[cyclotic]

My city recently gave us big rolling trash and recycling bins. The blue bin is somewhere behind my house. Unused

[HollyB]

Recently? I’ve had them for over 10 years now. If a truck is coming around every week, why not recycle the cans, paper, and plastic? I keep a small bin by my trash can in my kitchen - for recyclable items and dump those items in the recycling bin each day. I think it’s a good habit to get into.

[moovova]

“My city recently gave us big rolling trash and recycling bins.”

We have a gray 55gal bin for general garbage collected weekly. City passed out green 55gal bins years ago to replace the small red recycle tubs (which we got to keep)...with collection every two weeks. We were given the option of returning the green rollouts. I’m sure that window has passed. I grew to appreciate the green bin as it allows us to get rid of a lot of garbage. With the recycles going in the green bin, space in the gray bin is now freed up to get rid regular garbage PLUS lots of “non-standard/unapproved” garbage... rocks, dirt, stumps, paint cans, lumber, etc. Garbage guys and gals won’t see this stuff unless they’re forced to use the manual dumper on a replacement garbage truck as opposed to the big arm that reaches over and lifts the bin up to dump into the top-loader trucks. I’ve been safe so far...knock on wood. Seriously, I’ve gotten rid of several cubic yards of dirt.