Most of us probably recycle at least some containers/packaging from our kitchen or main living area. To make it easier to recycle throughout the whole house, why not place one recycle bin on each level of your home?

If you have an upper level and/or a basement in your home, keep one recycle collection container on each of these levels for shampoo bottles, medicine containers, magazines, the cardboard tubes from rolls of toilet paper or paper towels, and other miscellaneous non-food recycling. Then, you can periodically empty those recycle collection containers into your main recycle containers (usually in a kitchen or garage). And if necessary, you can then sort in the main recycle containers.  Because most of us don't prepare or keep food anywhere other than the kitchen, these additional recycling locations will be "clean" and not susceptible to pests as they will be for non-food recycling.

Think about doing this... just one container on each floor. In a closet, under a sink, in a corner to give everyone a central location to recycle on each floor of your home. You can get the 13-gallon blue trash cans that have the recycle symbol on them at Home Depot for less than $15 although any container will do.

Remember, there are tons of things we can recycle daily that aren't food related. So recycle on all levels of your home... today!