The RiNo Arts District has announced a beautification program that will place 96 trash and recycling bins along four streets, with the locations picked following community feedback and assessment of need.

Denver Day Works, the city’s day labor program for adults experiencing homelessness, will be in charge of emptying the bins.

“We are delighted that our new waste bins have been designed in RiNo by a locally-based start-up,” said RiNo Art District project director John Deffenbaugh. “The scale of homelessness in Denver is tragic, and we are keen to support those affected however we can. No one should be without a roof over their head, particularly at this time of year.”

The district touches the Denver neighborhoods of Globeville, Elyria-Swansea, Five Points and Cole. The bins — one each for recycling and trash — will be along Larimer, Walnut and Blake streets, and on Brighton Boulevard. Larimer Street will have the most sites, at 17.

The bins will have “an anti-graffiti finish commonly used on subway trains,” the district noted.

Colorado’s percentage of waste diverted from homes and businesses before it reaches landfills stood at 17.2% in 2018. That is half of the national average.

Denver, at 21% diversion due to recycling and composting, did better than the Front Range as a whole, according to Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment data. Outside the Front Range counties, however, diversion dropped to below 11%.