TIPS - Assist Businesses in Eliminating Litter

• Place an adequate number of trash containers in parking lots as well as inside and outside of all building entrances.
• Establish a regular schedule for emptying trash containers. Avoid having trash emptied on an 'as needed' basis. This will prevent trash overflows.
• Replace broken, dirty or damaged containers.
• Use only covered trash containers to eliminate trash from spilling or blowing out.

• Establish the expectation that employees will pick up trash anywhere in or around your place of business. Let them know that it is not acceptable to walk past litter.
• Removed trapped litter from fence lines on a regularly scheduled basis.
• Establish smoking areas with appropriate ash receptacles for employees and customers.

• Place only tied bags of trash in outdoor dumpsters. This greatly decreases loose trash from blowing out of the dumpster during collection.
• Call the city's Solid Waste Department when your dumpster is near to overflowing, or if your current level of service is not sufficient. Change or increase scheduled pickups, if necessary.
• Enclose dumpsters with fences or walls to minimize the amount of trash that will blow to other areas of your business or onto city streets and rights-of-way. Remove trash from the enclosure area regularly.

• Commit to reducing loose trash from company vehicles by:
• Requiring tarps on any vehicles transporting materials.
• Requiring tightly sealed containers to transport materials that are not covered by tarps.
• Instructing drivers to pick up any materials that have fallen off of their load.
• Instructing drivers to discard cigarette butts in vehicle ashtrays.
• Adding trash bags to company vehicles.