Make Recycling Bins more widely available on Boston streets
Target:
Boston, MA
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Boston is a renowned walking city full of tourists and locals alike. There are trash cans on every block in highly trafficked areas but no recycling bins available. Most of the trash in the cans could have been recycled. Please sign this petition to implore our city's government to remedy this issue. Our goal is to have recycling bins on every block in highly trafficked areas such as: Newbury Street, Charles Street, Fenway Park and the Downtown crossing area.
Why should you care? The trash that is not biodegradable usually ends up in our water ways and gets eaten by sea life then in turn goes back into our food. We end up eating it!
Food for thought: South Korea, Japan, and San Francisco, to name a few are having amazing results.
San Francisco Story
South Korea's Doing it!
Why should you care? The trash that is not biodegradable usually ends up in our water ways and gets eaten by sea life then in turn goes back into our food. We end up eating it!
- Plastic bottles take 700 years to begin composting
- 90% of the cost of bottled water is due to the bottle itself
- 80% of plastic bottles are not recycled
- 38 million plastic bottles go to the dump per year in America from bottled water (not including soda)
- 24 million gallons of oil are needed to produce a billion plastic bottles
- The average American consumes 167 bottles of water a year
- Bottling and shipping water is the least energy efficient method ever used to supply water
- Bottled water is the second most popular beverage in the United States
Food for thought: South Korea, Japan, and San Francisco, to name a few are having amazing results.
San Francisco Story
South Korea's Doing it!
Boston is a renowned walking city full of tourists and locals alike. There are trash cans on every block in highly trafficked areas but no recycling bins available. Most of the trash in the cans could have been recycled. Please sign this petition to implore our city's government to remedy this issue. Our goal is to have recycling bins on every block in highly trafficked areas such as: Newbury Street, Charles Street, Fenway Park and the Downtown crossing area.
Why should you care? The trash that is not biodegradable usually ends up in our water ways and gets eaten by sea life then in turn goes back into our food. We end up eating it!
Food for thought: South Korea, Japan, and San Francisco, to name a few are having amazing results.
San Francisco Story
South Korea's Doing it!
Why should you care? The trash that is not biodegradable usually ends up in our water ways and gets eaten by sea life then in turn goes back into our food. We end up eating it!
- Plastic bottles take 700 years to begin composting
- 90% of the cost of bottled water is due to the bottle itself
- 80% of plastic bottles are not recycled
- 38 million plastic bottles go to the dump per year in America from bottled water (not including soda)
- 24 million gallons of oil are needed to produce a billion plastic bottles
- The average American consumes 167 bottles of water a year
- Bottling and shipping water is the least energy efficient method ever used to supply water
- Bottled water is the second most popular beverage in the United States
Food for thought: South Korea, Japan, and San Francisco, to name a few are having amazing results.
San Francisco Story
South Korea's Doing it!
We signed the "Make Recycling Bins more widely available on Boston streets" petition!
# 145:
5:19 am PDT, Oct 31,
Helle Collin, Denmark
# 144:
8:08 am PDT, Oct 30,
Forest Venkat, India
# 143:
5:38 pm PDT, Oct 21,
Annie Sheppard, Indiana
# 142:
8:22 pm PDT, Sep 30,
Glenn Brown, Nebraska
# 141:
8:27 pm PDT, Sep 13,
Rita Kitabjian, Massachusetts
# 140:
6:41 pm PDT, Sep 13,
Rhonda Kitabjian, Massachusetts
I think it's terrible that Boston is so behind other large cities. Even Logan Airport has no Recycling. They should go to the Museum of Science where recycling is everywhere and they have hundreds of thousands of guests every day!!! Get with it Boston!! You cleaned up the Warf now clean up your town!
I think it's terrible that Boston is so behind other large cities. Even Logan Airport has no Recycling. They should go to the Museum of Science where recycling is everywhere and they have hundreds of thousands of guests every day!!! Get with it Boston!! You cleaned up the Warf now clean up your town!
# 139:
11:23 am PDT, Aug 14,
Austin Kendall, New York
# 138:
7:11 am PDT, Jul 25,
Sylwia Podgórska, Poland
# 137:
2:19 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Ryan Pakenas, Massachusetts
# 136:
7:03 am PDT, Jul 7,
ALPHA WI, Germany
# 135:
8:54 am PDT, Jul 6,
Bryan Jarrett, Massachusetts
# 134:
7:22 am PDT, Jul 6,
Brian Warshay, Massachusetts
I absolutely agree with this petition and feel that most cities need to co-locate recycling bins with trash bins on their busiest pedestrian streets. There may be a slight increase in costs for collection and to purchase the bins, but it may be cost effective in terms of avoided garbage disposal costs and, depending on the revenue sharing agreement, for the sale of recyclables. I would like to point out that I do not believe the statement about trash ending up in our waterways is valid. Trash (or recyclables), when properly disposed of by residents, will not end up in our water. In Boston, much of it goes to waste-to-energy facilities where it is burned and creates electricity, typically in a much cleaner way than coal or oil fueled power plants. Trash (or recyclables) that ends up in landfills is usually well contained due to the strict federal standards regulating them.
