New Trash & Recycling Bins for Venice
New Trash & Recycling Bins for Venice
In response to a growing concern from residents and merchants about the lack of sufficient trash and recycling receptacles around Venice, especially in heavily traveled areas such as Ocean Front Walk (more commonly known as the Boardwalk) and along Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Mike Newhouse, President of our Venice Neighborhood Council, has made arrangements with the aid of Councilman Bill Rosendahl’s office and the Bureau of Sanitation for the purchase 72 new heavy-duty trash and recycling receptacles, 12 of which are to be installed along Ocean Front Walk before Memorial Day, when our heaviest tourist season commences. The remainder will be placed at various heavily-traveled places around Venice, particularly along Abbot Kinney Boulevard and around the Windward Circle near the Venice Post Office. The recycling receptacles are the variety that allow trash in, but once in, it will be impossible for someone to then “steal” the recyclables out of them – the City benefits from the money received from the recyclable trash to help offset the cost of the trash collection service.
Pretty cool, no?!? Your tax dollars at work!
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I Love Recycling
I spend my whole life devoted to environmental work. Human sustainability is part of that. Get those recycling bins out there, but without a lock mechanism. Enough is enough. You think Venice needs that 25 cents more than the person collecting the recyclables? Sad to say, the people who make Venice boardwalk their home add some of the minute amount of diversity left in this town. I do want them to get by.
Hey-maybe Venice could hire the homeless to collect from the boxes?
Let's think OUTSIDE THE BOX my friends.
Recycling helps feed the poor
By collecting trash that can be recycled, many of the poor in Venice can earn enough to eat once in a while. In addition to these locked recycle containers paid for by the City, lets reestablish "free boxes" that used to exist in Venice. Then, we can give our cardboard to the L.A. bureaucrats and cans, bottles and good clothing to our neighbors who are less fortunate (which might be all of us the way the economy is going).
I'd also like to urge everyone to set out their redeemable bottles and cans in a bag or box next to trash bins, not in them. That way, we can make it easier for people to collect them.
Recycling feeds addictions also
It may be that Recycling helps some eat, but there are other effective ways for the poor to get food including the food stamp program among others.
What you can not buy with food stamps is liquor. However, recycled bottles and cans can and ARE used to pay for cheap liquor by the homeless and alcohol addicted in our city. Let's not enable their self destructive behavior. When you give uncontrolled hand outs of your money or recyclables, consider whether or not that will be used to purchase a can of cheap liquor and enable the cycle of alcoholism.
We have social workers in Venice who are trained at helping these people turn their lives around, but with a steady supply of booze funded by recyclables, the addicted homeless have no incentive to accept help.
-- Richard
We have a recycling system
We have a recycling system already.
There are people that regularly go through all of the trash receptacles on the Boardwalk on a daily basis and they count on that small income. What we need is just more trash receptacles.
Maybe the yuppie Venice resident does not understand this, but these recycling receptacles are only our tax dollars being spent to make you feel better about doing something for the environment. The recycling is actually happening already - with a direct benefit to very poor people. If the city needs this money so much maybe the very high salaries of certain city officilas should be looked at first.
The tax dollars spent on those recycling receptacles will make it harder for the recyclers, who are usually the poorest amoung us and that is not cool at all.
… when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!. —Matthew 25:46
The receptacles need better labeling to be effective
I think receptacles like these should be accompany every trash receptacle in every public space nationwide although I do sympathize with those who earn a living from collecting recyclables in Venice. (I would be in favor of having them unlocked for easy access) What I did notice is that they are very poorly marked. If you are not an LA resident familiar with LA recyclables, you wouldn't know what to put in and what not to put in. With so many tourists on OFW, these containers need signage either with symbols or in many languages letting people know what to put in.