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resolution2012. The new trash toters were introduced with attached flyer explaining that the large blue toters are now for recyclables only. The fliers ended up all over the street and many residents (especially in large multi-family buildings) are using both large & small toters for trash. City needs a much more aggressive education program re. proper use of toters--followed by aggressive fining for non-compliance (yet another way to lower our taxes while socking it to those who are trashing our neighborhoods...).
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If you read the City's informational brochure about recycling, you will realize that most items people think are trash are actually recycable: Paper, cardboard, newspapers, many kinds of plastics, and the list goes on. It's so much more than cans and bottles these days. The only trash should be food related garbage, everything else can be recycled. So get educated! Fill the big blue with recycling and fill the small brown with garbage!
Joker wants to cling to the old ways when he doesn't realize that those ways will be the end of Gotham City as we know it. Oh wait..that's what he wants.
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John (客人)
I think the most aggressive way to enforce would be easy.
First, dont pick it up if its not in the right container and STOP paying the garbage men to look in every recycle container. Warning stickers on cans could be a much easier and less costly.
Second, dont pick it up if its multiple bags outside of the can on the ground especially with no big blue can anywhere to be seen. ONLY pick up what fits inside the brown.
Its time to stop coddling the ignorant, its gone on way too long.
John (客人)
oh yeah-
third- didnt the mayor say the new brown cans would get weighed and people would eventually pay by the pound? when exactly is that going to happen? I see new trucks, I see new bins...
Christopher Schaefer 4 Congress.Com (注册用户)
Director of Public Works John Prokop and Christine Tang who is the head of the Office of Sustainability (recycling) will be attending the next Hill South Management Team meeting Jan. 18th, 2012 at 6:00 PM at the Hill South Police Substation, 410 Howard Ave. They will be addressing any concerns residents [taxpayers/voters] have about the recycling program--such as everything that's been posted here in SeeClickFix.
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John (客人)
Taxes for people with no children already go towards other peoples children, should they pay for their garbage too? NO!
And Chris, I believe you are wrong. Aluminum is worth way way more than glass so weighing the recyclables would make no sense(of course this is New Haven)
We must have really nice garbage men, they have been picking up garbage out of the blue bins for 2 months now.
Christopher Schaefer 4 Congress.Com (注册用户)
However, the original plan fell through due to financial difficulties with RecycleBank (article from March, 2010):
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/recycling_reforms_to_be_phased_in/
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Having said that, I still encourage everyone to "get with the program" and put any kind of paper, glass, cardboard, metal, and plastic--EXCEPT plastic bags!--into the blue toter. Mr. Prokop explained that the computer that sorts the recyclables can't read through plastic bags, so anything that's in a plastic bag gets charged to the city as trash.
Also do NOT put electronics (TVs, computers, etc.) into the blue toters. Currently these need to be dropped off at Public Works on Middletown Ave.--at no charge. (Barnard Environmental Magnet School at the intersection of E.T. Grasso Boulevard and Derby Ave. had been accepting electronics as well, but I'm waiting for a call-back from the school to find out if that is still the case. Secretary who answered didn't think so, but wasn't sure. I left message with person in charge of that program at Barnard and will post update when they get back to me.)
Construction/demolition materials can be disposed of at Public Works, but for a fee based on weight. (Or you can pay for a dumpster for such materials. Compare rates via the internet to get best price.)
JOKER (客人)
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BLUE CONTAINER:
PAPER of any kind (white, colored, junk mail, magazines, juice/milk cartons, catalogs, newspapers, books, paper bags)
METAL (cans, empty aerolsol cans, clean pie pans, aluminum foil, jar lids, bottle caps, small amounts of miscellaneous scrap metal)
PLASTIC (bottles, jugs, tubs)
GLASS (bottles, jars, smaller pieces of broken glass, e.g. window panes)
CARDBOARD
Smaller dark BROWN CONTAINER:
food scraps, diapers, plastic bags, plastic saran-wrap type food wrapping, styrofoam-type containers
Notice that there really isn't much that's supposed to go in the smaller container, but there's LOTS of stuff that's supposed to go in the larger Blue container.
An easy way to do this is to keep one small trash container in your kitchen (like most people already do) for food scraps, plastc bags, diapers, etc. and put that out each day in the brown toter.
Keep a Separate small trash container somewhere convenient in your home, e.g. perhaps near an exit door, and put all the cans, junk mail, bottles, etc. in that. Each time it fills up, dump that stuff in the Blue container.
So it's really only one extra step more than what we've all been doing already.
See my previous post regarding electronics & construction/demolition material. (Leaves & yard waste only are picked up April to Dec., leaves in paper bags only. I think most people finally have figured that one out!)
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Please Check out this link.
http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/Sustainability/Recycling/Single_Stream.asp
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Thanks
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Last week my area finally received the stickers on blue toters (like the one "John" posted a photo of c. 1 month ago), explaining (in English & Spanish) what the blue toters may and may not be used for.
Today Public Works did not empty any blue toters that had garbage in them, which I think is great. HOWEVER, nearly all of these garbage-filled toters were filled incorrectly by renters living in absentee-landlord-owned properties: in other words, people who don't give a poop because they know it's the landlord--not they--who ultimately will be held resposible.
So would Public Works or LCI please let us know what the next step will be--before New Haven becomes Trash Haven?
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Howard Ave: Nos. 356, 337, 314, 267, 184-186, 157 [=Laundromat; toters left on Fifth St.];
Greenwich Ave: Nos. 431 [toters are on First St.], 417, 375-381 [toters are on Second St.], 312, 303, 207-205;
First St.: No. 80;
Fifth St.: No. 79;
Hallock AVENUE: Nos. 288, 222 [toters are on Second St.], 196, 170-172
(I omitted several that are in front of homes whose owners or renters I know. Also, by the time you check these properties out, the toters may have been pulled off the treestrip/sidwalk.)
This list was compiled while taking a 10 minute drive around a rather small area, but I’ll bet there are plenty more like this all over the city….
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That's quite a list.
We will follow up as best we can.
Thank you for the detailed post.
Mike (客人)
I would imagine that the the garbage/recyclers people could give LCI/DPW could give a very accurate quote eh? these are the guys who could tell you the percentages of people in the neighborhoods who dont actually understand the new city policies and still put garbage in the blue bins, I'm sure.
Its going to take many fines before people get it around here. Many many fines, quote me.
duh (客人)
At hand here is that you expect the city to force change learned behavior on a massive scale.
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ALDERMEN CAN BE KEY to recycling rates, said Martinez. In Fair Haven, the rollout of the new Toters was accompanied by a big push by the local aldermen. The neighborhood hit the 20-percent range relatively quickly.” http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/city_cashes_in_on_rising_recycling/
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