Quincy Center loads up Big Bellies?

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Quincy Center loads up on big bellies?

After the initial trial run sponsored by Stop and Shop several years ago, the City of Quincy appears to have greatly increased the number of solar-powered trash compacting trash receptacles in Quincy Center – or is at least putting  them back out on the street as the Hancock Street Misalignment project has begun to show signs of its perhaps actual completion.

As locals will recall, the original test units took quite a beating during the just barely record-setting snowfall during the Winter of 2015 as well as in general.

What local may not know is that normally the deal with Big Belly™ is that this company sells ad space on its trash compactor units a la what the MBTA does in as well as on its buses, trains, stops and stations.

Another prominent local belly
A Patriot Ledger photo

Given the press of publishing deadlines as well as how City Hall is loath to even but acknowledge the existence of Quincy Quarry News,  Quincy Quarry was unable to discern if only Stop and Shop is paying an advertising fee to Big Belly™ and thus that Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch might perhaps be piggybacking his own self-promoting on local Big Belly™ trash compactors.

As local will recall, Mayor Koch wants to see Boston Scientific do something similar to promote the City of Quincy somehow or other – as well as probably also pro bono as far as the City of Quincy is concerned – within Boston Scientific’s still pending plans to revise its current signage at its North Quincy warehousing facility. 

Apparently, Mayor Koch does not appreciation the likely confusion that would result from noting both Boston and Quincy in a single sign that is best visible to those traveling on the Central Artery while in the City of Boston.

Even so, the growing legions of loyal Quincy Quarry readers are surely capable to discern  the most likely scenario.

Trash and snow piled up high
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Regardless, at least these big bellies are a much less unattractive alternative to the old and often overflowing old fashioned open trash receptacles that used to litter Quincy Center.

Unfortunately, the old fashioned open trash receptacles continue to litter most of the rest of the Q wherever public trash receptacles are to be found.

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