Some residents took to dumping their excess trash into their recycling bins, causing bottlenecks at a local recycling center.

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We took our set to the recycling center a half dozen years ago.

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"My room does look like a recycling center, " Ernst said, laughing.

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In Sayreville, a suburb about 50 minutes south of Manhattan, entire blocks were destroyed, a building collapsed and there was a fire at the recycling center.

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Start a forum for neighborhood improvement to transform the lot for some interesting purpose--a community garden, a playground, a recycling center, introducing something new in your neighborhood, school, or anything else.

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On Saturdays the haulers, their wives and their children gathered at the recycling center to clean out the plastic pails they gave to customers for collecting the newspapers, magazines, bottles and other recycling materials.

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Iqbal used to work at a recycling center.

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"Most of the people at the recycling center didn't want to be filmed, because they think it's a shameful job, " said a Chinese woman named Lilly, one of the film's subjects, speaking Cantonese through a translator while collecting a fresh haul last week near Fulton Street.

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We also have hundreds of Big Belly solar-powered recycling collectors all over Center City and now they are being placed in the neighborhoods too.

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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.

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