Sustainable Step introduces a comprehensive Green Bin implementation program for Multi-Unit Residential Buildings.
Contact us and schedule a call. We have a Consultant to help you coordinate the program in the Ottawa, Canada region.
Proven solutions and a turn-key organic waste diversion and recycling program to help Property Managers to implement the Green Bin Mandates.
With a commitment to excellence, we’ve crafted niche programs and frameworks to help support Property Managers to implement a successful ”Green Bin” Program.
The City of Ottawa is moving forward with the implementation of Green Bins in Multi-residential Buildings across the City.
The City has some information to help Property Manager to implement the Green Bins, but some Property Managers may want a little bit extra help. That is where the team at the Sustainable Step comes in.
Our programs are customizable and provide a comprehensive framework for successfully guiding the process and helping residents to happily adopt the new organic waste diversion into their lives.
The Green Bin implementation framework includes all the materials and information your residents will need, as well as all the tools for metrics, and successful templates for communicating with residents so that your team doesn’t have to think up everything from scratch.
Developing a program that introduces new Green Bins with new protocols for residents to adopt and integrate into their existing ways, is a bit tricky. To ensure that you can do this successfully and with ease is where we step in – we are here to make things easier.
Guiding your Implementation with a Proven Framework
Experience and expertise have built this Green Bin implementation Program for success.
Meet our team
Our professionals are ready to help you.
Natalia Snajdr
Founder, Senior Consultant
S&S Sustainability
Ivan Zahrada
Project Manager
Sustainable Step
We’ve worked with great Organizations and Property Management companies
FAQs
What does the program include to help residents change existing behaviors of throwing everything in one trash bag?
Our program provides a how to guide for Management that is built around engagement strategies. Based on a knowledge of the ‘Behavior Change Model’, our framework lays out a proven and successfully Plan that includes Mind Maps, timelines, drafted communications templates, posters and infographics.
It also includes tools to calculate diversion metrics for buildings, reporting templates, outreach templates with guides that explain how they fit into the overall Behavioral Change Model – All theses tool are provided to you and then your on-site team uses them in the customized feedback to residents that outlines the progress and effects of Green Bin use.
How did this program get developed?
This Green Bin program implementation is the evolved culmination of knowledge and tools that began to be developed from our initial pilot projects with Green Bins over a decade ago. Lots of learned lessons from past trials, led to the comprehensive program that we now have. It went from Property managers and maintenance staff dealing with ineffective mixed results, and lot’s of smelly and little buzz problems, to what is now the right implementation for successful Green Bin organics waste management and diversion.
What are the benefits of this program to the Property management?
It translates to saving money, time and staff resources. Save on extra haulage costs associated with more than anticipated waste. And its in line with the triple bottom line value proposition too, where that translates to real value to your residents, the City, and the Planet. It provides a decade + worth of lessons learned, know how and provides a high level of guidance with usable templates and tracking spreadsheets ( keeping in mind Maintenance/Staff run the program, monitor the implementation, and develop the right internal processes that fit your Site. – Our team does not complete the on-site work, but we do liaison with the City to help you implement the Plan. Ultimately, your team knows your residents best, and with the help we provide you and your management and Site Staff, a custom program that works well and successfully for you is crafted and rolled out.
What experience do we have in implementing this program?
We have a track record of successfully implementing “Green Bin” programs in 25+ buildings across Ottawa that include various new and old building stock, townhouses. and multi-residential buildings.
With over 10+ years of dealing with Green Bins and organic waste diversion we have created a comprehensive multi-departmental project plan for the implementation of the “Green Bin” program, including diversion metrics, staff training, resident engagement and education, with a full suit of communications materials and more, for a rental community of 1,600 + 2,500 rental units of all sorts.
What makes our Consultation and Programs Unique?
This program and framework is flexible, but it also follows a proven structured process that has grown out over 10+ years of painstakingly being in the messy middle of the efforts to make Green Bin recycling and organic waste diversion work right. From those years of trying different strategies and finally finding best practices we’ve help mitigate the issues that can easily arise, and so, we’ve mitigated the yucky “ick” factor that comes with trying to implementing a “Green Bin” program.
Through those years of “learning what works and what doesn’t”, we also saw just how human behavior affects best laid plans – and that’s when we started incorporating unique and successful strategies into the program from a human behavior standpoint. This Plan is the culmination of all that experience with Green Bins and waste management at Multi-Unit Residential Buildings and Communities.
Minimal Requirements to Participate:
- Corporate buy-in
- Key contact person to discuss and decide on program needs
- Buying necessary supplies***
- Sharing minimal diversion tracking ˆˆ
- Some nominal costs for printed materials – laminated signage, printing for posters, etc..
Who We Are:
S&S Sustainability is boutique sustainability consulting company with over 20+ years of environmental sustainability work in non-profit, NGOs, public service and Parliamentary work.
Founder and Principal Consultant Natalia Šnajdr has worked in various capacities to help build bridges between people, organizational cultures and the magic of our natural world as new integrations and sustainable steps.
S&S Sustainability develops programs that embrace the motto that, as individuals and as a collective, “Our Actions Matter”.
We craft empowering and respectful programs that help align organizations towards a more harmonious integration with our beautiful natural world. We work with owners, managers and residents in single and multi-residential buildings to take positive steps towards decreasing their environmental footprints through various environmental initiatives.
Over the years we have created new behavioral norms in communal and multi-residential buildings, using behavior change programs, and community-based social marketing strategies.