Regional Waste & Recycling Resource Hub: Electronics, Tires & Batteries — SWACO Recycling Convenience Center (Jackson Pike) + Separate HHW & Bulk Options — Columbus / Franklin County, OH
Regional resource information for household electronics,
tires, batteries, and other
hard-to-recycle household materials at SWACO’s
Recycling Convenience Center on Jackson Pike.
The facility provides a practical residential drop-off option for qualifying Franklin County residents when certain materials cannot be managed through ordinary curbside recycling.
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Important:
SWACO identifies the Recycling Convenience Center as a
Franklin County resident-use facility.
Property managers, maintenance teams, contractors, and businesses should not assume that property-generated or commercial materials are eligible for the residential program.
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The primary facility is:
SWACO Recycling Convenience Center (2566 Jackson Pike, Columbus, OH 43223)
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Resident-generated materials:
Individual Franklin County residents may use the SWACO Recycling Convenience Center for qualifying household materials in accordance with SWACO’s current acceptance rules.
Property-generated materials:
Materials generated through apartment maintenance, property operations, contractors, unit renovations, commercial activity, or management cleanouts should not automatically be routed through a residential recycling or HHW program.
Property management should verify the appropriate commercial recycling, waste, hazardous-material, or disposal pathway before transportation.
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Why This Works — Multiple Household Specialty Streams at One Location
Electronics + tires:
SWACO lists qualifying household electronics,
televisions, computer monitors, and
tires among materials accepted at the Recycling Convenience Center.
Fees apply to certain items.
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Hard-to-recycle materials:
SWACO also currently identifies specialty streams that include
household and automotive batteries,
fluorescent bulbs,
qualifying Styrofoam packaging,
food waste,
certain paints,
motor oil,
oil filters,
antifreeze,
and other materials subject to its current acceptance rules.
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Current hours:
Monday–Friday, 9:30 AM–5:00 PM and
Saturday, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM.
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- Primary facility: SWACO Recycling Convenience Center [1]
- Address: 2566 Jackson Pike, Columbus, OH 43223 [1]
- Hours: Mon–Fri 9:30 AM–5:00 PM; Sat 9:00 AM–4:00 PM [1]
- Eligibility: Franklin County residents; verify current residency/documentation requirements before visiting [1]
- Fees: Published fees apply to tires and specified televisions/monitors; fees are subject to change [1]
Electronics & Tires: Residential Drop-Off With Item-Specific Fees
Accepted electronics:
SWACO currently lists qualifying household electronics, televisions, computer monitors, and related electronic items at the Recycling Convenience Center.
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Current published fee examples:
SWACO currently lists
tires at $5 each,
LCD televisions at $15,
CRT televisions/monitors under 20 inches at $25,
CRT units under 35 inches at $35, and
CRT units above 35 inches at $45.
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Payment / fee warning:
Published fees, payment methods, and processing charges can change.
Verify SWACO’s current fee schedule before transporting materials.
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Hard-to-Recycle Household Items: Batteries, Bulbs, Styrofoam, Food Waste & More
Specialty household materials:
SWACO’s current Recycling Convenience Center materials list includes streams such as
household and car batteries,
fluorescent bulbs,
Styrofoam packaging,
food waste,
and other qualifying materials.
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Styrofoam limitation:
Follow SWACO’s current material rules.
Packaging foam is accepted under the current program, while materials such as
packing peanuts and food-service foam containers
are excluded.
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Different Materials, Different Facilities — Verify Before Transport
Do not classify every liquid or chemical the same way.
The Jackson Pike Recycling Convenience Center currently accepts several material streams that may be liquid or chemical in nature, including qualifying
motor oil,
antifreeze,
latex paint,
oil-based paint, and
spray paint.
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Other household hazardous products—including certain corrosives, pesticides, cleaners, gasoline, mercury-containing products, pool chemicals, propane cylinders, and similar materials—may instead require SWACO’s dedicated
Household Hazardous Waste program.
