Where Bagged Waste Waits: Fire Code, Egress, and Why the Corridor Is the Wrong Answer
Between the last liner change and the hauler's arrival, bagged waste has to sit somewhere. That somewhere is a fire and egress question before it is a convenience question, and the corridor is the answer most buildings default to.
Every commercial building has a gap between the moment waste is bagged and the moment it leaves. In a small office that gap might be two hours. In a building with twice-weekly collection it can be days. During that gap the waste has to physically be somewhere, and almost nobody decides where. It accumulates in whatever space is nearest and least contested, which is usually a corridor, a stairwell landing, a service vestibule, or the area immediately inside a rear exit. Each of those is a bad ans...
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