I absolutely agree with this petition and feel that most cities need to co-locate recycling bins with trash bins on their busiest pedestrian streets. There may be a slight increase in costs for collection and to purchase the bins, but it may be cost effective in terms of avoided garbage disposal costs and, depending on the revenue sharing agreement, for the sale of recyclables. I would like to point out that I do not believe the statement about trash ending up in our waterways is valid. Trash (or recyclables), when properly disposed of by residents, will not end up in our water. In Boston, much of it goes to waste-to-energy facilities where it is burned and creates electricity, typically in a much cleaner way than coal or oil fueled power plants. Trash (or recyclables) that ends up in landfills is usually well contained due to the strict federal standards regulating them.
# 133:
2:18 am PDT, Jul 4,
Elaine Robinson, United Kingdom
RECYCLING BINS WORLD WIDE PLEASE
RECYCLING BINS WORLD WIDE PLEASE
# 132:
6:53 pm PDT, Jul 2,
Steve Dale, Australia
# 131:
6:04 pm PDT, Jul 2,
Andrea Dierna, Massachusetts
# 130:
7:54 am PDT, Jul 1,
Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin
# 129:
1:27 am PDT, Jul 1,
Razvan V., Romania
# 128:
8:09 am PDT, Jun 30,
L Waldron, Florida
# 127:
5:42 pm PDT, Jun 29,
Name not displayed, Illinois
# 126:
3:23 pm PDT, Jun 27,
Lynn Barnes, Michigan
# 125:
12:42 pm PDT, Jun 25,
Ashley Burgess, Massachusetts
# 124:
12:35 pm PDT, Jun 25,
Molly Aldrich, Massachusetts
I had tried more than once to get a recycling bin for my apartment and it has been a hassel and I still do not have one. It's terrible...
I had tried more than once to get a recycling bin for my apartment and it has been a hassel and I still do not have one. It's terrible...
# 123:
12:14 pm PDT, Jun 25,
Name not displayed, Massachusetts
# 122:
10:21 am PDT, Jun 25,
Patrick Hopkins, Massachusetts
# 121:
9:50 am PDT, Jun 25,
Name not displayed, Massachusetts
We should be more considerate and help keep our earth clean.
We should be more considerate and help keep our earth clean.
# 120:
9:44 am PDT, Jun 25,
Meagan Fitzgerald, Massachusetts
# 119:
9:15 am PDT, Jun 25,
Alison Bankowski, New Hampshire
# 118:
7:28 am PDT, Jun 25,
Lytton Patrick Brown Fürst-Bretzenheim, Canada
# 117:
7:16 am PDT, Jun 25,
Justin Brady, Massachusetts
# 116:
6:48 am PDT, Jun 25,
Evan Mullen, Massachusetts
# 115:
6:27 am PDT, Jun 25,
Jessica Joyner, Massachusetts
# 114:
9:14 am PDT, Jun 24,
Brittany Burton, Massachusetts
# 113:
6:19 am PDT, Jun 24,
Robert Quevillon, Massachusetts
# 112:
6:09 pm PDT, Jun 23,
Rachel Liverman, Massachusetts
# 111:
5:47 pm PDT, Jun 23,
Alicia Murray, Massachusetts
Alicia Dallas Murray
Alicia Dallas Murray
# 110:
3:49 pm PDT, Jun 23,
Heather Klein, Massachusetts
# 109:
2:47 pm PDT, Jun 23,
Jonathan Ralton, Massachusetts
# 108:
2:21 pm PDT, Jun 23,
Tien Dao, Massachusetts
We need some more recycling bins and should be spread across the state, not only in Boston. Non-city people don't even know what a trash compactor is because it doesn't even exist in their area.
We need some more recycling bins and should be spread across the state, not only in Boston. Non-city people don't even know what a trash compactor is because it doesn't even exist in their area.
# 107:
11:41 am PDT, Jun 23,
Name not displayed, Massachusetts
# 106:
11:35 am PDT, Jun 23,
Christine Kurtz, Massachusetts
# 105:
11:32 am PDT, Jun 23,
Luke Ryan, Massachusetts
# 104:
10:32 am PDT, Jun 23,
Regina Marotto, Massachusetts
# 103:
10:23 am PDT, Jun 23,
Becka M, Massachusetts
# 102:
10:23 am PDT, Jun 23,
Vanessa MacAulay, Massachusetts
# 101:
10:22 am PDT, Jun 23,
Tanya Vellaringattu, Massachusetts
I care about this earth.
I care about this earth.
