Where to get a blue recycling box?

[guxx.livejournal.com]

Someone stole our box last week from the street. How to get a new one?

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[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

To obtain a recycling bin, please visit the DPW yard at 1 Franey Road, Monday-Friday, 8:00AM – 4:00 PM

Apart from not bothering to tell us where that is (like, say, by providing a link to a map?), once again Somerville forgets that people have jobs in Boston and can't always get to places in Somerville between 8am and 4pm on a weekday.

Great guys. If I never need to replace my blue bin, I'll have to take time off of work to do it...and hope to hell this isn't some place I need to drive to, since I don't drive.

[georgy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a super-pain that they don't deliver them to your house -- when I went there to pick up my bin after moving to Somerville in fall 2003, I was told that the person who used to do that had either quit or gotten laid off, and hadn't been replaced. Meh.

BTW, the 89 and 80 buses go right by there. Good luck.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Except...I don't take buses. Just the T; part of it is a general dislike of buses, and part of it is I buy only a Subway pass...

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

If you don't drive *and* you don't take buses, I don't think you really get to complain that there are things in places that are hard to get to.

Unless maybe you bike.

(And you don't need a pass to ride a bus, you know. $0.90 will do just fine.)

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry; I think I "get" to complain about whatever I feel like complaining about. I moved to Boston because I wanted to live in a city where take the subway. I had enough of taking buses in San Francisco; I don't take them here. After paying $44 for a Subway only pass, I'm done: I'm not paying another 90¢ to take a bus.

And I happen to be very proud of not driving; I haven't owned a car for almost 10 years. Which does more for the environment than any blue bin.

I walk.

[ron_newman]

I'm also a non-car-owning subway-pass user, but there really are places you need to take a bus to from time to time. The subway just doesn't go everywhere, some places are too far to walk to, and weather isn't always conducive to bicycling.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

interesting. i was told that they had had problems with people who did not actually live in somerville requesting bins. from what i was told, that's why they've started requiring proof of residency when you pick one up.

[ursamajor]

Closest buses are the 80 and the 89, but it's about a mile walk from the Davis Square T. Combined with the "only open when everyone is at work" hours, accessibility is clearly their first priority. ;)

Seriously, why couldn't they, say, drop off a recycling bin when they come around to do the trash? (And why does my 20-apartment building have only three bins?)

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with walking a mile to get the bin.

I'm not too crazy about walking a mile back carrying the bin...

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

Life is awfully hard sometimes.

FYI: Any bin will work; doesn't have to actually be the blue ones.

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

we always just put our recycleables in paper grocery bags...

[fanw.livejournal.com]

You can go there on a Saturday. Just drive in the lot and ask anybody. They'll find you the right person. (Though last time I went they had run out of recycling bins. It's worth calling to make sure they at least have some.)

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Really? Good to know.
I'll have to walk in the lot, but apart from that...Saturdays are good.

And good point about the possiblity of them being out. I could see that happen to me if I needed to go...