Big blue trash cans were being tossed around like a piece of paper in the wind.
For the first time, Central Park will have more recycling bins than trash cans, officials said.
Whenever an item is placed inside the trash cans, the bin says, "vielen danke" (many thanks).
Additionally, the conservancy plans to replace the park's more than 300 plastic trash cans with slatted aluminum containers.
They picked through trash cans, plastic cup sleeves and discarded sports drink dispensers.
We still have the old fashioned wire basket trash cans in some places.
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Trash cans and recycling bins are being removed from certain areas of Washington's Metro subway system as a safety precaution.
Salazar and National Park Service director Jon Jarvis said visitors would encounter locked restrooms, fewer rangers and trash cans emptied less frequently.
The park has previously removed trash cans from children's parks and wooded areas to fight off rats, which had infiltrated the cans there.
As the protesters moved through downtown Seattle, they threw street barriers, trash cans and newspaper bins on the streets in an attempt to block advancing police officers.
Due out in coming months is an array of 200 products using alternative materials: totes, laundry hampers and trash cans made from aluminum, wicker, canvas, sea grass.
Mr. Kline felt unloved when, after work, he came home and found the trash cans sitting at the end of the driveway and dishes in the sink.
Rubbermaid is now planning a product "summit" with Carrefour in the Netherlands to display such commercial Rubbermaid products as heavy-duty trash cans and other items sold only in North America.
Or if we can't see it that way, we might just accept teens' potty mouths the way we do cracks in the pavement and overripe trash cans -- inevitable dings in this thing called life.
As corporations make headlines for hiding expenses and furnishing execs with gilded trash cans, mutual funds keep even basic investor information secret, such as how much fund company executives earn and whether fund managers personally invest anything in the funds they oversee.
Fifer says the city also plans to experiment with municipal uses of the network, like setting up Wi-Fi-enabled traffic cameras, trash cans that can wirelessly call the city when they need to be emptied or traffic meters that call in when they're overdue.
She rattled her hand through trash, oil cans, rags, and coffee mugs until she found what she was looking for, a tire iron.
Ms. Libner said the trash and recycling cans would have smaller slats and would be elevated from the ground, making it harder for rats to enter.
Mr. Calvanese said the large, almost cylindrical trash and recycling cans are "elegant, " with small letters (including the Alcoa name) and a simple design that reflects the park's benches.
He occasionally traded his "breadwinner"--the cart used to haul cans from the trash dump to the scrap dealer--for alcohol.
Gibson said that Munter has made the team think more about recycling and now they take bins to the track to make sure they don't put cans and bottles in the trash.
With their trash collection reduced to every other week, Portland households have had to hone their recycling skills or pay more for bigger garbage cans, which are provided by the network of private haulers who pick up the trash for the city of 583, 000.
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