City To Distribute Bins for Recycling Program
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Bright green and blue recycling bins will be showing up in city parks and both Staten Island Ferry terminals as part a three-month pilot program to increase recycling in New York, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.
Surrounded by the new recycling bins, Mr. Bloomberg said he hopes the pilot program, which officially begins Monday, will expand across the city. A recent study by the Department of Sanitation found that as much as half the garbage thrown in the city’s 25,000 trash bins could have been recycled.
The recycling bins will be placed in Union Square Park in Manhattan, Poe Park in the Bronx, Columbus Park in Brooklyn, Hoffman Park in Queens, and Tappen Park and Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island.
