I’m a total dork for being excited about this. The city of Austin dropped off our new recycling bin yesterday. It’s the size of a regular trash can with wheels, and looks like it will hold 3-4 times the amount of recyclables as the old bins. They’re only going to pick up recycling every other week now, which will save on energy consumption, while allowing us to recycle more shtuff.
New Austin Recycling Cans Dropped Off
Oct 23rd, 2008 8:26:55am +0000
We have the same recycle cans in Bend Oregon. My wife and I fill it up in 2 weeks. It’s great for us and the environment. We downsized our trash can after this new recycle bin was delivered.
This was brilliant by the City of Austin. While trash can begin to smell, recycleable items can easily wait to be picked up. I think that this is very efficient. I am excited about this too! Nope, you’re not a dork.
Thanks,
Grant Pollet
Recycling bins are a good thing – they help the street clutter-free and maintain a clean environment. In our place recycle bins are color-coded so people will know what goes into what bin.
Here in Tampa we still use the bins. I’d love to have the cans, that way all my neighbors wouldn’t see how much beer and wine we drink during the week.
Too funny! I didn’t think about that as a benefit. I told my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago that our neighbors must think we’re running a frat house.
I love it also that the city will accept more things now including junk mail. I think there is enough of that to print phone books for everyone on the planet.
Nice Eric, we have to provide our own garbage and recycle cans. To tell the truth, recycling and stuff does not get me all excited, but I do it.
My neighborhood has the same type of ins, but we were forced to use them. The city said that they would no longer pick up our garbage or recycling unless it was in approved containers, like those, that we have to pay a monthly fee for in addition to the money we already spend on garbage and recycling service.
So due to the circumstances, we weren’t to happy about our new bins.
Jessica, we have the same thing going on here also. We actully got a letter the other day saying we put the wrong stuff in the Rec bin. If we do it again we have to go to garbage jail and pay a fine
Our trash company has been talking about doing the same thing for about six months. We have three little tiny containers for recycle material. I finally broke down and bought another trash can specifically for recycle because there is just so much stuff that can be recycled.