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Best practice:
Check the current accepted-material list for the specific item before transporting it.
Household Hazardous Waste: SWACO Residential HHW Facility
HHW facility:
SWACO operates its household hazardous waste program at
645 E. 8th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201.
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Hours:
Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM and
the first Saturday of each month, 9:00 AM–2:00 PM,
subject to holiday closures and current SWACO operating notices.
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SWACO states that its free household hazardous waste program is intended for
residential household-generated waste and
is not offered to businesses.
Apartment-property maintenance chemicals, contractor materials, management-generated waste, renovation chemicals, fuels, solvents, pesticides, or other business-generated hazardous materials should not be routed through the free residential HHW program.
Property management should use an appropriate commercial hazardous-waste provider and verify applicable storage, transportation, and disposal requirements.
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Latex Paint: Jackson Pike Option — Separate From Free HHW
Jackson Pike:
SWACO currently lists latex-based paint among materials accepted at the Recycling Convenience Center.
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HHW distinction:
SWACO states that latex and other water-based paints are
not considered hazardous for purposes of its free HHW program.
Follow the current Jackson Pike acceptance rules or SWACO’s instructions for drying/solidifying qualifying water-based paint before ordinary disposal where permitted.
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Bulk Furniture: Columbus Waste & Reuse Convenience Centers
Resident drop-off locations:
Columbus currently operates Waste & Reuse Convenience Centers that accept qualifying resident bulk items, including:
Alum Creek, 2100 Alum Creek Drive, and
Georgesville, 1550 Georgesville Road.
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Current hours:
Both locations are currently listed as
Tuesday–Saturday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM.
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Resident-use qualification:
These City resources should not automatically be treated as commercial apartment-property cleanout facilities.
Confirm eligibility and material requirements before routing property-generated or contractor-generated loads to a resident program.
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Columbus Bulk Pickup: Schedule Through 311 When Eligible
Scheduling:
Columbus states that qualifying bulk collection must be scheduled through
311.
Bulk items should not be placed out with the expectation of collection unless the applicable pickup has been properly scheduled.
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Unacceptable items:
Columbus lists items including
auto parts and tires
among materials that are not accepted through City bulk collection.
Tires can instead be evaluated under SWACO’s current residential tire-drop-off program.
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Columbus expressly states that
items resulting from an eviction, set-out, or foreclosure will not be collected through the City bulk-collection program.
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Apartment owners and property managers should maintain a separate approved hauling and disposal procedure for
eviction debris, abandoned-property cleanouts, unit turns, contractor waste, and other property-generated bulk material.
Do not represent the City resident bulk program as a property-management eviction-cleanout service.
Columbus Multifamily Recycling: Confirm Property Eligibility
City residential recycling:
Columbus provides recycling to qualifying residential properties and states that eligibility includes
single-family homes and buildings containing four attached units or fewer.
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Some larger communities may also qualify:
Columbus also identifies certain
condominium or apartment complexes that use qualifying City-serviced residential trash containers
as potentially eligible for City recycling service.
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Property-manager action:
Do not assume that every Columbus apartment property is automatically included in—or automatically excluded from—City recycling.
Verify the property’s actual City service eligibility, container configuration, and hauling arrangement before representing the recycling program to residents.
Property Manager Operational Checklist — Columbus / Franklin County
- Confirm jurisdiction: Determine whether the property is inside Columbus or another Franklin County municipality.
- Verify City recycling eligibility: Determine whether the property receives qualifying City residential trash/recycling service or operates under a different commercial/contracted arrangement.
- Separate resident waste from property-generated waste: Do not automatically use residential SWACO or City programs for maintenance, contractor, renovation, eviction, or management-generated materials.
- Maintain an approved bulky-item procedure: Give residents written instructions for furniture, mattresses, appliances, tires, move-out materials, and scheduled City bulk service where eligible.
