New Blue Bins in Syracuse, N.Y.
Blue Bin success.
My weekly garbage and recycling collection this morning in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood came with a delivery on the back end.
When my dear wife Karen left for work, she poked her head back into the Little Bitty and declared, “the new blue bins are here!”
After two months of overstuffing our one remaining, cracked recycling bin with paper, glass, plastic and cans — and the same amount of phone calls to the city to arrange delivery — here we have them.
To avoid swipeage, as both I and the nice man on the other end of both of my calls surmised was the fate of our first delivery of bins, I’ve Sharpied our address on the side of the bins not facing my iPad Air when I took the photo above.
By the way, I also threw the Photo101 tag on this update because, well, I tried to get a nice angle on the shot as well as my conclusion of our tale.
Here’s the link to my post about my Blue Bin frustrations.
All’s well that ends well? Two bins in my hand are worth more than all of the neighbors across the way in the bushes? Five pennies saved by the pickers who take the refundable cans we toss in our Blue Bins is five pennies of good karma earned for MDW Karen and I?
Mark Bialczak 
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Late to the party Mark. Glad you folks got your bins at last.
At our failed gentrification project house, we had bins stolen and unstolen bins stuffed to the gills with the trash of others under cover of darkness–including overflowing unwrapped baby diapers oozing over the sides of the Recycle bin. So glad that’s over with!
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That’s truly disgusting, the diaper dilemma, Babe. Keep the oozing on your own property, should be understood. But no. Thanks for dropping in, any time, my door is open for you.
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They were charming neighbors in many ways, Mark, and my ex quite the man to force us to continue to live there. Like I said, glad it’s over.
🙂 🙂 🙂
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bright and shiny!
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HOW AWESOME! (And yes, I used to be a 5 cent can picked when I lived in NY, so I’m glad you’re passing on the good fortune.) 😀 And the photo angle looks great, too!
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I love the new bins. They give us enough room for all the recycleables, Rachel!
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Yes, they look longer than mine… And I only get one! 😉
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Make some noise and get a second, Rachel!
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Good idea! 🙂
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Yay!!! Look how pretty they are, Mark. Congrats! 🙂
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The blue just pops, Red, right?
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Totally. The color is fantastic!
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I’m glad you finally got them, but I am amazed at how small they are, and lidless…
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Yes, see why I needed two, Joey? The lidless part makes them for less expensive for the municipality, I’m certain.
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I look forward to the day when we have recycling like this at our homes! We’ll just continue to take it in….
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That is a good thing, my buddy Colleen, for our world. 🙂
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Fully agree!
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They’re things of beauty! Congrats and much admiration for your perseverance.
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They are a darn good-looking sight, Barb. 🙂
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Ta-da! New bins without lids! And blue how cool! Way to go, cous, making a fuss for now you have new blue bins. HURRAY!!!! So happy for you! *doing the happy dance* Love, cous from the west
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Thank you, busiest dark room navigator!
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You are welcome, says the very pooped dark room navigator. I don’t want to see another waterfalls pic in my editor for a long while to come. *crossed eyes* LOL
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😉
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Bin there, done that.
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Recycled recycling bins. Dig it, Doobs.
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Now that is a thing of beauty. Congratulation. We have limited recycling here and have to drive to the big city to get the majority of it taken care of. Like aluminum foil. I’m willing to wash it, if they’re willing to recycle it.
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Save resources. If we’re willing, the municpalities should make it able, Fannie. I’m with you.
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I wish they would give us two. We have to supplement with cardboard boxes.
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I am so happy to have two again, Scott. You should ask for a second. Maybe they’ll cough it up.
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Glad you finally have your bins. It’s the small things in life, right?
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When they were overflowing on garbage night it seemed like a big pain to me, Me Who, so yes, I am happier today than last night when I hauled the one cracked and overstuffed bin out there and rigged the newspapers so they wouldn’t blow away. 🙂
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I would be happy too! You’re talking to a lady who gets happy over new dustpans. 🙂
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No bunny left unswept, Me Who!
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That’s right!
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Excellent work avoiding future swipeage ->> way to go! Bin duty is done for the day 🙂
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Ah, life’s little successes!
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Big recycling fan! Well done.
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Thank you, JoHanna. Appreciated.
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Best to keep the wire gremlins busy with a tangled mess, as I believe they steal recycling bins and haul them into their cave when they are bored…
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Good cross references, Bill! Just like tangled wires that must be tossed in bins, to be salvaged by our weekly pickers.
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Yay the bins came!
My head is foggy this morning, so I got stuck on the title of the post until I realized you switched the first letters, and binished and fusiness aren’t real words… silly me!
I see you’ve cast your long shadow over the fins…I mean bins… ❤
Diana xo
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I thought the title was cute and funny. The confusing part somehow eluded me. Sorry, Diana. Sometimes I live in the shadows. 🙂
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The title is cute and funny!
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We have a recycling bin that is as large as our garbage can. I usually have more recycling than trash! 🙂 Glad you finally got your bins!
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That’s why we needed two bins, Colleen. They’re too dang small!
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Here all our bins look like regular trash bins (like yours) but in different colors… black for trash, green for stuff that can be mulched, blue for recycling… I wonder what is the advantage of having totally different bins for recycling… now I am going to be agonizing over this all day! (NOT…)
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So we simple Syracusans don’t have to sort stuff? There, I sent myself mostly to the S key to address your concerns, Ros. 🙂
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Ahhh, they look right at home there beside your step Mark. Well done.
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Thank you, Paul. Comfy until the next big whack to the side of the collection truck …
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I’m surprised they have no lids on them. How do you keep the snow/rain out of them?
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You don’t, PJ. Big bin problem. Good catch.
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Ours look just like our regular trash bins but they have bright yellow lids on them.
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