Multifamily Compliance
Denver requires compost and recycling at every apartment and condo community with 8 or more units. Melly's builds the compliance file and handles the part you cannot control: your residents.
Denver's composting mandate hits every building with 8 or more units.
Twelve questions. Two minutes. Know exactly where your building stands.
WHY THIS HITS YOU
Denver's Universal Recycling and Composting Ordinance, also called Waste No More, covers every residential building with 8 or more units inside city limits.
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Apartments, condos, and mixed-use properties have to provide compost and recycling for residents, not just trash.
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Most property managers have not heard of it yet. That is exactly why buildings get caught.
DOES THIS APPLY TO YOU
You have to comply if:
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Your building is inside Denver city limits
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It has 8 or more units
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It is an apartment, condo, or mixed-use property
You are exempt if:
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Your property is a townhome or rowhome on a Denver Solid Waste account
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Your building is in Glendale, which is its own city and not under Denver's mandate
WHAT THE CITY REQUIRES
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Compost and recycling collection through a Denver-licensed hauler
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Labeled bins at every trash location, including trash rooms and common areas
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Compliant signage in English and Spanish
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Resident education
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Enough service capacity
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Records and annual reporting
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written Waste Diversion Plan on file
THE HARD PART
The hard part is not the bins.
It is the residents.​
In a restaurant you train your staff once. In a 200-unit building you have hundreds of households who did not sign up for this, move in and out constantly, and drop whatever they want down the chute. One contaminated load can get the whole building's compost rejected. Then there is space. Most trash rooms were never built for a third stream. That combination is why multifamily is the hardest segment to get compliant, and it is exactly what Melly's is built to solve.
HOW MELLY'S HANDLES IT
We assess your trash rooms and chutes, then design a bin layout that actually fits
We run your capacity math in gallons and confirm your service meets the organics floor
We install clear, bilingual signage built to cut contamination
We give you resident-facing education: move-in cards, posters, and digital notices you can push through your tenant portal
We confirm your hauler agreement covers compost and recycling, not just trash
We write and file your Waste Diversion Plan
We keep your records and handle the monthly and annual reporting the city expects
WHY MELLY'S
(the multifamily differentiator: portfolios and HOAs)
Managing more than one building? Even easier.
Run a portfolio and we set up every property under one agreement, with consistent signage and a single point of contact. One conversation covers your whole book.
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HOA and condo boards, this applies to you too, and almost nobody in your world is talking about it yet.
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We walk your board through it in plain language and handle the path from vote to compliant, so it does not become another six-month agenda item.