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FLINT, MI — Not everyone would describe a trash can with the affectionate words that Flint resident Renee Harvey does. But when you’ve cut your garbage output by two-thirds and want to see others do the same, the new rolling carts look pretty sweet. “This new recycle bin is beautiful,” Harvey said during a news conference on Monday, June 17.

“It’s going to hold at least three times the amount I usually (am able to) put at the curb.” “With a lid on top of it, I don’t have to worry about the rain getting everything soaked,” she said. Harvey joined city, state and corporate officials from Cascade Engineering on Monday to show off samples of the trash and recycling carts that they said should be delivered this fall and that could increase the material recycled in the city by 750% — from 624 tons per year to 5,400 tons annually.



The city’s current curbside program requires residents to take the initiative and provide their own recycling receptacles, cutting back on the number of households that would otherwise participate in recycling, advocates of the new program said. The dark gray, 96-gallon trash carts and 64-gallon blue recycling containers are being manufactured by the Grand Rapids-based company, Cascade. Flint’s containers will carry the city’s “Flint Strong” logo and be distributed to roughly 30,000 households.

The vessels are expected to last a decade or more, Mayor Sheldon Neeley said. The city is paying for the receptacles — which won�.

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