Grant provides trash cans in Poland

By Denise Dick

The receptacles have been placed throughout the village.

POLAND — Rather than carrying home that candy wrapper or plastic bag of puppy excrement, pedestrians throughout the village have a place to deposit trash while out for a stroll.

Six trash receptacles have been placed throughout the village.

“It was a joint effort on the part of village council and Streetscapes,” said Bat LaPlante of Town One Streetscapes.

The entities received a $2,780 grant from Mahoning County’s Recycling and Reuse Division, also called the Green Team, to buy six trash receptacles to be set up through town. The village and the group also kicked in about $300 for the receptacles.

“They’ve already been placed all over town,” said Mayor Tim Sicafuse.

One marks the stairs to Yellow Creek Theatre on U.S. Route 224. A second sits at the Poland branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County on state Route 170. There’s one at Cortland Street and Route 170, one at the parking lot of village hall and one at College Street and 170, said Barbara Delisio, a Streetscapes member.

A location for the sixth trash can hasn’t been determined, she said.

“There are a lot of walkers — I’m a walker myself — and you see a lot of trash,” Delisio said. “If there was a place for people to put the trash, maybe they would use that instead.”

Other than Peterson Park at U.S. 224 and routes 170 and 616 and at private businesses, there were no trash cans in the village, she said.

The grant application requested $7,000 for seven trash and seven recycling receptacles.

“We’ll try again next year” for recycling receptacles, Delisio said.

The village street department will empty the cans, the mayor said.

The cans are made of recycled steel and designed to blend with the colonial look of village architecture and decor, Streetscapes said.