Comments on: City's Public Recycle Bins Cause Confusion http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/09/22/citys-public-recycle-bins-cause-confusion/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:26:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Decatur Metro http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/09/22/citys-public-recycle-bins-cause-confusion/#comment-2912 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:01:47 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-2912 Who’s the official response from Carl? The Solid Waste and Street Cleaning division?

]]> By: Carl http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/09/22/citys-public-recycle-bins-cause-confusion/#comment-2911 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:50:37 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-2911 This is unfortunately another Mayberry-like situation in my book. The official response is that the containers ARE a different color (you didn’t notice? Yeah, you and the rest of the world). If they were a different size or style and/or were placed adjacent to trash cans (rather than *in place of*), I believe it would really help as well. I watched on Saturday night as a BSP server dumped food scraps into the one near them (hey, it does say recycle!). I’ve even seen people do a double-take when about to throw something in; then they see all of the trash inside and shrug their shoulders (and toss more in). Meanwhile, there’s nothing to guide, say, the SBUX patron to tell them to put that plastic container in a recycle bin one door down instead of the trash can on the corner. If they were at least adjacent, it would help solve the problem.

I’m certainly grateful that we have containers and that the City is making an attempt to do the right thing. I just wish that more thought and input had gone into this process and that they would’ve stopped and acknowledged the problem when the containers actually arrived rather than just smiling and suggesting that people will figure it out. They haven’t, and I don’t think they ever will. I’ve also heard stories about (but not witnessed) Sanitation employees manually sorting through the recycling in slow motion as they are emptying the cans. We need a functional public recycling system instead.

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