The biggest hurdle to multifamily recycling is separation of materials and assuring that garbage and recyclable materials are separated into different containers prior to collection. The city will design and produce recycling information and educational materials that address contamination of recyclable materials. The information and educational materials produced will inform residents on how to properly prepare and separate recyclables to avoid contamination. The city will make reasonable efforts to provide multifamily building owners and managers with technical assistance on how to minimize contamination problems. The city will ask the service providers to make reasonable efforts to provide multifamily building owners and managers with technical assistance on how to minimize contamination problems as well.

The service providers will distribute information and educational materials on the program as directed by the city. The service providers will distribute correction cards and alert multifamily building owners, managers and tenants of recurrent contamination and other program related problems. (Ord. 2043-95 § 4(D), 1995.)