Big-ass recycling bins cause a ruckus on the Roslindale/JP line

Boston recently started a pilot program to see if it can increase our fair Hub's somewhat abominable recycling rates by replacing the old blue bins - which require newspapers to be saved separately - with these giant-sized trash-can like things that you can just dump everything (well, everything that's recyclable) into.

Kristie Helms reports from the front lines of the recycling wars - her neighborhood was one of the first to get them:

Easy peasy, yes?

You would think.

But the pilot program has created an uproar on the neighborhood's email list with more than 30 emails since the bins appeared on our curbs a couple of weeks ago. ...