Single-Stream Recycling

[smammy]

Somerville is switching to single-stream recycling citywide:

After nine months of testing an extremely popular zero-sort recycling pilot program in Ward 5, the City of Somerville has reached an agreement in principle with Casella Recycling LLC to take the program citywide this fall.

Yay!

Comments

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

They sound like the city-issued trash barrels in Lowell, which are also used in a lot of the surrounding towns. They have attached lids and wheels on the bottom. They're big and heavy and would be significantly more difficult to steal than the current bins. Lowell attaches a serial number to the barrels and issues them to the house, not the resident, so if you move, you leave it behind.

We didn't have a recycling bin at all during my six years in Somerville. We left everything at the curb in paper grocery bags. It was never a problem.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

A blind kitten would be harder to steal than the current bins. My bin is one I found in a wooded lot across from my current duplex after mine got stolen. It's from Brookline.