- Create a separate eviction / unit-turn disposal procedure: City bulk collection does not serve as an eviction or foreclosure cleanout service.
- Separate household HHW from commercial hazardous waste: SWACO’s free HHW program is not offered to businesses.
- Verify accepted materials before transport: Electronics, tires, paints, batteries, bulbs, oils, chemicals, food waste, and Styrofoam each have material-specific rules.
- Verify current hours and fees: Facility schedules, fees, payment methods, and material restrictions can change.
How We Solve This For You (National Doorstep)
Waste and recycling compliance is operational.
In Columbus and Franklin County, National Doorstep helps property management standardize resident set-outs, reduce overflow and contamination, establish clear resident instructions, and separate ordinary doorstep waste from specialty materials requiring another approved pathway.
Resident-generated specialty materials may have routes through
SWACO Jackson Pike,
the SWACO Household Hazardous Waste facility,
Columbus Waste & Reuse Convenience Centers,
or scheduled 311 bulk collection when the resident and material are eligible.
Property-generated, contractor, maintenance, eviction, and commercial waste should be routed through the appropriate property-level or commercial disposal service.
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EEAT Sources: [1] SWACO — Recycling Convenience Center: Jackson Pike address, current hours, resident eligibility, accepted materials and published fees | [2] SWACO — Household Hazardous Waste: 645 E. 8th Avenue, hours, accepted household materials and business-use exclusion | [3] City of Columbus — Bulk Collection: 311 scheduling, current Waste & Reuse Convenience Center hours, prohibited materials and eviction/set-out/foreclosure restriction | [4] City of Columbus — Recycling / Disposal Eligibility: residential and qualifying condominium/apartment recycling-service information | [5] City of Columbus Department of Public Service — Residential Recycling and Eligible Condominium / Apartment Service Information
Columbus-area apartment owners, asset managers, and on-site teams: multifamily waste and recycling requirements vary by municipality and by the property's existing collection arrangement. Within the City of Columbus, qualifying residential properties may receive City recycling service, while Columbus Code Title 13 separately regulates multiple dwelling units and multiple dwelling developments. In Bexley, the regulatory track is different: Bexley Codified Ordinance §1060.16 establishes an affirmative onsite recycling requirement for multifamily properties.
SWACO provides Franklin County property owners and managers with multifamily recycling assistance, including program-development resources and help securing recycling service. SWACO does not itself provide hauling service. Properties should maintain an appropriate City and/or private collection arrangement for the specific site.
BEXLEY MULTIFAMILY COMPLIANCE — §1060.16
Multifamily property: Bexley defines a multifamily property as a property containing more than one dwelling unit, including condominium complexes.
Onsite recycling required: All multifamily residential properties must be provided with onsite single-stream recycling collection service.
Minimum collection frequency: At least weekly.
Minimum multifamily capacity: 24 gallons per dwelling unit, with at least one 96-gallon recycling toter.
Site-constraint flexibility: Where a site cannot accommodate the otherwise-required capacity, §1060.16 allows lesser onsite capacity when paired with more frequent collection, subject to the City's specified review and approval process. Shared adjoining facilities may also support an approved reduced-capacity arrangement.
Private/comparable service: Properties with qualifying pre-existing contracts or comparable recycling service may seek the exemption described in §1060.16 from the City's quarterly recycling rate, subject to City review.
Penalty — §1060.99: Violation or failure to comply with Chapter 1060 is a minor misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $100. A separate offense is deemed committed for each day the violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.
Property-manager shortcut: A valet recycling collection program can support resident participation, but doorstep collection alone does not replace Bexley's property-level requirement for compliant onsite recycling capacity, collection frequency, and an approved recycling-service arrangement.
Bexley §1060.16 — Recycling Service | Bexley §1060.01 — Definitions | Bexley §1060.99 — Penalty
- Confirm jurisdiction first: Franklin County contains multiple independent cities, villages, and townships. A Columbus rule should not automatically be applied to a Bexley, Dublin, Gahanna, Hilliard, Westerville, or other Franklin County property.
