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Dearborn Begins Delivery of New Trash Carts June 1

Dearborn residents should expect to see their new trash and recycling carts delivered to their households beginning June 1, with the expectation that all households will receive the new carts by July 5, Dearborn officials say. 

All Dearborn households will receive two containers: gray for trash, green for recycling.

Some 65,200 carts — all made in Grand Rapids, Michigan — will be delivered to every household at the curbside. A complete packet of information will be inside the new carts.

Residents are being asked to store the two, 96-gallon carts in an appropriate place and not to use them before their collection day the week of July 5.  Residents need to continue to use their existing trash cans and recycling bin until that week.

Dearborn will be mailing to the 32,600 homes it collects trash from each week a post card in the next two weeks as a reminder that the carts are on the way, and to not use them before the week of July 5. 

Trash days will stay the same for every household. Curbside recycling will continue to be on trash days, but residents will recycle every other week on their trash days. Each recycling cart will have information posted on them so residents will easily know which week to recycle.

While some may balk at not having recycle pickup each week, it is worth noting that the city currently has just a 30 percent participation rate in the current recycling program. With the new larger cans and the fact that plastics from 1 to 7 can now be recycled, the city expects the participation number to increase.

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4 Responses to “Dearborn Begins Delivery of New Trash Carts June 1”

  1. James says:
    May 18th, 2010 at 2:31 pm

    I’m shocked that there is only a 30% participation rate! The allowances of what was allowed in the past was pathetic, so hopefully the expanded allowance of what can go in the bins will encourage everybody to recycle.

  2. bob says:
    May 19th, 2010 at 8:06 am

    I’m shocked too! it seems that on our block (Mati’s deli), everyone has stuff out. Don’t forget though, folks, our animal shelter could use your newspapers!

  3. NObama & NOreilly says:
    May 21st, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    Here’s a radical thought: If a household does not participate in the recycling program, then they need to pay for the recycling bin. Why should all the other citizens pay through tax payer dollars for someone to not utilize the bin? This would go against my logic of using a tax to enforce something, but unfortunately, we have local, state, and federal governments spending OUR hard earned money on whatever they like. So “the city expects the participation number to increase” is a DRASTIC understatement in my mind. Let’s say they do get participation from 30% up to 50%, then that would mean that the TAXPAYERS paid for double the amount of recycling bins than were needed.

  4. Donna Hay says:
    May 30th, 2010 at 5:58 pm

    What happens to the people who do not use the new containers but continue to put out plastic bags?