Downtown is about to get a bit greener.

By mid-November, the city plans to install 20 recycling bins in downtown Lawrence. The effort coincides with the city’s rollout of a curbside recycling program, which is on schedule to begin in mid-October. The new bins will be a dual purpose container with trash on one side and recycled goods on the other. They’ll replace the current trash cans currently offered on the public sidewalks.

Recycling your downtown parking ticket in the bin probably won’t do you much good, but the containers will be single source, meaning you can recycle everything from your unwanted plastic shopping sack to your aluminum soda can all in the same container.

City officials have said depending on usage, they may add more containers to downtown in 2015.