- Confirm actual service arrangement: Determine whether the property receives City collection, existing private service, or another approved arrangement before changing dumpsters, compactors, recycling containers, or service frequency.
- Use SWACO correctly: SWACO can help Franklin County property managers establish or improve recycling and connect with service options, but SWACO does not act as the property's hauler.
- Resident drop-off ≠ property service: SWACO's public recycling drop-off programs can give Franklin County residents additional recycling access, but a resident drop-off site should not be represented as the property's onsite or contracted recycling service.
- Document operations: Maintain service contracts, container maps, pickup schedules, resident instructions, contamination records, overflow documentation, and corrective actions.
At a Glance: Columbus vs. Bexley vs. Franklin County
City of Columbus
- Recycling eligibility: City recycling service is available to eligible City residents in single-family homes or buildings containing four attached units or fewer, or qualifying condominium/apartment properties using only City-serviced 96-gallon trash containers.
- Storage requirement: Eligible properties must have adequate space to store the City's recycling carts between collections.
- 5+ unit / multiple-dwelling framework: Do not automatically characterize every larger property as a commercial account. Columbus Title 13 Chapter 1309 recognizes both existing City and private-service arrangements for multiple dwelling properties.
- Existing private service: Where an existing multiple-dwelling property uses private service, Chapter 1309 provides that private service may continue. If City service is later requested, applicable Chapter 1309 requirements apply.
- Dumpster/compactor sites: Applicable multiple-dwelling properties receiving qualifying City service may be subject to pad, screening, approach-apron, access, and maneuvering requirements.
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Key links:
Columbus Recycling Eligibility · Title 13 — Chapter 1309
Bexley & Franklin County
- Bexley: Binding multifamily onsite recycling requirements are established in §1060.16.
- Other Franklin County cities: Do not assume Bexley's ordinance applies countywide. Verify each property's municipal code, waste-service eligibility, collection contract, development approvals, and enclosure/site requirements.
- SWACO multifamily assistance: SWACO supports Franklin County property owners/managers with recycling program resources and assistance securing service.
- SWACO hauling distinction: SWACO expressly states that it does not provide hauler services.
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Key links:
SWACO — Property Owners & Managers · SWACO — Multifamily Recycling · Franklin County — Municipalities
Franklin County Cities — Multifamily Recycling & Property Manager Information
Franklin County's current government directory identifies 16 cities. Bexley's affirmative multifamily recycling requirement is specifically identified below. For the remaining cities, this page does not make an unsupported blanket statement that no local recycling, container, development, nuisance, property-maintenance, or collection requirement exists. Property managers should verify the current rules applicable to the property address.
| City | Recycling / Regulatory Status | Relevant Property Manager Information | Official / Regional Resource |
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| Columbus | No general Bexley-style multifamily recycling mandate asserted here. City recycling eligibility and multiple-dwelling refuse rules must be analyzed separately. | Verify whether the property qualifies for City recycling based on its current City trash-container arrangement. For multiple dwelling units/developments, review Title 13 Chapter 1309 before changing between City and private service. Where applicable, account for dumpster/compactor pad, screening, approach-apron, and maneuvering-space requirements. Maintain an approved bulky-item and unit-turn procedure rather than treating resident bulk collection as a property cleanout service. |
Columbus Recycling
Chapter 1309 |
| Bexley | YES — Codified multifamily recycling requirement. §1060.16 applies to multifamily properties containing more than one dwelling unit. | Provide onsite single-stream recycling. Minimum service is weekly. Multifamily capacity is 24 gallons per unit, with at least one 96-gallon toter. Review administrative-exception provisions where physical site constraints affect capacity. Comparable private recycling arrangements should be reviewed against §1060.16 before seeking any exemption from the City's quarterly recycling rate. Chapter 1060 violations may result in a minor misdemeanor, up to $100, with each continuing day a separate offense. |
