Wanted: Blue recycling bins!

[squirrelitude]

Just the other day I pulled an old-style blue recycling bin out of someone's zero-sort toter for use as a planter. I guess this means that 1.5 years later, there are still some of the old bins kicking around. All of ours are in use as planters (for plants that are watered by hand or don't mind poor drainage) or to hold collected dry leaves for the compost bin.

Does anybody here have a couple of bins in reasonably good shape that they want to have go to a good home? I'm in the Tufts area, but I'd be happy to pick up a couple bins from someone in roughly a mile radius from Davis or Teele.

(If it turns out there are many offering and asking, I guess this could become an exchange thread.)

Comments

[mwsound.livejournal.com]

You can pick up mine! I'm on Wilson Avenue behind the 7-11 off of Broadway. I'll leave it out front. I've been trying to get rid of it but they won't take it.

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

Technically aren't they recyclable by putting them in the new "barrels"?

[mwsound.livejournal.com]

You would think. I tried that a few times and they never took it. They kept on taking it out of the barrel and putting it on the side. Thus why I still have it!

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

It's like an old Bill Cosby routine about how hard it is to throw away a trash can.

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

that's why when we had to throw out several trash cans, my husband took his sawz-all and cut them into a bunch of smaller pieces to put in the recycle bin. :)

[squirrelitude]

Awesome!

I think tonight (Thursday) is the earliest I'll be able to swing by.

ETA: I picked it up. Thank you! I think I'll be growing delicata squash in it. :-)

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Ours is still in use, because I need a place to put the recycling in my kitchen before I bring it out to the giant toter,
and I'd finally worked out a good spot for the small blue bin that way. (I made a point of getting a new one just after
the announced the toter project, but before they phased out the small blue bins, so it can keep kicking for a while longer.)

[somervillesnow.livejournal.com]

I have 2 or 3 in good shape. I'm going to use them for moving Sept 1st. If you still want more then, I'll be happy to give them to you.

[squirrelitude]

I'll be moving this summer, so I'm not sure if I'll even be in the DS area anymore. :-(

[nurrynur.livejournal.com]

I'd happily take them at that point if your offer is transferable?