Clam, do you look for things to complain about? The town is giving you a nice new recycling can and I would bet they are going to hand out instructions for their use. It will look a whole lot better than the variety of baskets,buckets beat up old garbage cans that the residents use now. Look at the glass as half full for once.

Instructions? how hard can it be to use the cans?
1. open lid
2.insert recycling
3.close lid
4. repeat steps 1-3 as often as necessary until recycling day
5. roll can out to street for pick up
6. when empty remove can from street
7. repeat 5&6 every other week

the question and comment I made were out of curiosity not complaint. when I read an article designed to relay information I kind of hope that all the necessary info is in the article. the good thing about the Patch is that you can post a comment/question regarding an article and usually get an answer when one becomes available.

I would like to purchase a 2nd can if they are available.

i'll be almost anything many people will see the can on the street and begin filling them up the day they arrive and then put them out on the street for normal pick up.

btw...I don't look for things to complain about, it just comes naturally.

I'll add another question - what color are these new recycling cans going to be?

Oh no....another front of the house decoration???? Notice ...people used to keep garbage cans in their back yards until the automated cans came into vogue...now we can have a rainbow effect to decorate our front yards...YEAH trash reigns...new lawn ornaments for the lazy people.

I love the residents who always seem to have a couch to throw out or always seem to have a curb full of junk that is getting cleaned out...from somewhere but their home.

yes, like on winding river lane. can i say names, i work hard to recycle it shows whos fake How could u not care if u have kids ?

Your not thinking long-term enogh because if 10% more people recycle, the town could save $200,000/year in tipping fees. Within 60-70 years these cans will have payed for themselves, then it's nothing but profit.

Not sure if this was a serious question, but the cans are part of the single stream system. So you can throw any recyclable material in them.

do you think they will begin to now accept pizza boxes?

how about empty quart & gallon motor oil jugs?

will there still be a bulk pick up for large size cardboard that will not fit into the new cans?

you forgot the empty bottles of prune juice too.

Sell yours to clamdigger, he's looking for an extra.......

good Point, If we do it ourselves ( also know a lot of senior men that go themselves) Do we get a tax break??

No tax break new Kid, just like I dont get a $6,000 yearly tax break because I have no children.

LOL!

elvis, is sandra fluke your girlfriend ?

Elvis- best comment, ever.

This was in the works long before Sandy and is funded through the capital budget. It has nothing to do with Sandy relief money.

Agreed another piece of our Gvnt 1) communism=a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party 2).Dictatorship=a country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator.
absolute, imperious, or overbearing power or control. OR 3) Socialism of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
the office or position held by a dictator. ???? Which one do you think this falls into.
& Yes he brings it to Brick recycle center... Iam still wondering if this is a way to eliminate jobs at the Recycle center.. they tried a year a so to close them down,,, remember?

The chip that tracks your recycling actvity can join the transponder that tracks your travel thru the EZ Pass system (Remember when they were installing EZ Pass and they swore it would lnever be used for tracking or traffic enforcemenmt?) and the red-light cameras that watch your passage around town so that the Government can "Help" you.

Government overreach? One of the primary functions of government is to collect garbage. Setting the rules in the way they collect garbage is certainly acceptable. The rule about recycling: You must recycle. If you do not recycle, you should be fined. If government did not require recycling, our cost for garbage removal would be higher.
Is this a proper function of government? Of course, governments have been mandating sanitation issues like garbage collection since the end of the middle ages. Improper sanitation causes rodents, vermin, and the spread of diseases. All you libertarians please think before you jump to irrational conclusions like government is overreaching when regulating one of their primary functions.

bystander, that's why obama has the drone program, wake up

Relax everyone and put your tin foil hats away.
You aren't that important that people are wasting their time keeping tabs on you.

The 50's called....they want their weird paranoia back.

Where did you get this statistic from, Do you think it would be worth any municipalities expenses to even bother. I'm sure there is a significant amount of junk that is not recycling worthy that needs to be filtered out, but I believe 50% is more likely.

it was a undercover story about a yr or so ago on either 20/20 or dateline

Paolo, you would be surprised what laws are ignored here.

Is assuring that fugly blue cans ensure a continuance of a Bricktucky sensibility also a law? I stand by my first reaction - These ARE looney bins!

