| Do you know how to recycle your garbage? It is | | | | may not have a place to take everything but |
| a process that is amazingly simple, yet so many | | | | every little bit helps the greater cause. |
| people continue to throw every bit of garbage | | | | Once you have the appropriate containers, your |
| into the trash bin without separating it into | | | | next step is to perform the actual sorting. Do not |
| appropriate containers. Each bag of trash that | | | | wait until five minutes before the garbage pick-up |
| could have been recycled is another pound or | | | | is scheduled to begin sorting. The best advice is to |
| more of garbage that is causing landfills to | | | | do it as you go. |
| overflow. | | | | When you are finished with that milk jug, rinse it |
| There is only a certain amount of garbage that | | | | out and place it in the plastics bin. The same thing |
| our nation will be able to handle. You can learn to | | | | goes for that newspaper, aluminum cans and |
| do your part to reduce and reuse recyclables. | | | | plastic bottles. If you want to keep your home |
| Most cities and towns now offer a recycling | | | | smelling nice, then make sure you rinse out your |
| program as a way to keep recyclables out of the | | | | containers before placing them in the recycling |
| landfills. But there are still towns that do not have | | | | bins. |
| recycling programs. | | | | The knowledge on how to recycle is out there |
| If you want to recycle and your town does not | | | | for you to gain. Follow the three steps and you |
| offer a program, then you can always start a | | | | will find yourself using more recycled materials and |
| movement to have one started. If there is one, | | | | keeping more materials out of our landfills. One |
| then you will need to contact the sanitation | | | | person can make a difference by setting a good |
| department to find out the pick-up day and get | | | | example at work, school and home. |
| the right containers for the right items. | | | | Teach your family how to separate their garbage |
| Step two is the actual sorting of garbage into the | | | | and before long it will become second nature to |
| appropriate recycling containers. Recyclables can | | | | them. Each member can then influence one other |
| be broken up into different categories. | | | | person. If this keeps up there will be more and |
| There are paper products, waste products, such | | | | more families doing their part to save the |
| as food scraps and yard trimmings, aluminum | | | | environment. |
| cans, glass containers and plastic containers. You | | | | |