For the first time, Central Park will have more recycling bins than trash cans, officials said.
All the recycling bins have been filled up with refuse and it's still overflowing everywhere.
All public mixed recycling bins could be removed from an area of Oxfordshire after problems with fly-tipping.
In 2011, it suggested fines would help to encourage households to put rubbish in the correct recycling bins.
Yard waste composting is also included in the plan, as are the addition of hundreds of public recycling bins.
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Some residents took to dumping their excess trash into their recycling bins, causing bottlenecks at a local recycling center.
With the additional recycling bins, the conservancy hopes the recycled materials will grow to 80 or 90 tons per year.
Trash cans and recycling bins are being removed from certain areas of Washington's Metro subway system as a safety precaution.
There has been a push in recent years to combat this by putting recycling bins (instead of trashcans), in the subway systems.
Its 300 plastic recycling bins are being replaced with 418 sleek aluminum bins some for bottles, others for cans and more for paper products.
Her family intervention worker pitched in to help sort out the rubbish into the proper recycling bins so that the council would take it away.
Weekly black bin and recycling bins will be collected on the next scheduled collection day, while fortnightly black bin collection will take place on on Saturday 3 December.
Two, three, five, eight, eighteen Hastings-on-Hudsonians lumbered in to check their boxes, sort circulars into recycling bins, greet the postmistress, and trade coins for stamps, each of comically tiny denominations.
Mr Wilson will check what residents in Mansfield are putting in their green wheelie bins and in blue recycling bins - which are for plastic bottles, glass, cardboard and cans.
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Mixed recycling bins, which are meant for items such as cardboard and glass, have already been removed from a few sites at the request of land owners, according to the council.
Ms. Libner said the new trash and recycling bins will be moved from the center of grassy areas into main pathways where people walk, making it easier for trash to be picked up.
Along with other efforts, there will be an increase in sidewalk recycling bins as well as new food waste composting programs, which the mayor hopes will help the city attain a 30 percent recycling rate by 2017.
Sounding like something out of a 1950s B-movie, these giant African land snails eat their way through some surprising stuff, including stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants, says the Florida Department of Agriculture.
The council said it had no plans to remove charity recycling containers, which are currently located next to the green bins, at the recycling banks.
One resident told the BBC his bins and recycling had not been collected for two consecutive weeks and the situation was "still a major problem".
The council has also been trying out bins for other recycling in some communities.
Gibson said that Munter has made the team think more about recycling and now they take bins to the track to make sure they don't put cans and bottles in the trash.
First and foremost, BigBelly trash bins compact trash using electricity produced by built-in solar panels, which allows each bin to hold about five times more waste or recycling compared to traditional trash bins.
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In fact, in several stadiums they already have, moving the cups and plates to compostible versions and removing (yes, removing) 90% of the trash bins, replaced with recycling containers.
The bins are located at 22 recycling banks in the district area, which covers Faringdon and Abingdon, with many in supermarket or pub car parks.
The department's campaign to encourage recycling during December included putting out additional bins and making extra collections at the main bring bank sites around Christmas.
Bins will not be collected and all recycling centres and civic amenity sites will be closed, as will leisure centres and sports pitches.
From July, aerosols and textiles will be accepted for recycling and kitchen towels can go into the food waste bins.
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