Leave it outside and you'll have the town AND your HOA after you.

me too - can we have a color choice?

This wont make money. Recycling usually costs about twice as much as just throwing something away.

That doesn't match the color of my home!

Fugly!

Is the scenario far-fetched? HELL NO IT'S PARANOIA. You must love conspiracy theories. Having an RFID chip in your recycling can will not lead to your home getting wrecked and burglarized, but it's hilarious you think it would. I guess you don't get a paper delivered - the paper company will observe the pattern of no deliveries in August, someone will pass that info on and you'll come back to a wrecked and burglarized home. I guess you let mail pile up in the mailbox, because if you stopped your mail, the US Postal Authorities will spot the trend and you'll come back to a wrecked and burglarized home. I guess you don't ask the neighbors to keep an eye on the premises, because they'll pass that info on and you'll come back to a wrecked and burglarized home. PARANOIA WILL DESTROY 'YA....

When the new can comes,before you use it ,find and remove or destroy the chip.Sounds good to me.

Well Lulla Belle, there actually was a situation that is well known on Princeton Avenue in Brick, where exactly that happened. The postal workers allegedly tipped off some miscreants as to what homes were vacant after summer and many of them were burgled. So it is not that far fetched even if it does seem paranoid.
On another note - Fugly blue can - geez couldn't they have gone with a neutral color? So Bricktucky. I know we need to recycle. The planet really needs to just plain and simply stop creating so much garbage. We are killing ourselves with water bottles. IMHO of course.

You have way way too much time on your hands dude.

Actually, no. The referendum vote was to fund the operating budget. This project is funded through the capital budget. Two totally different animals. The referendum had nothing to do with the capital budget.

They know your cat is a spy and that he is sending secret messages via the tuna fish cans lol.

And the dog is a double agent, but they haven't figured that out yet.

I think they have been pretty on top of things apart from ticketing the dumbos who put paper out in a laundry basket to littler the streets when it is windy. And these are nice little old men and ladies. Noone else reads those rags. I picked up a bunch of them after the snow melted this morning. The can is a good idea, but I seriously wish they would have consulted me as to the color. Blue clashes with Cammi's house as well as my own and will look very unattractive after Elvis is done with it not to even mention how they will foul up The Guy's cats and dog ring.

There has been single stream recycling for quite a while. Everything goes in 1 can!

And that exactly saves money how?? That really seems off.

That will probably work for you because if a holiday falls on the recycling day two weeks could be four.

Thanks for the info.....

Exactly my point. "POLICE STATE" I've been recycling for years! If don't put recycling out for a while I don't want people on MY property checking MY garbage can. It's none of their business snooping on my and in my personal property. Ever hear about personal responsibility? Once my garbage can goes out to the road anyone can stick something in it and I'm not paying a fine for someone putting a recyclable in with my garbage! Won't be long before they do this with garbage and start charging you by how much you throw out, then people won't be saying "oh, its nothing!" Then its too late!

Is the tin foil hat going to go into a third bin? If so I want to pick the color and I say we can call it the looney bin. Collections will be made every full moon and election day. I know I am behaving badly tonight but this is so funny. I can't wait to hear what the Wahoo Chief thinks about this matter.

Me too!

Well if you don't recycle your tin hat in the looney bin the magic tracking device sends Tinkerbelle to your home to swoop down and bring you to justice whereupon you will be forcedfed gruel for about half of eternity unless your cats and dog the double agent get busted in which case it could be longer. At any rate the two little ones are as cute as punch.

Ha, Jerry, I just deleted it. Readers can post images to stories, and sometimes there's an oddball one.

We do need recycling policed. The use of a chip is not big brother because the same information could be gathered by the garbage men, but less efficiently and at a higher cost. If using the chip is a cost effective way to catch violators, use it. If not caught homeowners that refuse to recycle would cost taxpayers more money. The township is paid for its recyclables, and saves on tipping fees at the dump. If you do not want someone looking at your garbage, or trying to determine if you are recycling then bring your trash to the dump yourself and pay the dump directly. Your garbage is being left out for the township. It is not private once you put it out for the township to collect. I do not think Bush, Obama, the trilateral commission, the new world order, and The United Nations have conspired to know what is in your trash. OK, maybe just Steve Acropolis and DPW.

