I want to cut down on trash,start to recycle things.?

Question

what can i use to store plastic, cardboard in before i carry them off?

Answer 1

Start first with what you purchase.  Look for products which don't have unnecessary packaging.  Also, look for products that aren't in packaging that is too big for the contents.  I reuse, re-purpose and recycle almost everything I think can have another life.  If you have to recycle glass, plastic or cardboard, the 33 gallon bins they sell as trash bins are a great way to divide and store the items until you recycle them.

But, think carefully before you even sort the items to see whether there is at least one other way to use the item.  The plastic containers that food comes in are about the easiest to re-use.  The flat ones can be used as drawer dividers, paint palettes, or water catchers under plants.  Candle jars can be reused to store pasta, beans, bath salts, cotton balls, q-tips or dressed up to contain gifts. Plastic butter, sour cream, and cottage cheese containers can be re-used to store flour, sugar, grains, etc. air tight and can be dressed up with contact paper on the outside to obscure the label.  Aspirin, vitamin and supplement containers are a great way to sort screws, nails, and the little odds and ends in the garage.  Liquor bottles can be re-purposed by adding little pourer spouts to hold dish soap, liquid hand soap, oil and vinegars.  They can also be turned into oil lamps by adding wick holders (found at craft stores) and liquid paraffin or citronella oil.

Answer 2

We use garbage cans, a different one for each: cans, clear plastic, colored plastic and so on.  Untill we started to recycle I didn't reolize how much stuff you could recycle.

Answer 3

We live in an apartment and don't have a lot of space for our recyclables so we just use two cardboard boxes and put them under the sink in the kitchen. When we get done washing and drying what we are recycling we simply toss it under the cabinet and it works just fine.

Answer 4

maybe use one of card board boxes

Answer 5

Get empty apple boxes from the grocery store. One box for each type of recycle i.e. metal cans (flattened), plastic, newspapers, glass.... you get the idea

That way when the cardboard box becomes 'too used' it too can be recycled.

Answer 6

Stop buying so much c**p then......

Answer 7

Reduce - Reuse - Recycle (In that order!)

At the Isabella County Recycling Center, recycling is gathered with the following items together:

Newspapers, Magazines, Catalogs

Boxboard, Cardboard, Brown Bags

Plastic, Aluminum, Tin, Glass (clear or brown only)

Office paper (bagged in clear/translucent bag)