Bexley §1060.16
Bexley §1060.99 |
| Canal Winchester | Local verification required. No countywide multifamily recycling rule should be inferred. | Confirm whether municipal residential collection extends to the property's unit count and container configuration. For larger apartment communities, verify the actual hauler/service arrangement, enclosure/site requirements, bulky-item rules, and recycling-container placement. SWACO's multifamily team can assist with recycling-program development, but it does not provide hauling. | City of Canal Winchester |
| Dublin | Local verification required. Do not rely solely on residential curbside information for apartment properties. | Verify the property's specific refuse/recycling eligibility and whether multifamily service is municipal, contracted, or privately arranged. Confirm container standards, access, screening/enclosure requirements, bulky-item procedures, and current accepted recycling materials. Coordinate resident-facing recycling instructions with the actual hauler stream. | City of Dublin |
| Gahanna | Local verification required. Property-specific service eligibility should be confirmed. | Confirm whether the apartment property participates in a municipal contract or requires a separate service arrangement. Check collection frequency, recycling availability, container placement, enclosure/access requirements, and bulky-item procedures. Prevent routine ground accumulation and contamination around centralized containers. | City of Gahanna |
| Grandview Heights | Local verification required. Residential recycling rules should not automatically be applied to larger multifamily sites. | Verify apartment eligibility for municipal collection versus a separate property-level arrangement. Review container/enclosure location, access, recycling service, bulky-item handling, and property-maintenance requirements. Maintain clear resident instructions for trash versus recycling. | City of Grandview Heights |
| Grove City | Local verification required. Confirm current multifamily collection and recycling rules. | Verify whether the property is included in municipal/contracted collection or maintains a separate commercial arrangement. Right-size trash and recycling capacity, maintain safe enclosure access, establish a move-out/bulky-item process, and confirm resident-only restrictions before using public special-waste programs. | City of Grove City |
| Groveport | Local verification required. Municipal and property-specific rules control. | Confirm waste/recycling collection responsibility for the apartment property. Review container capacity, screening/site access, contamination procedures, bulky waste, and any municipal or contracted-hauler rules. Use SWACO's property-manager resources when evaluating a new recycling program. | City of Groveport |
| Hilliard | Local verification required. Confirm service eligibility for the specific multifamily property. | Determine whether the property receives municipal/contracted service or maintains its own collection agreement. Verify recycling-service availability, dumpster/container capacity, enclosure access, bulky-item rules, and resident education requirements. Do not use SWACO resident drop-offs as a substitute for a required property-level service arrangement. | City of Hilliard |
| New Albany | Local verification required. Verify municipal and property-development requirements. | Confirm the property's actual waste/recycling provider and service level. Before adding or relocating containers, review applicable site-plan, screening, access, and property-development requirements. Align resident recycling instructions with the accepted materials of the property's actual processor/hauler. | City of New Albany |
| Pickerington | Local verification required. Confirm rules applicable to the specific property location. | Verify multifamily waste/recycling service responsibility, collection frequency, enclosure standards, bulky-item rules, and special-waste procedures. Where recycling is provided, confirm contamination standards and resident education directly against the serving hauler/program. | City of Pickerington |
