parks, services
Driving along through Jackson Park the other day I noticed some bright blue containers, cousins to the trash bins 
all around town and placed there by The Chicago Park District. It says that right on the side of the new recycling cans. They're in Hyde Park too. Maybe they were at Lalapalooza but I wasn't so I don't know for sure.
Of course when I call to ask why they aren't all over town or whether there are plans to blanket the city with them soon it takes forever to get a live person and when and if I do they don't know what I'm talking about. Thus the photo.
You can see for yourself that these are meant for newspapers, aluminum cans and plastic bottles, just not glass. That seems fair.
I guess it's picky of me to want them to be in a more muted color so they're not so obvious but I s'pose that's the point, to be obvious.
(Addendum as of 8/21. I've seen them now in Lincoln Park as well.) Now you know we're making some environmental progress in at least parts of town.
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