The ground-floor waste rooms are accessed directly from the lobbies. To economize on space, residents in the middle core share a waste room with one of the other two. Inside, there are bins for the four streams: single-stream recycling, refuse, glass and cardboard/bulk waste.
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As we can see from the illustration, Zero-Waste-Apartment-Layout has many fascinating aspects to explore.