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Koreatown Resident Scott Lyness made it clear that the city of Los Angeles was looking to address its food crisis.

While Bicycling was running, he noticed an increasing number of green hats coming in on the curbs. He read the notice posted at his home instructing residents to expect green beaches to be delivered at a certain time.

Still, Lyness wasn’t prepared for what came next: 13 green bins were installed earlier this month outside a rundown apartment building on New Hampshire Avenue.

That’s on top of the three bins that were introduced last week in the small construction that he also manages next door, and the two green bins that are already being used by those areas.

Lyness, 69, who works as a project manager at USC, said the two buildings don’t have anywhere near the room to store the many full cans — and don’t generate enough waste to fill them. He has tried to have his tenants contact city offices to say they don’t need them. He said he even thought of throwing himself into the street.

“Our neighbors are full of green waste bins,” she said.

City authorities are working furiously to separate their food waste – eggshells, coffee bones, the chastering law of the spy, to move the professed, online chatbot that can help residents decide what and can not go to the Green bin.

SB 1383 requires that 75% of organic waste be diverted away from landfills by the end of the year and turned into compost instead. Food and other organic waste sent to landfills are an important source of methane, a waste gas. Methane has a global warming potential that is 80 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.

To achieve that goal, teams from LA’s Bureau of Sanitation have placed large numbers of 90-gallon green bins in front of homes, including dulecles, tripbelixes, large buildings arranged in a curbside trash collection system.

Residents have become accustomed to the green bins, which were used for lorn clippings and other yard waste but are now a food court.

Large apartment buildings in LA have been spared from the latest round of green deliveries, because they participate in Recycla, a City Trash Fresh Franchise program that relies on private waste incineration.

Sanitation officials say angels who prefer smaller, more manageable containers should fill out a form to get a 30- or 60-gallon container. They point out that the bins are part of a larger effort by the city to reach its zero-waste goals and “lead in sustainability.”

Most of Green BINS’ content is taken from the Bakersfield area, where the compost comes from and can be used by farmers, said Heather Johnson, a sewer spokeswoman.

“While others may find [the bins] Disturbingly at the moment, in the short term they will result in diverted pollution and cleaner air,” Johnson said in an email.

Despite those big goals, the angels have teased the “Great Green Bin Apocalypse of 2025,” as journalist and podcaster Alissa Walker describes the situation with Bluesky. Walker recently shared a photo showing what appears to be green grass in front of one property, next to an abandoned couch.

She wrote: “This one is probably my favorite. I love how well they submit to each other and get out of bed.”

Green grass bins outside an apartment house in Koreatown.

(Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times)

After Walker urged others to post photos, Lake Residence Tommy Newman posted a photo via Bluesky showing eight blocks outside the eight-unit building outside of it.

“Unless they’re running a juice bar there, how could they possibly do this kind of crap every week?” WARTE NENDANI, who works at the County Housing Agency.

Over at X, another viewer sums up the silliness differently. “LA gave all too many families to the green bin because of a totalitarian fever dream about cheating,” one person wrote. “I have 5 myself.”

In the past months, the Agency of La’s sation has sent groups of “ambassadors” to the neighborhoods to educate residents about the need to throw food in the green bins.

That means keeping food out of the 60-gallon black bin where residents tend to dump most of their trash, ultimately waking up to land loss. Recyclable materials, including glass and aluminum, will continue to go in the blue bins.

The changes are also spelled out in fliers sent out by the City last summer, with a clear warning in all capital letters: “Unless we hear from you soon, we will be moving 90 green containers to your property.”

Thick saw those show and knew about the change. But he contends that most people would have missed the news or thrown the scars. Lowering the number of bins around the city is not the only way to encourage people to dispose of their waste, he said.

The city’s new food waste program, which is expected to cost $66 million a year, is one of the reasons why the City Council approved a large increase in garbage fees earlier this year, sometimes doubling. A 90-gallon green bottle costs the city $58.61, including tax, although residents are not billed directly for late deliveries.

Sanitation authorities say they have delivered more than 65,000 green bins to the city, with 4,000 to go. For residents waiting to be removed or replaced with a smaller bib, only 1,000 orders can be processed on a normal business day, those officials said.

Around the corner on North Berendo Street, neighbor Lucy Alvidrez admitted that the green bins were heavy when she dragged them into her black bin Thursday afternoon.

“They sure got taken with it,” she said, pointing across the street to an apartment building with about 12 green animals in its green wheat.

Alvidrez, 69 years old, who lived in the twentieth block, never had a problem with garbage collection until the city threw four green bins, one in each part of his building. He was luckier than Lynness: the sewers took two of the bins back, on request.

Alvidrez said he would prefer that the city “use our money to feed the homeless” instead of buying bins that no one needs, he said.

The organic chicken is green organic waste living on the street in Koreatown..

(Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times)

Nearby, Lyness opened a neighbor’s green bin, which was filled to the brim with trash that didn’t show up and should have gone in the black bin. If no one knows what to put in the green bins, nothing will improve, he said.

Herente cried and said: “Rubbish. “Everything is rubbish.”