One of our clients in San Francisco has a mid-rise apartment complex that has 186 units in a 9-story building. There are two trash rooms with chutes coming from the upper levels. Each room has two trash dumpsters and two recycling bins. The ground floor trash rooms and the resident chute rooms on the upper … Read more
An apartment complex that was one of our waste diversion customers approached WasteXperts with a stinky problem. Their trash room odors were infiltrating a bank adjacent to their building. The bank staff was miserable, customers were unhappy, and the apartment managers didn’t know what to do. Common remedies like cleaning the trash room and trash … Read more
The Clean AirActUVator reduces or eliminates trash room odors by using Ultraviolet light (UV-C and UV-V) to cause chemical oxidation of the odor-causing molecules. This is the same process that occurs naturally outside in the atmosphere by interaction with sunlight. An example would be hydrogen sulfide molecules (H2S), which you might recognize as “rotten egg … Read more
As any apartment property manager will tell you, trash rooms can be the source of major complaints from tenants. Some of the problems are easy to control, like sweeping and power washing floors and walls periodically to remove loose garbage that didn’t make it into the bin. But there are deeper issues with the dumpster … Read more
“Is there something you can do about that trash chute odor” an optician asks as the smell of trash is vented out of an apartment complex trash room into their place of business. It was a perfect time to implement a trash chute odor control system and mitigate the odors generated from daily trash disposal … Read more
