A few years back, my husband and I decided to start recycling plastic. We always did recycle aluminum cans, after all, you can make some decent money recycling them! I don't know why we never thought to recycle plastic before. I guess we figured we didn't throw out that much plastic. After just a few weeks, we had quite the mound of recyclables piled up in our basement. We were shocked at the amount of items we kept out of the landfill that year. Since then, we have had 4 children, and the mounds of plastic, paper, ect that we recycle is huge! We live out in the country where we are responsible to bring our own recyclables into the recylce center. This gets to be such a pain because we end up with loads of stuff in our basement. My family works as a team to make the job easier on everyone.
With Rubbermaids new Hidden Recylcer, our job has become even easier. Instead of having a paper bag filling with "junk" under the sink, we now have a stylish, heavy duty bag to collect our recyclables in. No more paper bag denigrating on its way down to the basement. The Hidden Recycler is a 5 gallon bag which holds up to 36, 12 ounce cans. Milk jugs fit nicely as well. My favorite thing about the Hidden Recycler is the leak-proof liner. No more drips down the basement stairs either. The bag is machine washable too. And in the spirit of recycling, the Hidden Recycler itself is made from recyclable material!
If you would like your own Rubbermaid Hidden Recycler, they can be found at Rubbermaid.com or at select Meijer stores. The suggested retail price of the Hidden Recycler is $15.99. Or, you can enter right here to win one of your own!
Rubbermaid provided me with a hidden recycler at no charge. All comments are my own.
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ReplyDeleteI make it easy by cutting them all a little slack. We all have times when we just don't want to deal with it. Sometimes I need to give them some slack and I'll deal with it myself. I'm the one who feels most strongly about recycling.
ReplyDeleteI like this look of th ebag style. It seems much more easier to manage.
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It's just my kid and I and we try to repurpose as much as we can. We reuse water bottles for crafts. Paper is made into scraps and cans, well we do crush them. I found a craft for plastic bottles so we'll be working those soon.
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getting the kids involved helps so much with recycling. it makes it fun for them & helps parents out.
ReplyDeleteWe keep recycling buckets right out in the open so we are reminded to do all we can! We recycle way more that we put out in trash between the recycling and compost!!
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What a great concept! We also do the "paper bag under the sink" routine. It can be such a mess!
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