Large recycling bins may not fit in older New Orleans neighborhoods | NOLA.com

Ted Jackson, The Times-Picayune archive

Recycling workers were photographed separating
cardboard, plastic and glass in Baton Rouge in December 2008.

With the city due to open bids Friday for 50,000 of the 64-gallon wheeled, covered bins to be used when curbside recycling resumes in early May, the chairwoman of the City Council's Sanitation Committee said Wednesday that the large receptacles are "not going to work" in many old neighborhoods where few homes have driveways or other places to store them.

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