City gets OK to sell off bins

August 26, 2012

Hundreds of surplus trash bins sit behind the Woonsocket Public Works Department building on River Street Friday. (Photo/Ernest A. Brown)

WOONSOCKET – Mayor Leo T. Fontaine has gotten the Budget Commission’s OK to negotiate the sale of thousands of surplus trash bins, but it turns out he doesn’t have as much bargaining leverage as he hoped.
The bins are so awkwardly bulky, and there are so many of them — over 10,000 in all — that it would be a logistical nightmare to transport them very far, says Fontaine.
Translation: They’re almost certainly heading for the neighboring town of Cumberland.

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