Elimination of Personal Waste Baskets at the [GM] Warren Tech Center

“In the coming weeks we will begin to implement a relatively new cost savings initiative at the Warren Tech Center. This initiative deals with the personal waste baskets that are present in most all of the office work stations and conference rooms. Our plan is to eliminate these waste baskets and transition to a modified method of personal office waste disposal.

The current process that most of you should be following in a office environment is to dispose of your office waste in three separate waste streams.

1, Any recyclable paper and/or materials (transparencies, phone books, catalogs, mail, electronic media, photographs, diskettes, blueprints, audio/video tapes, newspapers, magazines, envelopes, file folders, etc…) should be disposed of in the grey confidential bins.

2. Any food waste or associated containers and wrappers, should be disposed of into the food waste containers strategically located in your office areas.

3. Other items like Kleenex, paper towels, plastic wrappers, and such traditionally go into your office waste basket.

The new process will be to dispose of your office waste in two separate waste streams.

1, Any recyclable paper and/or materials (transparencies, phone books, catalogs, mail, electronic media, photographs, diskettes, blueprints, audio/video tapes, newspapers, magazines, envelopes, file folders, etc…) should be disposed of in the grey confidential bins.

2. Any other waste (food waste or associated containers and wrappers, Kleenex, paper towels, plastic wrappers, and such) should be disposed of into the food waste containers strategically located in your office areas.

When we remove your personal waste basket we will supply you with one of the white cardboard open top recycle boxes if you don’t already have one. You will use this to collect and transport your recyclables and other general trash. We ask that you place each in the proper containers. (food waste or grey recycle bins)

The Janitorial staff will no longer empty trash from your work station or from conference rooms.

We will increase the number of food waste containers to compensate for the increase in volume.

This will result in significant cost savings for General Motors and help us with mandated cleaning staff reductions. Benefits would include:

Reduced cleaning costs and headcount.

Reduction in the quantity of trash can liners purchased.

Increased emphasis on recycling and reduction of land fill use. (We find a lot of recyclable paper in the waste baskets, wastebasket trash go into our landfills)”

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