RE: [greenyes] Separate bins for curbside collection of paper

[Helen Spiegelman <hspie@no.address>]

Cities in the metropolitan Vancouver (CANADA) region use sturdy
polyethylene bags for fibre products: a yellow bag for mixed paper and a
blue bag for ONP. We have basically constant rain all winter, and the
bags keep the paper dry (as long as people put them down flat). The poly
is very smooth so newspapers slide in easily. 

Here is a link for a pic (note that the paper sticks out the top - it
does not have to; the bags are big enough to hold newspapers out of the
rain).
www.nsrp.bc.ca/
recycling/curbside.html 


H.


At 01:09 PM 2/17/2005, Richard Johnson wrote:
> In Houston we put our paper in
> grocery bags, which we either set inside the
> recycling bin or next to the bin.  The City's crews don't seem to
> have
> difficulty handling this.
>
> As you may know, we get a lot of rain here.  If it's wet the evening
> before
> collection day, people will typically wait until the morning to put
> out
> their paper.  If it's raining on collection day, some people will
> wait until
> the next collection day to put out their paper.  However, I've never
> had my
> paper not be collected because of a bit dampness from rain.
>
> +Richard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Franklin
> [mailto:pfranklin@no.address]
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:02 AM
> To: cforrester@no.address; greenyes@no.address
> Subject: RE: [greenyes] Separate bins for curbside collection of
> paper
>
>
> Why not encourage residents to put their papers in a paper grocery
> bag?  The
> fit perfectly.  The grocery bag doesn't seem to contaminate the
> newspaper
> and other paper.  The newspapers don't blow away.  You don't
> need another
> bin because you can store the paper bags filled with papers in the
> bin
> (that's what we do.)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cforrester@no.address
> [mailto:cforrester@no.address]
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:01 AM
> To: greenyes@no.address
> Subject: [greenyes] Separate bins for curbside collection of
> paper
>
>
> Hi-
> I was wondering if anyone had experiences with collecting paper products
> in
> a
> separate bin (not with containers) curbside.
>
> * Do the bins become too heavy for the collectors to pick up?
> * Has a separate bin increased paper recycling in your community?
> * Have residents expressed space constraints in their home/yard with
> regards
> to
> having to store an extra bin?
>
> Any information you may have would be helpful.
>
> Thank you-
>
> Courtney Forrester
>
> Solid Waste Manager
> Newton Department of Public Works
> 617/796.1012
>
> http://www.ci.newton.ma.us/dpw/recycling