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Posters and signage

Posters and signage are a great way to help users to decipher where their waste or recycling should go when approaching the bins. Method have a range of custom solutions that we can create for you depending on your needs.

While people will continue to learn intuitively after regular interaction, the need for clear and concise signage will increase, depending on how public your space is. For example, many public spaces such as libraries, event spaces and auditoriums implement vertical signage that’s attached to the back of the bins. You can see examples of past signage below, or get in touch here for your solution.

Recycling Station and vertical signage
Pre-bin communications

Getting internal teams on board

How do I get my team on board with my recycling initiative?

Here’s how to run a successful recycling-oriented internal communications campaign:

Be organised

Make sure your calendar is up to date and that you’re promoting your recycling initiative before the recycling bins have made it to your premises. This way, excitement and anticipation will build surrounding what you’re trying to achieve.

Find your identity

What will your Tone of Voice be? Consistency is key when it comes to the branding of your internal communications. Find your identity, think about who you’re targeting, and stick to it.

Rely on your Green Team

Hopefully, once you have a strong green team in place, or a recycling coordinator, it should be clear who the staff can go to with questions and suggestions about bins, recycling, and other initiatives you may have in place.

Getting tenants on board

External teams or tenants are a unique challenge without day-to-day interaction, or an on-site presence. Hence, why it’s important that a clear communication and feedback plan is in place. We suggest that you communicate before the system changes, as well as being there on the day it’s implemented. This way, you can ensure that the system is right for the users’ needs, as well as to handle any questions.


Samson Corporation, a commercial property management company in Auckland, New Zealand, has recycling in their multi-tenanted buildings down to a fine art. Each tenant must have a recycling captain that is Samson’s key contact for any recycling or sustainability changes or issues, creating a clear and open line of communication and fostering tenant buy-in. Read more about their recycling success in multi-tenanted buildings here.

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Talking to your cleaners about recycling

Once you’ve decided to implement a recycling initiative you will need to contact your commercial cleaning company to inform and instruct them.

If possible present them with informative collateral – a handbook, or an online document that will show how to best service your recycling bins and work with the flow of your business. We’ve created a bin care and servicing poster to train your cleaning team that you can download and print here.

With the Method System, individual desk bins are replaced by communal recycling stations, meaning that the time it takes to remove your waste is significantly reduced. This will need to be carefully communicated to your contractors as they are responsible for the way bin liners are implemented and that they are the right colours for the right bins, along with the overall upkeep of your recycling bins system.

Cleaners are key to your sustainability journey, able to track the rates of your success, and monitor and report back on areas of improvement.