Wilmington, North Carolina, short of recycling bins

WECT, Wilmington, North Carolina, reports that only 19 recycling bins are allocated throughout Wilmington  compared with 150 trash receptacles.

Rick Porter, Wilmington’s solid waste manager, cites the $1,500 cost of recycling bins and trash cans, meaning a pair would cost the city $3,000, WECT reports.

“The purchase price is high,” Porter says in the article. “Especially when you are talking about numbers over 100 to match them with the trash receptacles.” 

Porter adds that the bins require a separate collection truck and concrete slab for installation, WECT reports. 

“I think the cost of theses trash cans is mind blowing,” Kelsey Gibbs, owner of The Wonder Shop in downtown Wilmington, tells WECT. “And I really think as a city we should shop around and try to find a better source of these trash cans so we can have a recycling bin beside our trash cans and not have it cost $3,000.”