The Green Project: Recycle Bin
It’s been a while since I posted anything on my Green Project. However, the Green Project is still on and it has become more of a lifestyle change than a project per se. We have been doing a lot of changes and adjustments to our current ways of living. One of the things that we had completely ignored in our household was a recycling bin. We were vociferously dumping all of our trash in a common trash basket irrespective of what kind of trash it was. I think it’s pretty much the same in most of the southern states where being green is looked upon as something very gay. I’m not kidding. People make fun of you if you’re green. Hahaha. For instance, our apartment complex does not have any regulations on garbage disposal and people can pretty much stash away anything they feel like in the community trash bin. I have seen furniture, beds, mattresses, exercise equipment among other things. Though there is a bunch of recycle bins that are like half a mile away from my apartment, I’m not sure if they really recycle stuff from those bins. We didn’t have much choice than to use those bins though!
Even though we didn’t take it to the level of extremity that I mentioned above (furniture? c’mon!), we thought we could do better. Eventually, late last year, we got ourselves a recycle bin. We looked around many stores for something specific for recycling and the ones we found weren’t any different from regular trash bins. We wanted something that we could use to dump stuff like bottles, paper, plastic etc.; anything that can be recycled. But I wanted something bigger so that we did not have to make half a mile trips to the community recycle bins everyday. Also, I wanted something that could be transported easily. A regular trash can is a b1tch to carry around. Something more horizontal was what I was looking for. So, I thought why not use something like a laundry basket? They are pretty sturdy and are extremely easy to haul down a flight of stairs right? I ended up getting a medium-sized Rubbermaid laundry basket that looks something like this.
It did not cost me more than $5. Compare that to the regular trash bins of identical size at $20. It’s highly transportable and quite easy to clean too. Try it out, it’s been working out really well for us.