if you are interested in knowing where to go for this. go on line to: phila.gov/streets/recyling_partnership.html

While the parnership recycling programs are good.. and support worthy causes.. with the expansion of increased recycling (materials accepted) and single-stream recycling throughout the city, they will probably wind up dying out and being phased out. There have already been problems with the program, bureaucratically. If you want to support these community groups, there are probably better ways to do so than dragging your recycling to them.

BTW, the working url is http://www.phila.gov/streets/recyling_partnership.html
doing so with the url as you posted doesn't get through.

After the beginning of the year, and Nutter and council working together, single stream will probably come to the fishtown/kensington/richmond, NL, and north philly communities soon enough.

Anyways, for a while the partnership recycling programs were the best places in the city to bring your #1 & #2 plastics, and your corregated cardboard. With the inclusion of these things in single stream recycling, and the recent expansion of single stream recycling to more areas, there are other improvements that can be made.

the city's current primary recycling site is http://recyclingpays.phila.gov/

Those being:

weekly recycling collection city-wide.

some people would support the adoption of recylingbank citywide (it would increase rates through incentives and SIGNIFICANTLY reduce or eliminate worker injury and wear and tear on their bodies.)

A drop-off center for non-1&2 plastics, and other unwanted but reusable or recyclable items in the city. (probably by a private nonprofit entity, not the city.. if you want to see this sort of thing happen, individuals need to get involved to make it happen.)

While I agree that recycling expansion should come to our communities as quickly as possible, I don't think you should tell people not to recycle their materials that the city is not yet recycling.

Until we have real recycling, partnership programs are the best and probably the only practical way for neighbors to recycle plastic, cardboard, etc.

Please continue to bring your things to the partnership recycling sites in Fishtown & Northern Liberties.

Our next drop-off day is January 5th from 9am-Noon at Montgomery & Moyer. We're also collecting food, winter coats and clothing for distribution to local charities that work with those in need.

And nowhere did I tell people not to recycle.

"If you want to support these community groups, there are probably better ways to do so than dragging your recycling to them."

I guess you didn't say it per se, but the above quote discouraged participation.

Anyway, it seems like we both want greater recycling, so I'm sorry.

kind of related but not

did the city stop recycling glass or something?
the past two recycling days, i come home and all of the soup cans and cat food cans are out of my blue bucket, but all of the glass is still sitting there

i'm baffled

Did you notice whether your neighbor's recyclables were picked up?

Some possibilities:

If neighbor's recyclables were not picked up - it could be you both got the wrong week, or the recycling trucks weren't there yet.

Then you wonder why the glass is there and not the metal - well, it is a common problem that people steal the metals (especially aluminum) from municipal recycling collection bins to turn it in for $$.

The other question is.. is all the glass you are putting out only bottle glass? The city doesn't collect window or picture frame glass, etc.

Are the bottles stuck in the bottom of the container? (some stuff could be left behind if it's jammed in the container and doesn't fall out when they dump the container).

Are the bottles clean? (unlikely they would catch dirty ones in a bucket full of other recyclables.. but the stuff you put out should be clean.)

Assuming you're putting them out on the right day, which you probably already checked given where this thread started, and that (like mine) your neighbors don't generally recycle so you can't be sure that way, I've watched a man (who I presume to be homeless) come pick through my recycling for cans, leaving the glass behind. I figured, hey, if he can get a meal out of recycling them for money, fine by me.

So if it went all day (and it was definitely a recycling week), and the glass was still there, then it sounds like you got missed (and could call the Streets commission if it keeps happening), but I'd hazard a guess someone less official picked up the cans.

For uncollected trash /recycling, call 686-5560

As the other poster said, I frequently have homeless people taking cans out of my recycling early Friday as I'm getting ready to go to work (7:30 or so). No skin off my back, really. Sounds like they're getting to you but the city isn't.

I try to leave my recycling bucket out in a very visible location. I've seen the recycling guys pick up the buckets on my street, and they don't go house to house like the trash truck does. They pull over, a couple of guys jump off, look around for buckets and walk down the street to grab bins and bring them back to the truck. If it's not easily in view when they hop off, they probably aren't going to pick them up, so I make sure my trash cans aren't hiding the bins from view.