Residential Above, Retail Below: Mixed-Use Buildings Run Two Waste Programs Under One Roof

A building with apartments upstairs and a storefront at street level sits on a regulatory boundary most liner programs ignore. The residential stream and the commercial stream are collected by different parties under different rules, and the building is what gets named when they mix. Here is how to run two separate liner programs at one address across NY, NJ, and CT.

Walk into almost any block in Brooklyn, Jersey City, or downtown Stamford and you will pass the same building shape a dozen times: apartments on the upper floors, a nail salon or a deli or a dental office at street level, one front door for the residents and one for the business, and one sidewalk where everything ends up on collection night. That building is not one waste operation. It is two, and they answer to different parties. The residential floors are typically served by municipal collecti...

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