City to sell recycle bins on Saturday
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City To Sell Recycle Bins
Providence residents will be able to purchase recycling bins on Saturday.Published: November 20, 2009
PROVIDENCE—Providence residents will be able to purchase recycling bins from the Department of Public Works at five satellite locations throughout the city on Saturday, Nov. 21 from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m.
Residents still have the option of using any waterproof container from home for recycling, as long as they label the container and separate the paper products from the plastic items.
“We didn’t want the cost to be a bear to anyone which is why we put the flexibility of using containers from your own home,“ said Alix Ogden, Providence director of operations. “We just want people to recycle. We’re not as concerned about them buying the official bin.“
For those who would like to purchase bins from the city, the limited number of blue and green containers may be purchased on Saturday for $5 each.
Locations include: Joslin Recreation Center, 17 Hyat Street; Selim Rogers Recreation Center, 60 Camden Avenue, Phone: 455-8854; Vincent Brown Recreation Center, 438 Hope Street, Phone: 273-2390; West End Recreation Center, 109 Bucklin Street, Phone: 461-4570; and the Department of Recreation, One Recreation Way, Phone: 421-7740 ext. 323.
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Posted by eurosport on November 19, 2009 at 7:38 pm
“I just hope this mandatory recycling effort benefits the City of Providence directly and not the scavengers which pick through all the bins in Pawtucket with little to no enforcement - that is my only concern.“
And as soon as there is “enforcement” of this law, law enforcement will come under criticism for not having more important crime to investigate. Am I right?
There will be a “Share a Can” program started after the 1st of the year. Those who have extra cans in their recycle bin, they will be able to drop them off at a selected location to help those who claim thay have nothing to recycle. The “nothing to recycle” people will be able to go to that location, pay a small fee for this program and grab some recycle items. In turn those fees will be shared by those who dropped the items off.
Your a good man any1home!
Sorry Chesapeake, I guess I should have quoted eurosport, and then posted my comments. They in no way were aimed at you. And I agree with your comments totally. Why shouldn’t someone willing to go through trash be able to reap the rewards from it.
Uh Oh now you got me started….
I’ll be brief..
No any1home I was being sarcastic in my accolade’s to Eurosport. How another human being could be concerned about or begrudge anyone who would grope through the garbage to get a few bucks for what ever the reason is to me someone who needs a lesson in humanity.
Some people think their town ,their city, their country , is the bureaucratic system that runs it. I always have believed that it’s the people who live in it. The elite, the wealthy, the poor and the destitute. We have a pension in this country to look at the poor and homeless as undeserving. and anything they come by is unearned.
So you go right ahead and call the people you thought I was… loser’s…because they are and they have. They have lost something that was God given and then taken away buy their constant day to day struggles..
Insulated by their creature comforts to the point where the only humans they connect to are ones in there monetary class.
This is a huge problem across this country. That city’s and towns would rather not see the homeless. Our country would rather help people in other countries than our own. You see them as people and so do I.
Slim Fast cans….lmao
Wine bottles are recyclable? What a LOSER.
I think you need to be authorized by The City of Providence to become the official scavenger avenger. You could patrol the neighborhoods and bring all these poor can pickers to justice. In time you might even receive the coveted Campbell Soup Can award for your diligence. Nobody could accuse you of having a narrow mind. It’s a known fact that all these can pickers are in fact very wealthy well fed Alcoholics.
Nope - my mother lives in Paris - it’s probably your pregnant sister or your toothless mom that’s loves the cans in my bin - they come around every week.
You seem to have me confused with your mother.
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