[Mpls] Recycling containers

[Steve Brandt]

C. Nompelis comments:  After living my (almost) entire life in Minneapolis
and using those green/blue rectangular recycling bins
in which you are supposed to place bags of separated
stuff, I get a place in Powderhorn which has this
alien-looking white dumpster for "co-mingled"
recycling.  

Brandt:  My understanding is that the city's program serves apartment sof up to four units, but that larger buildings contract for their own recycling services.

I agree with others about the inadequacy of city recycling bins.  A city that truly was interested in encouraging recycling would supply as many bins as needed.  I hauled eight or so bags of recycling out to the alley this morning, and that's from just a two-person household.  Inevitably one bag breaks, and I have to rebag it.  But there's an upside to that.  This morning I discovered that my wife had recycled some of my stacks of school data, and found the report on class size I had been trying to find on my desk at work.

Steve Brandt
Kingfield