student rental garbage issues

[Charles Gaucher]

So rented out house as a student rental. Aimed for a group ended up filling with individual tenants. So not an ideal situation. I got property managers, their getting the boot in January from lack of putting in any management other then collecting rent.(when it's convenient for them I should add). Anyways so two of the tenants have automatic withdrawal, and the other three are international students so I have tk collect cash every month. (Property managers let this go for two months because I guess it's not continent to them). Anyways Im having issues with the garbage. The won't recycle. Well they just use any bin as garbage and I or my girlfriend end up having to pick it up bring it to the town recycling center and sort through it all. I work shift work gone 14/7 day rotation so now she's getting this overload and she's just had enough of it. What can I do to deal with this issue? Houses here are allowed one garbage bag per house and unlimited recycling or compost bins. Extra bags can be purchased at 2$ a bag.  

Can I hire someone to come and clean/sort this every week and bill them until they get their act together? This feels like I'll end up with an extra bill. 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Jonathan G.]

Welcome to BP,
The appropriate action is to charge the tenants for the extra bag(s). Currently there is no motivation for them to comply. You have allowed yourself to become their personal garbage service. It is your job to properly motivate them with the extra garbage bag charge. This will focus their attention on recycling. If they complain or refuse to pay for the extra garbage bags, THEN when they pay regular rent, the appropriate bag charge gets deducted first from the funds and the remaining rent is considered "unpaid". This is when you present them with formal eviction papers for unpaid rent which will further focus their attention on recycling.