| Reynoldsburg | Local verification required. Do not infer apartment eligibility from single-family service rules. | Confirm whether the property receives municipal/contracted collection or maintains separate service. Keep containers adequately sized and accessible, establish procedures for illegal dumping and abandoned items, and verify recycling and bulky-item arrangements before communicating them to residents. | City of Reynoldsburg |
| Upper Arlington | Local verification required. Municipal residential programs do not automatically establish multifamily eligibility. | Verify the apartment property's collection arrangement and recycling access. Review enclosure/site standards, container capacity, bulky-item procedures, and resident special-waste options. Ensure resident materials match the actual recycling stream rather than generic recycling guidance. | City of Upper Arlington |
| Westerville | Local verification required. Confirm multifamily eligibility and contracted-service requirements. | Determine whether municipal/contracted collection serves the property or whether a separate property agreement is required. Verify trash and recycling capacity, enclosure access, bulky items, contamination management, and special-waste eligibility. Keep property-generated materials separate from resident-only programs. | City of Westerville |
| Whitehall | Local verification required. Verify current collection, sanitation, and property-maintenance rules. | Confirm the site's waste/recycling service arrangement, container placement, frequency, bulky-item procedure, and applicable nuisance/property-maintenance rules. Maintain enough collection capacity to minimize routine overflow and ground accumulation. | City of Whitehall |
| Worthington | Local verification required. Verify apartment/property eligibility independently of residential curbside service. | Confirm the property's waste/recycling service and whether public recycling resources are resident-use programs or property-level service options. Review container location, recycling signage, bulky-item handling, contamination controls, and current special-material routing. | City of Worthington |
SWACO Multifamily Resources — Property Managers
SWACO works with Franklin County apartment and condominium property managers seeking to establish or improve recycling service. SWACO's current property-owner guidance states that it can help properties secure recycling service and provide free resident/property-manager toolkits, while expressly clarifying that SWACO does not provide hauling service.
Property-manager use: SWACO resources can support vendor evaluation, program setup, resident education, recycling signage, and contamination reduction. The property remains responsible for confirming its actual municipal, contractual, and code obligations.
SWACO — Property Owners & Managers | SWACO — Multifamily Recycling Program
Important: Resident Drop-Off Programs Are Not Property Hauling Programs
SWACO's Recycling Drop-Off Program and Recycling Convenience Center provide recycling options for Franklin County residents. The Recycling Convenience Center expressly identifies itself as being for Franklin County residents' use.
For property managers: Do not automatically route maintenance, contractor, renovation, eviction-cleanout, management-generated, or other commercial/property-generated materials through resident programs. Confirm the appropriate property-level or commercial recycling/disposal pathway.
SWACO — Recycling Drop-Off Program | SWACO — Recycling Convenience Center
Columbus & Bexley Enforcement Snapshot
- Bexley §1060.16: Multifamily properties must maintain the required onsite single-stream recycling service, capacity, and collection frequency unless an applicable City-approved exception applies.
- Bexley §1060.99: Violation or failure to comply with Chapter 1060 is a minor misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $100. A separate offense is deemed committed each day during which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.
- Columbus: Title 13 establishes refuse-collection requirements and enforcement mechanisms applicable to qualifying waste-service and nuisance conditions. Columbus also maintains separate littering and illegal-dumping enforcement provisions. These should not be characterized as a recycling-specific apartment fine where no such recycling mandate has been established for the property.
- Other Franklin County cities: Do not apply Columbus or Bexley fine amounts countywide. Municipal codes and enforcement provisions must be checked separately.
- Risk-management practice: Maintain hauler agreements, service logs, container maps, resident notices, contamination/overflow photos, bulky-item procedures, and corrective-action records.
