Our apartment house is small and heated by stoves. The residents are poor and do not buy newspapers. They burn their papers in the stoves in order to get warm. There is nothing to put in the wastepaper container. Why should we have one?

Wastepaper has high reusable value.  For example, one ton of wastepaper saves 17 trees.  Paper is used for starting a fire, but a lot of paper, such a advertisements, magazines, and other forms of glossy paper, is not suitable for that.  A condominium not wanting a wastepaper container could keep in the basement or some other room a box in which to collect wastepaper and hand it over to the hauler whenever necessary.