Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Is Chicago throwing away $40 million?


Chicago is turning its back on $40 million in guaranteed revenue over the next 10 years -- and 25,000 free trash/recycling bins -- by ignoring an Aurora company's offer to install "Free Green Cans" bearing advertising across the city.


Steve Holland, founder of Free Green Can, said he was closing in on an agreement with City Hall after a test last summer that saw the company install 65 free containers at Taste of Chicago.

Chicago is ignoring an Aurora company's offer to install "Free Green Cans" bearing advertising across the city.

But no sooner had the experiment ended than Chief Environmental Officer Sadhu Johnston resigned to take a job in Vancouver. That stopped the deal dead in its tracks. Daley has yet to name a replacement.

Free Green Can is offering the cash-strapped city 10 percent of all advertising revenue for 10 years with a minimum annual guarantee of $4 million. The 25,000 free cans would save the city another $4 million-a-year
Complete story at
http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/2052848,CST-NWS-freecans17.article

How about this? Let a private company come in and place trash cans along 75th, 79th, 87th so soe of the trash we see can be placed in these cans.

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