Starting Wednesday, March 25, The City of San Diego has begun delivering new recycling bins to households eligible for City-provided trash and recycling collection service. The City is replacing the older dark blue recycling bins with new, light blue bins to help ensure service is provided only to eligible customers and at the correct service level. The new bins are more durable, easy to identify, better labeled and equipped with scannable tags to improve reliability and accountability.
For most customers, delivery will occur on their regular trash day, and crews will remove the old dark blue recycling bins on that day as well. With more than 225,000 households eligible for City-provided trash service, The process will be phased over several months, with some properties receiving their new bins in early fall. Deliveries are scheduled by route and collection day of the week and will be conducted citywide, Monday through Friday, until everyone has received their new recycling bin.
“We’re excited for customers to experience the benefit of these new recycling bins,” said Jeremy Bauer, Assistant Director for Environmental Services. “As with the new gray trash bins, the new recycling bins include scannable tags that will help the City track performance and continually improve service, a key part of our commitment to serving customers better every day. And we want residents to rest assured that old containers are being recycled, with the material made available to create new bins or other plastic products.”…