In my large 10 floor apartment building, built in the late 60's, there are 3 garbage chutes per floor, and it seems they are used for general non-recyclable garbage that will fit in the chutes, and probably some organic garbage.
In the basement parking area there is an enclosed area with large blue bins for recyclables, which are hauled up to the driveway every Monday by the building staff, to be emptied by recyclable garbage trucks, and then hauled back down by the staff to the basement area. They are usually full again by Friday afternoon, so no point trying to take recyclable garbage down to them over the weekend.
Outside there are several large brown garbage bins for items that won't fit in the chutes. They are emptied every Friday by garbage trucks, and rarely fill up.
There are also 6 small green organic garbage bins, located along the side of the driveway, which are mainly used for poop bags, cuz a lot of the people in the building have dogs. It may be that some tenants also use the green bins outside for organic human food garbage, but I doubt it...
I would not want to live in a medium to high rise apartment or condo building that does not have chutes!
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