As we have changed our habits and started to recycle more, we found it necessary to set up a dedicated area to organize our recyclables. This really helped us get motivated to recycle more. Bloomington, Indiana were we live has a great recycling program. The accept almost everything, including plastics #1-#7. This is excellent! Unfortunately, we live just outside of city limits so we take all of our recycling to Monroe County Solid Waste Management District Recycling and Reuse Center. They have a large central location and a couple of smaller rural centers. We can drop off almost all of our recycling (and our trash) there. MCSWMD only takes #1 & #2 plastic bottles. So our solution to this problem is to cut down on our use of products that come in #3-#7 and to drop off our #3-#7’s at my in-law’s. They live it the city.
So we are down to less than one bag of trash per week!
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