I feel fortunate to live in a city that offers a great recycling program. At our previous residence we didn’t have the luxury of someone picking up our recycling which resulted in our family exerting very little effort to recycle.

We currently have a large, 65-gallon blue recycling can with wheels. In fact our recycle bin is as large as our garbage can and we fill it to the brim weekly. More often than not, we have a meager 1-2 trash bag and an overflowing recycling bin.  Our city even offers additional recycling bins at no charge to residents, which is great! I personally love that we can recycle almost anything and not have to pre-sort, that’s done at the recycling center. The following materials are accepted as recyclable in my city:

Glass containers, Aluminum cans, Tin cans, Aerosol cans, Steel cans, Telephone books / paperback books, Paperboard / chipboard, Mixed paper, Paper grocery bags, Newspaper, magazines, catalogs, Corrugated cardboard, #1 Plastic, #2 Plastic, #3 Plastic, #4 Plastic, #5 Plastic, #6 Plastic, #7 Plastic…

My seven year old daughter had a conversation with an adult friend several months ago about the numbers on recyclable items. I’d seen them but never paid much attention. She elaborated and explained her knowledge about the numbers. Today, I ran across this article defining and describing the meanings of each number. There are seven numbers in total and each represents the different plastics used. I found this article very informative and wanted to share. I think it’s important to recycle, I enjoy doing it. I also appreciate better understanding what it means to properly recycle.

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