Sandy Springs recycling.
Need This Handled in Sandy Springs?
Tell us how much arrives, where it can be held and how the bay works, and we will propose an interval that keeps it clear.