Recycling Habits

Recycling Habits: Learn how to start, maintain, or improve your recycling habit so that you - or your fellow community members - recycle more and recycle better.

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Step 1: Find our there to recycle in town, with image of man talking on 70s style phone
Step 1: Time to Start Your Recycling Habit!

♻️ RECYCLING BASICS: Time to Start your Recycling Habit! ♻️

Sure, you've seen recycling containers when you're out and about, and maybe you've tossed your single-use bottle in one, but when it comes to...
What is One Thing You Can Easily Recycle? with image of green recycling bin with empty green glass bottles
Step 2: What is One Thing You Can Easily Recycle?

♻️ RECYCLING BASICS: When it comes to setting up your Recycling Habit - start small! ♻️

You've looked up where to send your recyclables in your town or city - either through a curbside recycling...
Create a Dedicated Recycling Space, with smiling child holding a full blue recycling bin
Step 3: Create a Dedicated Recycling Space

♻️ Your Recycling Habit: MAKE IT EASY - CREATE a DEDICATED RECYCLING SPACE ♻️

Now that you know WHERE to bring your recycling (curbside, a recycling center, or transfer station) and you know WHAT you...
Before You Toss It, Ask, "Can it be RECYCLED?" with image of 4 brown paper bags with recyclables sticking out the top
Before You Toss It, Ask, "Can it be RECYCLED?"

♻️ How to make it a RECYCLING HABIT ♻️

You've found where to send your recyclables, picked ONE recyclable to focus on, and set up your simple recycling location in your home. You've covered the 3...
Place a Reminder Near Your Trash Can, with image of trash can with blue bag and sticky note reading "recycle" on nearby cabinet
Place a Reminder Near Your Trash Can

✅ ✅ ✅ YOUR RECYCLING HABIT: Reminders are your Friend!

Your habit right now may not include recycling - or it may be to recycle some things, but not everything. Changing your habits to include...
Reward yourself for consistently recycling, with image of a white recycling bin with green chasing arrows sign
Reward Yourself for Consistently Recycling

♻️ YOUR RECYCLING HABIT: SOME POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT ♻️

If you started your habit in week one, you are now a month and a half into your new (or improved) recycling habit! WOW!! By now, you've probably...
If you have curbside trash pick-up, ask about recycling pick-up with image of trash and recycling cans around a tree
Have Curbside Trash Pickup? Ask About Recycling Pick-up!

♻️ YOUR RECYCLING HABIT: CURBSIDE PICK-UP FOR THE WIN! ♻️

Do you have curbside trash pick-up? Well, you may also have curbside recycling pick-up!

Perhaps your town offers single stream recycling where...
Always Drive through the Recycling Lane at the Transfer Station, with image of a sign reading "Recycling Collection Center"
Always Drive through the Recycling Lane

♻️ YOUR RECYCLING HABIT: ALWAYS TAKE THE RECYCLING WAY ♻️

If you bring your trash to a transfer station, you probably also have recycling at that same location. For some transfer stations or recycling...
Add a Second Type of Recycling to your Home, with image of man holding a can and woman holding a glass jar
Add a Second Type of Recycling to your Home

♻️ YOUR RECYCLING HABIT: TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL BY RECYCLING MORE ♻️

 
For the past 8 (yes, EIGHT) weeks, you've been practicing your recycling habit. Remember way back in week 2 when we asked you to...
What is Being Tossed that Could Be RECYCLED? with image of large blue recycling bin
What is Being Tossed that Could Be RECYCLED?
♻️ YOUR RECYCLING HABIT: STOP before you throw and CHECK to see if it's recyclable! ♻️
 
From aluminum foil to pet food cans, much of what we toss is actually recyclable! Sometimes, it just takes...

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