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Think back 10 years, my recycling bin was mostly cans and newspapers
I remember 2014ish, I just tossed everything in one bin and called it a day. My recycling was basically soda cans and the Sunday paper. Now I've got five different containers in my kitchen for glass, plastics, compost, and regular trash. The big change came when my city switched to single-stream recycling and then added organics pickup in 2020. I had to actually learn what numbers on plastic mean, like #1 and #2 are okay but #6 is basically garbage. The compost bin was weird at first, but now I'm saving about $8 a month on bags cause food scraps don't hit the landfill. Anyone else find that the rules for what can be recycled keep shifting and it's hard to keep straight?
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hall.joel28d ago
@jade517 same here, sometimes I just stare at my bins feeling guilty. What honestly helped was making a cheat sheet on my fridge. I printed out a little list of what goes where and taped it up. For plastics I just stick to #1 and #2, anything else gets tossed in regular trash cause it's basically worthless for recycling anyway. Compost took me a bit but now I keep a little countertop bucket with a charcoal filter so it doesn't stink. That $8 a month on bags you save adds up, plus the compost pickup made my trash can way less full.
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