The city’s first outdoor recycling bins are being installed next week for a trial run at Staten Island Ferry terminals and five parks, including Union Square.
Starting Monday, environmentally conscious New Yorkers will be able to dispose of newspapers and magazines in new green recycling bins, and bottles and cans in blue receptacles.
Officials said the three-month pilot project would be deemed a success if the “contamination rate” in the bins – meaning nonrecyclables – is about 5 percent, the same percentage as household recycling waste.