How about we put a tracking device on our township officials so we know when and where they are doing their jobs?? Sounds fair to me...You track me...I track you..!!!

The chip would only tell them who does not put out a can. The sanitation inspector would still need to check your regular garbage to look for recyclables. They could only send you a violation if they found recyclables in the trash. Years ago, I know someone that saw a sanitation inspector stop and look in his garbage can. My friend asked what he was looking for. The inspector questioned why no newspaper recyclables were put out in many weeks, when they normally put out a lot. My friend showed the inspector the bin of newspapers that he had and was donating to a recycling drive by the boy scouts. The inspector apologized for bothering him and left. I guess the boy scouts do not collect recyclables anymore. The point is this is just a tool so they do not have to look into every can or ask drivers to record every house without recyclables.

as far as getting rid of your old cans...
On Drum Point over by Wawa, one resident has actually created a mailbox post out of his old garbage can. He just turned the can upside down and taped the mailbox to the top of the can. Creative and classy!

I look at it this way, anything that has the "recycle" emblem on it, it goes into the recycling container and let them sort it out at the facility. if they don't want it they can remove it, it creates jobs.

you could try putting out your old recycling cans on the curb with a sign that says "take this" but they might just take the signs and leave the cans...sigh.

Also, most people don't realize that the bottle tops do NOT go with the plastic and glass. If they aren't careful Tinkerbelle is going to swoop down and they will be eating gruel for half of eternity. I am only half kidding the other half is true.

Did you know his guy use to work in the recreation department and was transferred to DWP for fighting with other employees? I guess this is the fair treatment acropolis's buddies get, eh?

Do your homework, this guy is freshly from the recreation department and was transferred to dwp as the recycling enforcer. Funny how this guy avoided layoffs back in 2008. This guy was transferred in 2007.

@dpwenforcer~ iIs that the guy they made the settlement to the lady for? She left town after they paid her. She was mumbling about elevators back then. Or is that the guy who was bullying his co~workers?

I agree about recycling not being all its cracked up to be. The moral issue aside someone would have to convince me with real numbers that with the current method it is cost effective to recycle plastic bottles. If my garbage can was full to the top with spring water bottles how much could it possibly weigh. I believe i read an article not that long ago about how the tipping fees were increased to a little over a hundred bucks. According to this article http://www.ocean.nj.us/PressReleaseDetailPage.aspx?Name=753 from three years ago the max plastic is sold at was $222 at its maximum and $128 low. Also from the article if I did my math correctly the tipping fee at that time was 72.16. If i add the tipping fee of 72.16 with the best case scenario price of 222 it comes to 294.16 total savings/earned. Does anyone believe that a bunch of union guys driving around in ridiculously expensive vehicles (insurance,maintenance,etc..that dont crush up anything by the way) while burning unbelivably expensive diesel is going to cost us less than 294.16 to pick up a TON of plastic water bottles and deliver it to the recycling facility.I dont think i can be convinced of that. The new method with a truck that presumably can crush up stuff like one of the garbage trucks might make it feasable but the currrent method seems to be a waste especially when you consider that they are picking up every week.

Why is an employee from DPW, who now works for the union, still on public payroll?

Why was he not dismisssed?

I wish it was burgundy to match my house.

Agree strongly. These cans are dented and an eyesore before being used. What genius ordered this crap?

all the ones I saw on my street had warped lids also, these are not as heavy duty as the regular trash cans are.

hopefully after the sun has a chance to heat them up a little the lid will seat itself properly.

I wish I was leaving soon. I have been going to school part time for a few years and I'm almost done with the next degree that I need to qualify for the position that I want. I'm so close I can almost taste it. LOL. I am honestly happy to hear from people that have found a way to get out of here. Good Luck to you.

Did you sell a home!?

Two things happened. Yes the are working overtime or the town forced the employee to take off on a monday or thursday. This usually only happens in rotation when an event is going on down at the beach or marina.Knowing its the off season and there aint stuff happening, the workers were receiving overtime unfortunately.

so contact the DPW and tell them you want a new one, take pic.'s w/ a date stamp so they know it just happened. give them a little time because they are probably in the new distribution phase and might handle exchanges at a later date.

my dumpster was delivered about 2 weeks ago w/ a warped lid that has since seated itself into a semi-normal position. i'm guessing w/ a little more time and some sun it will eventually be just fine.