Recycle! Helping To Save My Little Corner of the World

5 Great Reasons to Recycle

Conserves our natural resources
Saves energy.
Saves clean air and clean water
Saves landfill space.
Can save money and create jobs.

Most folks say that if it were easier to recycle they'd do it in a heartbeat. I guess we've been lucky in that sense. Our city offers a curb-side, blue barrel, recycling program. It's just as easy as putting out your garbage, except that on recycling pick-up day, you put out your blue barrel. There are some restrictions on what goes in the blue barrel, but overall, it's usually more full than our regular garbage.

Don't have a recycling program in your city? Check out the locations of any recycling centers, maybe one is on your way to work or on one of your routes you take when you run errands. You can keep a separate box or container to keep your recyclables in and just put it in your trunk and dump it in the bin on the way. It's a breeze to drop this stuff off! Plus you get that 'feel good' feeling for doing your part.

We end up with a lot of things that won't fit in our recycling barrel, even if we break it down, so we hang on to it and make a trip to our city's recycling center when

we have a full load.

That's the back of my minivan, and that's my husband doing all the unloading!

I'm not going to run off a bunch of recycling facts, we all know how important it is! I'll just leave you with this thought: Be responsible! Do your best to do your part :)