{"id":1394,"date":"2012-12-13T11:36:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T19:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2013-04-19T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T22:07:35","slug":"no-more-black-garbage-cans-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/no-more-black-garbage-cans-really\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Black Garbage Cans &#8230; Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>Barron Park neighbors \u2013 The City Council is going to act next Monday (Dec 17th) on a recommendation by Public Works Staff \u00a0to eliminate pickups of black garbage carts. Not yet for everybody, just for folks in some as-yet-unidentified area. It\u2019s to be a one year, pilot study in which all wastes\u00a0would be\u00a0placed in either the green or blue carts, eliminating entirely the\u00a0collection from black garbage carts.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The idea is that kitchen wastes now disposed of in the black garbage carts would instead be deposited by those residents in the pilot study area into the green \u2018compostable\u2019 carts\u00a0. These materials would be recovered by the workers after collection, and instead of ending up in landfills, they will be sent to some composting facility. Some of the other the smelly stuff \u2013 including dirty diapers and bags of doggy poop  \u2013 along with other &#8216;garbage&#8217; materials would go into the blue &#8216;recycling&#8217; carts, and be separated by workers at another site. The one year pilot would start in March 2013, and data collected would determine feasibility of applying this change to residential collections citywide.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0You can read the staff report here:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofpaloalto.org\/civicax\/filebank\/documents\/32395\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cityofpaloalto.org\/civicax\/filebank\/documents\/32395<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>What do you think about this ?\u00a0\u00a0 A discussion has started on BPA-issues email list.<\/div>\n<div>[polldaddy poll=6767122]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barron Park neighbors \u2013 The City Council is going to act next Monday (Dec 17th) on a recommendation by Public Works Staff \u00a0to eliminate pickups of black garbage carts. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-palo-alto","category-public-works-and-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}