Great idea! Lakewood needs recycling bins!

Agreed! We only put our garbage can out once a month with it only half full. However our recycling has at least 4 bags a week. Can't wait to get a bin!

$53 per container? Bags work fine, save the money and/or spend it on something else.

Great move and the right direction for cities to take, income from recycling while decreasing both the cost and the amount going to Landfill. I am proud to live in a progressive city like Lakewood.

This is wonderful news. I definitely think it will encourage people to recycle more because it makes it so easy, AND we will reduce the number of plastic bags.

I hope that my small commercial apartment building will continue to be able to have the city pick up our recyclables. When the city changed to the automated system, I was forced to pay $100 a month for a private company to pick up our trash. I have 7 tenants in a 7 unit building and I'm sure there are plenty of residential properties where more residents than I in Lakewood. Plus I pay more in taxes than the same value residential property. Also my taxes did not decrease due to the lost of city service.

Any word on if paper is going to be included, or will the bins be restricted to the same streams that go in the blue bags now? (I'm assuming it's the latter)

This may seem like progress, but in the end it will end up being a headache for everyone, mostly the residents. Beyond the issue of parking, we will now have to find space in our postage stamp sized back yards for two large cans instead of one. Not only that, for the one or two bags most people generate in one week, I don't think it necessitates the huge containers that will be given out.

And, what about the elderly? While my mother is young enough that she doesn't have to ask the city to pick up her trash in the back yard (as they do for some residents that are house-bound), she is old enough and has other issues that will make it a huge hassle for her to be dragging two containers to the curb.

This has disaster written all over it.

What a stupendous idea! Look forward to the end of the blue bags. Maybe we can do away with the traffic jams caused by the moveable carts unloading into the trucks.
For business, install commercial recycling bins along with trash bins. Keep those juices flowing into reducing costs for Lakewood!

I put my garbage can out for pickup on the side of the street that cars are parked. I watch the garbage truck operator reach for the garbage cans skilfully without damaging the parked cars. I think it would be quicker, more economical and cost savings to have cars parked on one side of the street and garbage pickup on the opposite side of the strecuret. I am 65 years old, I can wheel my garbage can to my curb, I can just as easily wheel it across the road to the curb on the opposite side of the street with no cars parked for pickup.

Public works director Joe Beno let me know — for additional clarity — that the city would only implement a third of the project at a time.

Lakewood is a horrible place to live in police are criminals racist along with court system what a shame they need to clean up new judge new police chief

LOL, Take a look on your street to see who recycles? I live on Winchester and I bet 1/3 recycle. They don't check to see who recycles or not. I spoke to The Mayor's office a year ago. They told me it's up to the driver to issue warnings? You think the driver is going to get out of his truck for 2/3 of the people just on one street? Hell, I set out my recyclables and people drive by and steal the pop cans out of the bag! Lakewood needs to fine tune their program before they start throwing my money(taxes) out the window!

I got arrested for being white

what ever happened to the recycling containers we used to have? and i for one would like containers instead of the blue bags (that end up all over when the weather is windy)

police the court system will set you up even if you never done anything and thats a fact recycled = change in community