Primary legal links: Bexley §1060.16 · Bexley §1060.99 · Columbus Title 13
Columbus & Franklin County Multifamily Recycling / Waste Checklist
| Task | Action / Guidance | Property Manager Documentation | Helpful Links |
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| ☑ Confirm Jurisdiction | Verify the property's actual municipality before applying Columbus, Bexley, or another city's code. | Property address, parcel information, jurisdiction confirmation, applicable municipal contact. | Franklin County Municipality Directory |
| ☑ Confirm Current Collection Arrangement | Determine whether trash and recycling are provided by a municipality, contracted municipal provider, private hauler, or another approved arrangement. Do not assume all 5+ unit Columbus properties follow one service model. | Current hauler agreement, municipal account information, container inventory, collection schedule. | Columbus Chapter 1309 |
| ☑ Check Bexley §1060.16 | For Bexley multifamily property, calculate required recycling capacity at 24 gallons × dwelling units, with at least one 96-gallon toter, and confirm collection occurs at least weekly. | Unit count, capacity calculation, recycling-hauler contract, collection frequency, City approvals/exceptions if applicable. | Bexley §1060.16 |
| ☑ Review Container / Enclosure Requirements | Before adding, replacing, or relocating dumpsters, compactors, recycling containers, or valet-transfer points, verify applicable municipal, development, access, screening, and site-plan rules. | Site plan, container map, enclosure measurements, access path, vendor specifications. | Columbus §1309.06 |
| ☑ Right-Size Trash & Recycling | Track actual generation, peak move-in/move-out periods, contamination, overflow, and missed pickups. Adjust container capacity and collection frequency accordingly. | Service logs, overflow photos, pickup history, contamination reports, capacity calculations. | SWACO Property Manager Resources |
| ☑ Coordinate Recycling Hauler | Use SWACO resources when evaluating or establishing recycling, but contract with the appropriate actual service provider. SWACO does not provide hauling service. | Recycling proposal, executed agreement, accepted-material list, collection frequency. | SWACO Multifamily Recycling |
| ☑ Resident Education & Signage | Match resident instructions to the property's actual recycling stream. Clearly communicate accepted materials, contamination rules, set-out times, cardboard procedures, and bulky-item requirements. | Move-in materials, signage, email/text notices, door hangers, violation/contamination notices. | SWACO Toolkits |
| ☑ Separate Resident Drop-Off From Property Waste | Do not represent resident SWACO drop-off locations as a substitute for the property's required onsite/contracted service. Property-generated maintenance, renovation, contractor, and management waste may require a separate commercial pathway. | Special-waste policy, contractor disposal requirements, approved vendor list. | SWACO Drop-Off Program |
| ☑ Create Move-Out / Bulk Procedure | Establish written procedures for mattresses, furniture, appliances, tires, electronics, abandoned items, unit turns, and eviction-related material. Resident collection programs should not automatically be used for management-generated cleanout waste. | Bulk policy, vendor agreement, resident notices, unit-turn checklist. | Columbus Bulk Collection |
| ☑ Monitor & Document | Record recurring overflow, contamination, illegal dumping, access problems, service misses, and corrective actions. Use documentation to support vendor changes and demonstrate active management. | Photos, time/date logs, service tickets, resident correspondence, corrective-action history. | SWACO |
How National Doorstep Supports Property Operations
National Doorstep can support a property-level waste and recycling program by standardizing resident set-outs, moving resident-generated material to property-designated containers on private property, reducing overflow and contamination, supporting resident education, and documenting service activity.
Important compliance distinction: National Doorstep's doorstep collection service does not replace the property's municipal or contracted trash/recycling hauling arrangement and does not itself establish compliance with a municipal recycling mandate.
In Bexley, for example, the property must independently maintain the onsite recycling capacity, minimum collection frequency, and qualifying recycling-service arrangement required by §1060.16.
Want a property-specific review of your Columbus or Franklin County waste and recycling workflow? Request a Free Compliance & Convenience Audit . We can review resident set-outs, container capacity, recycling access, service frequency, enclosure conditions, contamination controls, and operating documentation while helping your team identify which requirements should be confirmed with the municipality and the property's authorized hauler.
City of Columbus — Recycling Service Eligibility | Columbus City Code — Title 13 Refuse Collection | Columbus Chapter 1309 — Multiple Dwelling Requirements | Columbus §1309.06 — Dumpster / Compactor Site Requirements | Bexley §1060.01 — Definitions | Bexley §1060.16 — Recycling Service at Commercial, Institutional & Multifamily Properties | Bexley §1060.99 — Penalty | SWACO — Property Owners & Managers | SWACO — Multifamily Recycling Program | SWACO — Recycling Drop-Off Program | SWACO — Recycling Convenience Center | Franklin County — Cities, Townships & Villages
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