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Home Depot has recycling containers. All kinds of sizes too! I bought a square section 30 L can for $12.00.

The city of Jacksonville would provide recycling buckets for free to its residents. They stopped that for some reason. When I moved to Riverside, I was excited to be able to recycle. People told me that I had to use brown paper bags. Even COJ would pick up waste for recycling only if it is in a marked blue bin or a brown paper bag.

I shop with a canvas bag. It seemed redundant to ask for a brown paper bag to throw away recyclables since not using is better than recycling. I started separating my recyclables from regular trash from day one in my new apartment. The first few loads were thrown with regular trash. I couldn’t find recycling bins anywhere. That till my friend spotted one at Home Depot while scouting for Bike Valet related stuff. I bought one today.

Recycling is the last stage in conservation of resources. The first is reducing consumption. I filled up my new blue bin with junk from the pseudo-recycling-trash-can. It was mostly full of dog food cans, some plastic soda bottles and two beer bottles. The plastic soda bottles are what my friend consumes when he spends time here. I mostly buy fresh produce and very little packaged produce. That keeps my consumption low.

Have you looked inside your recycling bin lately? What can you do to reduce what goes into that bin?

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