How much would recycling bins cost to have throughout a high volume shopping centre to encourage recycling?
I suggest you have a look at this page on our web site for the retail industry. The cost for implementing a waste reduction and recycling program will vary depending on the size of the shopping centre. Chains of shopping centres often have one contract for waste and recycling collection for all of their shopping centres. To give you a rough guide a one 5 cubic metre bin costs around $2,000 – but often this cost is absorbed into the collection contracts over a period such as 2 years. The collection companies pay less to dispose of recyclable material than they do for waste – so it is usually cheaper to have a recycling bin collected than a waste bin.
