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The town where I live encourages recycling, but does not enforce it. I chose to recycle what I can, and what they take for recycling. At this point in time, they take #1 and 2 plastic, and metal. They have a big multi compartment bin for the plastic and, in the warm months, they have a big bin for all the scrap metal. Since they don't provide the scrap bin in the winter, I save my cans all winter in a couple of garbage cans.
I use a tote to collect the plastic in until it's full, I keep the tote in the back porch.
When the tote is full, I haul it out to the Explorer to take it to the city bin.
It's only about a half a mile to the city maintenance building where the plastic recycling bin is, so it doesn't take very long to take care of it. I usually wait until I have to go out for something else, and then just add it to the trip.
I collect the cans in an empty cat litter bucket, that seems to work pretty well. When the bucket gets full, I take it outside and dump it into my storage trash can. When the snow all melts and the city puts their scrap bin out again, I'll take the garbage cans there and get rid of the winter's accumulation of cans.
We burn most of our paper trash, and I compost most of the food waste, so we only fill up a garbage can full of garbage about every other week or so. I'd like to think I'm not adding quite so much to the landfill by doing these things. I suppose there are a few more things I could be doing, but plastic packaging is so prevalent these days that it's hard to get away from it. I do what I can to lower my footprint on the earth, even with living in town.
Well, that's all I have for this post, I hope you found it interesting, and perhaps it gave you an idea or 2 for your own recycling efforts.
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