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NBR recycling question

BabyCarryingVesselBabyCarryingVessel member
in October 2012 Moms
We recycle cans, magazines and cardboard, but I need to start recycling plastic. Right now, cans go in a bag in the closet and magazines pile up until I finally haul them off, and cardboard boxes get flattened and lay in the laundry room until we can't take it anymore. I take recylcing to town because there isn't a pick up option where we live. If any of you have a great recycling set up, would you tell me about it?

 

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  • Mrs.G123Mrs.G123 member
    Our awesome city picks up everything but glass in one gigantic can. We keep it all in a garbage can in the pantry, glass seperate.
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  • BabyCarryingVesselBabyCarryingVessel member
    I haven't even considered glass. Yep, we have two decent sized garages. I have looked at some in-home recycling organizer bins, but I might as well just use regular trash cans and put my own signs on them.

     

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  • kross605kross605 member
    Id suggest setting up bins in your garage, maybe rubbermaid totes or something that you could put a lid on and load up in your car since you dont have pick up right at your house.

    We do have pickup every week with our trash so we just have to keep a small amount of recycling at a time. We keep a brown paper grocery bag in our pantry for any paper--newspaper, gently used napkins, junk mail, etc and then we keep a recycle bin right outside of the garage door for anything else so we literally open the door and toss it in the can without even entering the garage.
    Kudos to you for trying to recycle given your lack of community support! I know a lot of people just give up on recycling if its not a super easy single stream process.
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  • Melidee82Melidee82 member
    edited October 2013
    kross605 said:
    Kudos to you for trying to recycle given your lack of community support! I know a lot of people just give up on recycling if its not a super easy single stream process.
    Yup, I second that.  Our city picks up every other week and its single stream so everything gets tossed in the city-provided recycling bins that sit right outside the door to the garage.  We just open the door and drop the item in.  We can recycle glass, aluminum, paper and plastic #1-7.
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