When the Power Goes Out, Your Waste Stream Stops Too

A building outage stops the compactor, the chute and the freight elevator at the same time, and waste keeps arriving anyway. What actually fails, and how to plan the liner side of it before the next one.

Most continuity planning in a tri-state building covers the obvious: emergency lighting, elevator recall, life safety systems, keeping tenants informed. Waste almost never appears on the list. It is treated as something that can wait a day. It cannot wait a day. Waste is the one building service where demand does not drop when the power does. A restaurant still produces the same volume of refuse during a blackout. An office still fills bins. A residential building still generates household waste...

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