Big Blue Day in Baltimore
It's here! It's finally here! It's bottles-and-cans recycling day in Baltimore. We haven't had one since Oct. 22. With the Veterans Day holiday falling as it did and the city bureaucracy apparently being less than willing to make workers make up for lost work -- or to change the curbside recycling pickup date -- those of us who still care have a mound of bulky blue bags, the biggest of the year. Be careful out there as piles of blue bags will present obstacles to drivers and pedestrians as they try to traverse the city streets today. This pickup should take all day, too. When the city waits five weeks to collect, I can only imagine what a strain and backup this puts on the system. Anyway, let us rejoice! The big blue B is finally on the calendar again! It's time to Purge, Baby, Purge!
Comments
You're really screwed if you have Monday and Thursday trash collection schedule (as is the case on the east side of Patterson Park). Since there are six government holidays that always fall on a Monday or Thursday, you're guaranteed to have fewer trash collections than someone who has a Tuesday/Friday collection schedule. The past two years have been particularly bad for us since Christmas and New Year's were observed on a Monday.
Posted by: MCG | November 26, 2007 8:39 AM
Agree with MCG, as our days in NW Baltimore are also Mon and Thurs.
We would like to dutifully do our recycling, but here I sit at 8:20 PM and the bags are still out by the street. A call to the city said that they only work until 8:30, and if they aren't picked up, we can call for a special pick up. Of course, they are sitting where we intend to put an enormous amount of paper recycling tomorrow.
If they can't pick up the recycling, what hope do we have for more complex things like crime solving and improving education?
Posted by: irwin | November 26, 2007 8:20 PM