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This summer, a new type of residential recycling container will be tested in some Montreal boroughs, with the goal of ultimately replacing the green plastic bins that are now used in most parts of the city. The new container will be made with “recycled and waterproof polyethylene fabric and extruded plastic,” reports the Gazette<\/a>. “The bottom is perforated for easy drainage. It can hold 70 litres of paper, plastic, glass and metal. It has a hinged cover that retracts for easy emptying. You can carry it with one hand.” <\/p>\n

Anyone who has wandered through the aftermath of a windy recycling day, green bins and trash strewn across the street, will have to admit that this is good news. What alarms me, though, is that even as City Hall considers a more sustainable replacement for household recycling bins, there doesn’t seem to be any effort to find a replacement for the public recycling bins that were removed from Montreal’s streets a few years ago. <\/p>\n

In 2006, the city briefly flirted with the idea of installing advertising-heavy MegaBins<\/a>, but deemed them inappropriate after a test run. (Toronto’s disastrous experience with MegaBins might have also had something to do with it.) At the moment, the only way for pedestrians to recycle their cans, paper and bottles has been to hold on to them until they got home. Naturally, most don’t do that, so garbage cans are usually filled with things that should be recycled.<\/p>\n

The old bins were discarded because, made of plastic, they would often be mangled by snowplows, people rooting for bottles or drunken passersby looking for something to destroy. Last fall, though, I noticed that McGill has installed new recycling bins on its downtown campus, and they could probably work well in the rest of the city. Not only are they simple, attractive and easy to use, they are sturdy and made of aluminum. So why hasn’t anyone suggested using them on Montreal’s streets? McGill often seems like a bubble, but this is one initiative that deserves to break out.<\/p>\n

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