Blue bins spilled their contents on a windy day recently in the 2100 block of Geddes Street in Syracuse. The city was already a day behind in picking up recyclables. Syracuse plans to replace all blue bins with rolling cans by 2024.

Syracuse, N.Y. – Pity the poor blue bin, the workhorse of Onondaga County’s recycling program for a generation.

About 800,000 of the plastic bins have been filled and emptied, tossed and cracked, snowed and rained on, and crunched by cars and snowplows. Of those, 300,000 are in service.

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