Twixlen
The Weston District
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FireEngine said:
Thump...thump...thumpHad bins dropped off in my neighborhood here in the eastside pseudoburbs.
Went through my trash and pulled all the recyclables even though it's six weeks before pick up day.
By the time last Monday rolled around, my bin was stuffed, I had a huge stack of flattened boxes & 2 full bags - they took it all.
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First Day of New Recycling Program Nets 400 Tons of Material
Published on June 13, 2012
By: Walker
The City of Columbus officially launched the new city-wide curbside recycling program in March and began distributing carts to westside neighborhoods including Franklinton, The Hilltop and Westland.
The first collection day took place last Monday, June 4th, and brought in a total of 400.9 tons of plastics, glass and other reusable materials. This collection is being touted by city leaders as resulting in a $22,217 savings in landfill dumping fees.
READ MORE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/first-day-of-new-recycling-program-nets-400-tons-of-material
Snarf
Dystopia
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Franklin Park has the bins nows.
I have some reservations...
Where the hell do you put them is one? Our narrow brick alley has two 300 gallon trash containers on each side of my garage driveway that serve the two homes behind mine and one to the south. There literally is NO space for adding FOUR 90 gallon containers?
Also, does anyone know why you can't put plastic bags in them? What are you supposed to put recycling in before dumping in blue bin? Magic invisible bags? And what are you supposed to do with plastic bags?
Another, isn't this a goldmine for alley surfers picking cans? I hope these bums don't dump recycling all over the alley in an effort to pick cans for meth habits.
And if all that isn't enough, they're unsightly. Thank god I don't live on a street that has trash pickup out front and would have to look at them all the time.
geoyui
West Side
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Snarf said:
Thank god I don't live on a street that has trash pickup out front and would have to look at them all the time.
Recycling and trash on my street is picked up out front and I have to say I think having blue bins out front helps with promoting recycling within our community. Kind of that mentality "the neighborhood is doing it, crap I need to do it" thinking. They are certainly easier on the eyes then our trash bins.
And I'm really happy, we were the only ones recycling with our little red bin out there (which we filled to the brim) and now almost everyone is recycling.
I'm all for the size, fits snuggly next to our door that connects the kitchen to the garage and it's thin enough to manuever between the cars in the garage. We fill it up 3/4 of the way every cycle.
melikecheese
Merion Village
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I am really enjoying having the blue bin, my trash does not get filled as fast!
As far as where to put them, I put mine behind my house by the back door so I can just throw things in the bin as I have them, solves the no plastic bag issue, just put things right in the bin, not in a bag first. Gonna rig up a string and attach a hook to the top of the lid so I can just pull the string to open the lid, drop the stuff in off the deck and let the lid drop.
I am curious just how lining these things up along the alley is going to work. I think a total of 6 households share 1 bin at the alley corner where I am, just the way is lined up with a condo and a extra house in the alley.
I do find it funny some people don't seem to understand what to do with them. One person seems to think they should always be next to the 300 gallon, several think that it should remain on the sidewalk were the city dropped it...
Snarf
Dystopia
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The city says they will be picked up next to where you normally put your trash and for me that's the 300 gallon container on the alley.
So if not there, where does it remain? I don't like having this huge 90 gallon container in my tiny backyard and theres no way in hell I'm giving it garage space.
All the while I do want to recycle. Ugh.
Walker
The KLD / Downtown / Gay Street
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Snarf said:
Where the hell do you put them is one? Our narrow brick alley has two 300 gallon trash containers on each side of my garage driveway that serve the two homes behind mine and one to the south. There literally is NO space for adding FOUR 90 gallon containers?
Keep it in your garage or inside your backyard fence and put it out on the morning of pickup. Doesn't need to be in the alley all the time. Would that work?
Edit: Just saw your reply about not wanting to store it that way. I guess it's a good thing it's a smaller container. Have to squeeze it in somewhere I reckon...
Snarf said:
Also, does anyone know why you can't put plastic bags in them? What are you supposed to put recycling in before dumping in blue bin? Magic invisible bags? And what are you supposed to do with plastic bags?
Plastic bags can easily get caught in the sorting/recycling machinery and shut down the conveyor systems...
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If you've got a container in your house where you keep recycling before taking it out to the bin, I imagine they want you to not use a bag, and just keep it directly in the can, and dump it in the bin.
If you're talking about smaller grocery store bags (Kroger, Giant Eagle, whatever) you can return those to the store to recycle. They have collection containers in the front area usually near the shopping carts.
Snarf said:
Another, isn't this a goldmine for alley surfers picking cans? I hope these bums don't dump recycling all over the alley in an effort to pick cans for meth habits.
Yeah, hoping that's not the case either. I've heard this concern repeated by other folks.
Snarf said:
And if all that isn't enough, they're unsightly. Thank god I don't live on a street that has trash pickup out front and would have to look at them all the time.
Our trash pickup is out front, and we keep our trash container by our back door. Wheel it out to the curb the night before pickup, and usually wheel it back by 9am after trash it picked up. The only time anyone sees it out there is for a few hours on Tuesday morning. I imagine we'll do the same with recycling every other week.
evantyler
East of Parsons
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My block's bins were dropped off on Saturday morning, and to a couple of my elderly owner-occupant neighbors, they might as well have been UFOs. They were so puzzled as to what the bins were and why they got them. One in particular just stared at it for a few minutes before even touching it. I just assumed everyone knew the bins were coming, but I guess I'm probably a little more tuned in to information/news than some.
I took the time to explain it to them (hey, it never hurts to chat with your neighbors!) and I'm hoping they'll contribute to the recycling effort.
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Columbus' Green Plan Leaves Residents With Big Blue 'Eyesores'
Friday July 13, 2012 6:54 AM
UPDATED: Friday July 13, 2012 6:59 AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Some residents said Thursday that they were struggling with a big blue problem. Hundreds of German Village residents received 64-gallon recycling containers this week as a part of the city's nearly $9 million curbside recycling plan. Resident Norm Hall said that he is happy to see the city launch the green initiative, but is having a difficult time with the bin.
READ MORE: http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/07/13/columbus-some-residents-call-recycling-bins-eyesores.html
Walker
The KLD / Downtown / Gay Street
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It sounds like the complaints are just the common reaction to people who don't like it when things change.
I imagine there was similar noise made when fire hydrants were first installed. They're taking up all the room on the sidewalk! How are we supposed to walk around them?!? Why can't we go back to just not having fire hydrants like before?
Twixlen
The Weston District
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Just an FYI --- most all of the stuff of mine that goes in the blue container is in a bag. It's been in a bag when going to the large dumpsters, and I've no other good way of managing the stuff inside my house. It's not been a problem.
I even had extra stuff, bagged, sitting around the bin, and they took it.
I love having the dang thing - it's so much better than hauling all that crap to the dumpsters.
Twixlen
The Weston District
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tourist19
Merion Village
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Mine is over half full and doesn't get picked up till July 31st. I'm soooooooo happy with it!
I thought the no plastic bags meant more along the lines they couldn't take like grocery store bags to recycle. I am sure I will have extra bags of recycling at least in the beginning.
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