As of today, we are out of bins at the Herring Run Watershed Association (we sold 60 earlier this week.) We are hopeful of receiving a new shipment on Monday, July 12. There will be a message on our phone at 410-254-1577 saying if we have them or not. You can leave a message to reserve a bin. We are accepting cash only. We are located at 3545 Belair Road at Pelham Avenue.

Also, from the City's web site: Under One PLUS One, your current trash pick up location will become your new recycling pick up location.

(I think this is great! On our block trash is picked up in the alley but recycling is set out in front of the houses - the containers obstruct the sidewalks and on windy days bottles and papers blow all around.)

This, of course, still does not solve the problem that occurred back when the recycling began- the site I went to that was selling bins ran out of the small ones and sold ones "to be delivered".

Despite several tries over the years, I have yet to receive the small bins I ordered. I guess since the recycling will come weekly it won't be as big of a problem. Other than lost $$.

I do not know how this is giong to work out. Our trash cans are in the back yard. The trash cans were strewen about after the trash were dumped. We found ourselves trying to find out where our tops and trash cans landed. Our tops were never found and trash cans were bent. We had decided that the trash cans each year was costing us too much money. So we are going to chain our trasn cans up so that the bags have to be lifted out. In order not to find any trash in our cans this time, we will rechain our tops when we get home.

We have had neighbors throw trash that was not picked up in other people's yards. I do not want that to start over again. I do not want another fine. we were fined for other people's trash sitting in front of our yard. When we called about the concern we were double fined. When we took pictures and sent them. That was the third fine tacked to our first fine. But we keep a very clean yard front and back yard.

A neighbor put bags and bags of wet straw from his yard in front of our house and we were even fined for that. It just sat there for over 3 months until they decided to put the bags in front of our yard! My husband bagged it up and put it back where it came from. That was disgusting to do. That neighbor has all kinds of farm animals over there!

We cook out in our back yard but we are very clean with the activities. Our yard is picked up right after every event we hold. Our grass is cut on a regular basis and we are trying to plant flowers in the front yard.

We find trash from others in our front and our back yard after an event, the weekend or any holiday that there is activity at the neighbors houses. We find all of that in front of our steps and all over the neighborhood. It is not fair for others to be subjected to that scene first thing in the morning. They have no shame in hurling their offcasts in our yard because "We are good people and won't say nothin'."

I do not think it is fair that we will have to be subjected to others trash and debris in the alley and in the yard of our house. I am concerned that we will face the brunt of other's negligence and indifference to having a neat and tidy neighborhood.

If anyone has a better idea, post a note.

The porblem is that the city said the changes would take affect Tuesday, not Monday. Those of us who had Monday as a trash day expected to have trahs pickup today.

Every article read "effective Tuesady"....this is false....of the service stopped on Monday,,,the changes is EFFECTIVE MONDAY.

#1 ONE DAY A WEEK PICK-UP
i just don,t see it wook here in baltmore you have all walks of life living here somepeople with brains the other 40% DON,T
give HOOT so everything will go into bags in cans #(2)
is balto go to give thr recicle bin to us if whst they
want us to pay for it and at the samr time they rais house/home owner taxes BULL
go back to twodays a week is what i say i will not pay for one more trashcan B,C SHOULD BY IT THEN I

As I thought might be the case many of my neighbors put bags out yesterday morning on the front sidewalk and they sat all day in the hot sun. Now they are either sitting in the same spots or alternately sitting in areaways festering creating that "rat buffet" that city officials are fond of talking about.

I'd also like to mention that the "buy recycle bins and cans" thing is a nice thought if you have (a) the funds to make the purchase and (b) have the transportation needed. People can't transport recycle bins home on the overloaded buses.

Educating people AND providing them with the bins and cans needed to be done before this switch. Postcards do not count as education.

I continue to be amazed at the negative reaction to this forward thinking move. I grew up in a city of nearly 2.5 million people, where trash was picked up once a week, without any widespread whining as we are hearing here. In fact, these days, the city even picks up food and organic waste once a week, and trash only every other week, and households still manage to only need one garbage can.
As far as I can tell, the saving grace of my former city's program was the recycling system, streaming a HUGE proportion of the waste to facilities that will process and reuse/re-purpose them. The program is here, and it will work if we make it work. I challenge you to go through your garbage and find out just how much is actually recyclable. You'll be amazed. As for the build up of smelly trash, generally recyclables are not smelly, or can be rinsed quickly to avoid it. Suspend your disbelief and try it.

Is anyone else in Baltimore City having trouble with disappearing recycling bins? I live in a condo in the city and all of us set our recycling out next to the trash dumpster. The bins that were put out were all taken away. My bin was clearly labeled for recycling and had my address on it. I went out and bought a new yellow baltimore city recycling bin thinking the problem was that the sanitation crew did not understand that they were supposed to just empty my grey bin and leave it. By that time one of my neighbors called the city about it and my old grey bin reappeared. On Monday I put out my recycling in my new yellow bin with my address on it and my bin has disappeared. I think most of my neighbors bins have disappeared also because there was only one empty bin next to our trash dumpster on Monday night. I've called 311 about it. Anyone else having the same problem?

In my neighborhood we have now developed a rat problem. |It would be nice if the city would arbitrarily come out in the neighborhood and lay rat poison. I have no problem recycling, but until the city adopts and agheres to the one day trash pickup, this wouldhelp greatly. I pride myself as being a resident and homeowner of Baltimore City. I am deeply terrified of rats. I have owned my home for 15 years