Health & Fitness
Lets Encourage Recycling With Bigger Covered Containers And Not Tiny Blue Totes
Lets encourage recycling by providing residents with large capacity wheeled containers.
An associate recently contacted her local waste disposal company and requested a large capacity wheeled recycling container and was told that all they had were small containers and that she could leave her recyclables at the curb in other containers and they would be picked up.
Like many others responsible people, this person wants to do the right thing by separating her trash and placing the items to be recycled in the proper container.
In some communities, residents place their recyclables into blue totes and leave it at the curb, and all too often, the contents of these blue totes are strewn about the neighborhood. Plastic milk jugs, newspapers, water bottles and cans everywhere but where they belong because there is no lid on the blue tote. This creates an eyesore of debris and can devalue property. The blue recycle totes are both impractical and ineffective. It’s also way too small and in many ways, actually discourages people from recycling.
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It's time to recycle the recycle tote.
It’s also time for waste management companies to provide residents with a more practical solution by providing larger capacity wheeled recycling containers. Some communities are already doing this but not enough are taking the lead.
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Bob Fischer, a representative of the Naperville Area Homeowners Confederation, addressed this matter in his recent column in the Naperville Sun:
Recycling is something that should be encouraged. All waste management companies need to make available wheeled recycling containers similar to what is used for regular waste and refuse. Municipal governments and homeowners associations should insist that residents are provided with the proper disposal container to encourage recycling and discouraging blight and litter.
The first item to be placed in the new wheeled recycle containers should be the lidless blue totes.
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