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West Roxbury gets mutant recycling bins
By adamg on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 9:39pm
Karl Stier reports on the new plus-sized bins rolled out across West Roxbury this past week:
... The weight limit is listed at 250 lbs. so one could safely toss Julio Lugo in there and he would finally be dispensed with properly. ...
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Harder to handle
I saw a string of 'em on Park St.....I thought I was on Blue Man Group's Easter Island.
Those bins are gonna be tough for some of us to get in and out of the domicile.....haven't gotten mine yet. At least they have wheels...
recycle dumptser
The new bins - recycle dumptser - are too big to keep in the house. The wheels are nice but I would not choose to store the recycle dumptser in a place that requires me to go up or down stairs to move it to the curb on garbage day.
Some people have a space for them in their driveways and others have space in their garages.
This is a test so maybe some feedback will help them get it right.
They look a little big to
They look a little big to me.
My city has combined recycling, but we only get these itty bitty bins that can barely hold our newspapers and soda bottles let alone anything else, so we end up with two or three of em. Id love to have a garbage can sized contained , it would do wonders for my back.
Giants
I got a flyer telling me we are getting one of these soon. This seems like a great idea for those of us in Roslindale, JP, West Roxbury and other parts of the city with lots of single family detached houses but I wonder how its going to work out in, say, South Boston? Considering that my recycling now gets piled precariously on my little blue bin I'm glad to have this incredible hulk of bins coming. Hopefully it will also cut down on the amount of recycling blowing around on the street on trash day. Anyone know if the City will take back the little blue bin or should we rerecycle them in the big blue bins?
Agreed on single and two-family homes
We currently perch our (cracked and falling apart) bin atop one of the garbage cans outside our side door. Another large can won't make much difference and if it let's us recycle things such as pizza and cardboard boxes (which our current crew sniffs at, then refuses to take), all the better.
Anyone know if the City will
HILARIOUS , Actually I think that would be great if thats how it worked. Although I can just imagine all these massive bins sitting on the side of the road with the little bins sticking out of them.
We washed our old little
We washed our old little blue bin and now keep it inside the house. Our daily recycling is put into the little bin and we empty it into the newer large recyle container (kept outside) daily. I feel good about the new system being put into place and hope it's successful.
More on the giant recycling bins
Anyone know if the City will take back the little blue bin or should we rerecycle them in the big blue bins?
Yes, but they prefer that you double-bag them first.
Ba-dump-bump
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Today's Globe editorial page hopes that use of the gigundo 95-gallon bins will help improve our miserable 17 percent recycling rate. My many-unit building in town uses the green and blue legacy recycling bins, so we'll no doubt be upsized as well.
Reward to come
Hang on, WR. Your plaudits and initiation into the recycling club will come.
Consider the reward that we pioneer (guinea pig?) neighborhoods got. Your very own mayor will likely give you a piece of recyclable paper with your area's trash/recycling ratio and improvement.
beware
Someone must really like these new bins, I didn't have mine for more than 12 hrs before it was stolen from my backyard!! Not sure who is stealing it since everyone in my neighborhood got them on the same day and half the people on my street still had theirs sitting on the curb.
That is so sad
- one of those inexplicable neighborhood happenings. I had this happen with a trash can once. Um, hopefully it was not intentionally taken, because if it was, it's pathetic.
When someone either hops the
When someone either hops the fence in the back or walks up my long driveway takes a recycling bin, how can that not be intentional? Why would someone be in my backyard otherwise?
Ridiculous
Anyone want to steal ours?
It just arrived and I have no idea what to do with it. We have a single-family in Roslindale, but even we have nowhere to put it. Yes, our smaller bins are overflowing sometimes, but this thing is 50% larger than our regular trash can (which is rarely half-full. I already wrote city hall asking how to return it. I'm guessing they're not going to let me do that.
We recycle religiously, but there are only two of us living here, and this thing is big enough for an apartment building.
welcome to the neighborhood
The good news is that large-bin all-in recycling is an experiment.
In select neighborhoods, the city is trying to determine whether they can reduce garbage by increasing recycling.
It obvious that many residents in similar situations feel the same way you do about these gi-normous bins. We'll see if the city makes adjustments or whether the only solution is "one size fits all," super-size me. I'll bet you there's a big contract for someone in here somewhere.
Like you, I live in a one-family with no good place to store a gi-normous bin. Now, I keep recycling in the kitchen; paper goes in a brown paper bag, glass and plastic go in a blue recycling bin - both are kept next to the kitchen garbage can.
There is no place in the kitchen for this gi-normous thing. It is too big to keep in the house, not that it would be easy to move out the front door and down the stairs on garbage day.
I'm also not interested in keeping the gi-normous bin in the detached garage and running out of the house every time I have recyclable materials to dispose. That said, I'm glad someone is working the issue.
March of the Giant Bins
I don't know if they just delivered them today or what, but these giants of recycling stood guard outside almost every single house on Beech Street between Washington and Poplar today.
I'll steal yours.
I'll steal yours. Put a $20 in it and tell me the address.
My neighboors can even fill one of those tiny bins
The people living around me can't even be bothered to recycle. They use the small binds for anything but recycling. I have no idea what they are going to do with this giant thing.
These seem to be showing up in Roslindale now ...
...albeit in a fairly random pattern.
Ayup
All along Beech and Glendower from Washington to Poplar, where they just stop (maybe they're afraid of us tough guys; or maybe the city considers the other side of Poplar as "Hyde Park").
RE: “Recycle More”
RE: “Recycle More” Overwhelmed in Roslindale. After weeks of watching my friends and neighbors struggle with their 95 gallons of big bright blue urban blight, we finally had our 3 "bins" plunked down in front of our house this morning. Given the fact that the skinny elderly women who lives downstairs and eats like a bird does recycle, she produces very little. Although she is a proud recycler, I can't wait to see her dragging her 95 gallon "bin" this winter down the long drive way and over the steps in the snow. I may even sell tickets to watch my other neighbor with the gimpy leg drag his around. We as a community should, and probably will, just end up keeping these neighborhood eyesores out on the sidewalks, day in and day out, looking like the back alleys of some run down city in a recession. Typical government bureaucracy; too little too late, or overkill. This IS over kill. I understand there is a state wide "program" being set here for recycling. Bravo! I just think that homeowners should be able to request the amount of these hideous burdens they require, and hey, if their recycling runneth over then ticket them. That could be almost as big a money maker as the lack of parking for the average hard working Joe is in Boston. (You know, the ones who are rebuilding this fine City brick by brick and plank by plank. Ya, two hour non-commercial meters don't work for them. ) But, that's another rant altogether. I can't wait 'till whomever had this bright idea gets their big bright blue 95 gallons/150 lb. capacity of burden.
Overwhelmed in Roslindale
Share your Bin
In some cities, you ask for the size of bin you think you need. You are allowed to share, too, if you don't use much but your neighbor does - or doesn't - or you want to save some bucks by sharing one big one instead of two little ones.
Why don't you share your bin with the elderly woman? That way, you can haul it to the curb and it will be more full and she won't be overwhelmed by the task.
65-gallon ones
I think you can get the smaller size by calling the DPW.