Recycling Bins?

**shellyrhds** · 03-04-2009, 02:08 PM

My husband and I are both full time college students living on a very limited income. The city we live in does offer recycling, but you have to take it in to the recycle drop stations. That's not a problem since one is located once a week in the parking lot of the grocery store we frequent. The problem that I'm having with recycling is that we live in a small apartment that has very little extra space and no where to put the items to be recycled until the recycle trailer is brought in at the end of the week. I have tried and tried to think of ideas that would be practical, economical and usable for my small space. I'm thinking of maybe vertical type storage of some kind, and entertained the notion of old fashioned milk crates, but I also have a back injury, so repeated lifting of crates filled with recyclables to deposit new things would be problematic.. any ideas out there? What do you use to hold your recyclable items if you don't have curbside pickup and have to take them in yourself?

**Spirit Deer** · 03-04-2009, 04:03 PM

You could stack plastic totes and cut a hole in the end of each near the top so you can just tuck your recycle stuff in as needed. If you're hauling it out once a week, small totes should work.

I think there are stacked recycle bins available for sale, but I don't know how prices compare to using regular totes.

**shellyrhds** · 03-06-2009, 05:34 PM

thanks for the tip! I don't know why I didn't think of that.. so simple, yet effective!

**Momto2Boyz** · 03-07-2009, 08:56 AM

When we lived in our tiny apartment, I took The rubbermaid vertical wrapping paper holders and used two of those stacked on each other. They were tall and skinny and fit in between my cabinet and the wall in a corner of my kitchen. I did exactly what spirit deer suggested and cut a hole in the side wall of each to toss stuff in. Worked pretty well!