We have an extensive city recycling program here in Toronto. We have separate pickups (and so outside containers) for recycling (paper, plastic, glass), compost, and other garbage, so our inside household waste containers need to deal with this.

We have a paper/recycling container in the kitchen and in one of the bedrooms upstairs. All trash destined for recycling has to go in one of these (or directly into the bin outside). That includes paper, pop cans, shampoo bottles, etc.) Compost is mainly generated in the kitchen so we have a container for that under the kitchen sink. The rest is garbage and that goes into the regular waste bins in most rooms.

I still struggle with finding apple cores and paper in the regular trash thanks to teenage sons, but in general we have a workable system.

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I have the exact same thing in my home office! I also keep pop boxes under the sink in the kitchen to fill up with small cleanish reclyclables in the kitchen. We have our blue boxes in the attached garage near the door, so anything big, goes straight into the bluebox.

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“Please recycle”. A phrase stated on almost all of the plastic and even paper products in the world. These manufacturers encourage us consumers, to get involved into paper recycling, as well as plastic recycling. But to recycle plastics, it will come a long way to be made. There is a certain process of waste recycling especially for these plastic products.

I have one big garbage bag in my laundry room where we collect all our recycling (papers/bottles and cans). We used to have to sort it but now we don't have to. I do need to get a little paper basket for my desk because I'm always getting up and going to my laundry room to throw something away.

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