This is really cool – I hope it catches on and is a huge success!  Free Green Can is a brilliant idea!

 

Chicago already has more than 2,000 bus shelters and sidewalk billboards that carry advertising and generate sorely needed revenue.

How about ad-bearing recycling bins?

City Hall has given Aurora-based Free Green Can the go-ahead to install its free recycling containers at city festivals this summer to test a concept already in place in downtown Oswego and at the Schaumburg Flyers stadium.

Chief Environmental Officer Sadhu Johnston disclosed the summer test after company officials were seen wheeling one of the ad-bearing containers into Johnston’s City Hall office earlier this week.

“It’s intriguing. All good ideas are intriguing,” he said, refusing to reveal the city’s potential share of ad revenue.

Read the whole story: Chicago Sun-Times