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Columbus, Ohio · Enrolling communities for fall 2026

Trash pickup at every door. Proof at every bag.

Clean Community collects trash, recycling, and food waste from your residents' doorsteps — then hands you the numbers on exactly what your community kept out of the landfill.

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No rewards program. No cash back. Just collection you can account for.

Photo: serviced container at a customer site

2023

Collecting in Columbus since

23

Sites on active routes

1,600+

Tracked collections

100%

Bags weighed and scanned

The problem

Your diversion number is a guess right now

One truck serves twenty properties and compacts everything together. Whatever number lands on your report was estimated backwards from a route total.

Mixed loads

One truck, twenty properties, one compactor. When it’s all packed together, nobody can say whose contamination it was — including you.

Estimates, not measurements

Your property’s figure is a share of a route total, not a measurement of what left your building.

No feedback loop

If residents are doing it wrong, nothing in the process tells them, so it never gets better.

We collect it bag by bag, from the door, so the number is actually yours.

How it works

Four steps, and a record at each one

Collection from your residents' front doors, weighed at our hub, delivered to a named facility. Every pound traces back to the building it came from.

01
Bags with codes

Residents get a roll of coded bags, a magnet, and a one-page guide. Included — nobody buys bags.

02
Doorstep pickup

An operator scans each bag at your resident’s front door. No toters, no curbside, no second dumpster.

03
Scanned in at the hub

Scanned again at the Clean Community Resource Hub, weighed by commodity, and checked for contamination.

04
You get the report

Pounds diverted, contamination flags, and where the material ended up — for your property alone.

Services

Three services, one set of numbers

Fresh Environmental Services
Valet trash & recycling

Doorstep collection of trash and recycling on your community’s schedule, sorted and tracked at our hub. Built for properties with no room for a second dumpster.

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Compost Clubhouse
Food waste

Weekly food-waste collection. Residents keep a 5-gallon bucket and we take the bag. Businesses get a serviced container on site.

Ask about food waste
Add-on
Container cleaning

A mobile truck cleans containers on site, so bins never become the reason residents stop participating.

Ask about scheduling

Reporting

Something you can take to the board

A monthly report, per property. Pounds collected, pounds diverted, contamination rate, and an environmental equivalency — the numbers a board asks for before it approves anything.

  • A monthly report per property, emailed to your site contact
  • Quarterly contamination notes and recommendations
  • Per-property figures, never a share of a route total
  • Every load tied to the facility that received it, against a scale ticket
  • Skip reasons documented, so a weather day isn’t a missed pickup
Monthly summary · sample
Riverbend Commons · 636 units
March 2026

Diverted from the landfill

4,180 lbs

Contamination rate

1.3%

Low — 4 flagged bags out of 312 collected.

Bags collected

312

Equivalent to

0.9 cars/yr

Pricing

One line item, everything included

Valet trash & recycling
$14/ unit / month
  • Doorstep collection on your community’s schedule
  • Coded bags and printed resident education included
  • Hub sorting, weighing, and contamination grading
  • Monthly property report with destinations
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Food waste
Priced per site
Compost Clubhouse collection depends on container count and route day. We'll quote it alongside your valet trash proposal.
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Properties are invoiced on contract. There is nothing to buy on this site.

For residents

You scanned a code. Here's what to do with it.

You don't sign up for anything and you don't pay us. Your community already has the service — this is just how it works.

Yes, please
Plain names on purpose — you shouldn't need to know a resin code to recycle.
  • Plastic bottlesEmpty and rinsed. Caps on.
  • Milk jugsRinse them out.
  • Detergent bottlesEmpty. Labels can stay on.
  • CardboardFlatten it so it fits.
  • Aluminum cansRinse. No need to crush.
  • Steel cansRinse. Lids inside the can.
  • Glass bottles & jarsRinse. Leave labels on.
Not in this bag
Still recyclable — just somewhere else.

Styrofoam

Local drop-off for now — we’re still working on an end user.

Plastic bags & film

Grocery-store drop-off bins take these.

Food scraps

That’s Compost Clubhouse — ask your manager to add it.

Ohio recycling rules (SWACO) →

Workforce

The people sorting your material are being trained for a career

Students spend one to two weeks in a classroom learning logistics, fulfillment, and quality control — how to identify commodities like cardboard, aluminum, and steel — then work six paid weeks at our hub.

The skills transfer to any employer, the same way a mock pharmacy trains a pharmacy tech who can go work anywhere. The training program carries its own name, not ours, so what graduates take with them belongs to them.

1–2 wks

Classroom training

6 wks

Paid work at the hub

Transferable

Skills, not a brand

Hands-on

Real scanners and scales

Service area

Columbus, Ohio and the surrounding communities

Check whether we're already running a route near you.

Questions we get asked

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Tell us about your property

Unit count is what we need to price it. We'll come back with a proposal you can put in front of your board.

This is what prices the job, so it's the one field we need.

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