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Washington Post blames big blue bins for rise in recycling costs

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Next week trucks deployed by the City of St. Pete for the sole purpose of collecting curbside recycling will hit the streets in some areas officially marking the start of a universal recycling program long-anticipated. But its being ushered in with a host of criticisms ranging from how and when the recycling will be picked up to whether or not ratepayers should be forced to pay for the program even if they choose not to use it. One of the…

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Creative Loafing draws correlation to Pier petition and blue recycling bins

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SaintPetersblog has provided tireless coverage of St. Pete’s impending apocalyptic curbside recycling rollout. I say apocalyptic because you’d think the city was delivering nuclear waste to residents’ driveways and front yards. Emails collected showed numerous complaints to city officials regarding the recycling bins’ size, color, location, weight, roll-ability, cost and overall forceful nature from which they magically appeared. We’ve reported on the details – where do you put them? When do they get picked up? Why can’t they go in…

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Darden Rice encourages flexibility in fixing recycling kinks

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There’s been a vocal pouring of criticism over St. Pete’s recycling program rollout. For weeks residents in single-family or small multi-family homes have been receiving recycling bins at their homes. They’re big. They’re blue. And they’re being dropped off in front yards all over the city. Some people think they’re ugly. Some are mad they can’t put the bins in an alley for pickup instead of the curb. Some don’t want the government telling them what to do and some…

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Rick Kriseman: Lack of blue bin refusals shows residents do want recycling

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The first round of universal curbside recycling pickup begins at the end of this month. Front and center of the program has been the criticism surrounding the program. Residents have to pay for it whether they use it or not. The large, rolling blue bins are an eye sore. There’s no alley pickup. The government is forcing us to do something we didn’t ask for. But St. Pete Mayor wants residents to know not everyone is unhappy with the upcoming program.…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

Ever since I acquired the rights to the perfect domain for my efforts — FloridaPolitics.com — I knew that one

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