Recycling Center

We've been avid recyclers for years and our recycling efforts have grown bigger and more organized over the years as well.   Here is our home recycling center.

These are trash cans we have collected over the years.  I think we purchased a couple of them new, but others were picked up at resale centers, such as our local Habitat ReStore.  They are located just outside the kitchen door so they are handy and easy to get to.

The first one (leftmost) holds our regular non-recyclable trash.  The next one is for plastic.  The black holds tin cans and the last one is for aluminum cans.  You can just barely see the container that we put glass to the left of the regular trash.  Finally, we collect paper inside the house in a regular paper grocery bag.

Since we recycle so much of our waste, it takes a couple of weeks to fill a trash can.  About once a month, Tom loads everything into the truck and makes a trip into town to the recycling center.  They take all the glass, plastic, tin, aluminum and paper free and charge a fee of $1.50 per bag for regular trash.  That is just pretty darn cheap for trash disposal!