What are steps needed to start a recycling routine?

I have always tried to be conscious of reuse and recycling, but never really do. I mostly reuse, trying to find many uses for containers and such. (That part is easly mostly because I paint a lot and use tin cans and such as water containers, or plastic plates as palates.

I do TRY to buy things with out a lot of excess packaging, and buy previously recycled items, I also compost table scraps...etc.

I am just disgusted with the amount of trash I send out...I do drink a lot of soda and that is a lot of what makes up the waste...When you take things to the recycling bin, what do you have to do to prepare them...wash? crush? rip labels?

Links would be great, are there other typical household items most people overlook when recycling? Thanks!

Answer:
In my town, almost all paper can be recycled. Thus, I keep a basket (fairly large) near where I open mail, and simply toss everything that doesn't need to be shredded into the basket. Newspapers also go in there, as well as scraps and eligible parts of packaging. When it's full, my son (supposedly - too often it's me!) empties the basket into the larger recycling container in the garage that goes out to the curb once a week. Since we started doing this, our regular trash has dropped by about 1/2.

I work for the city in the Solid Waste Division and i personally like the website www.recyclenow.com it is helpful and fun, you can go to your cities home page, and look up the public works department solid waste division and it should have local resources and tips. If you have any questions feel free to email me and i wll help you out. My email is vrdiprinzio@yahoo.com

I just chuck all of my used paper, plastic, cans etc into the recycling bin and the recyclers pick it up every week.

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