Recycling

This is a public service announcement of sorts. :) 
I'm still brainstorming ways to reduce the amount of plastics and food packaging that comes into our home, but in the meantime, I am still trying my best to recycle.  I wanted to share a few things I've learned lately.

I like to look up the rules on recycling in my town from time to time to make sure I'm putting the correct things in our bin.  It's a good thing I do!  Because they change what they accept sometimes, and I don't always get the memo.  They were accepting glass, for example, but not now.  I encourage you to double check what your pick-up accepts.  If you live in my town, here is what we can put in our bin:
Cardboard
Paper (all sorts other than waxed)
ALL plastics #1-7 (this is new, as it used to just be #s 1 and 2)
Aluminum and tin cans (soda bottles and canned food cans)

Luckily my particular recycling service hand sorts (yes, I gave them a call), so the glass bottles I was still including in my bin didn't harm any machinery.  However, it is most helpful to actually recycle the things they can use... let's be helpful recyclers!

Glass can be recycled in Peachtree City at the McIntosh Trail location and the Coweta County Recycling Center on Andrew Bailey Rd in Newnan.  If you find some more options, let me know!

Also, a friend recently told me that you can take ALL plastic bags (not just GROCERY bags) to Kroger and other stores (check out your Target, Walmart, or Publix).  I hadn't been using the plastic bag recycling much since I took my own reusable bags into the store.  When I forgot my bags, I'd gain just enough bags for us to use for home necessities like poopy pants and guinea pig poop removal.  Now that I'm using Click List (a dream come true for mamas with any number of smallish children), I have way too many bags and have started recycling them.  I'm so excited to have learned that I can also include CLEAN: ziplock, drycleaning bags, bread bags, produce bags, newspaper bags, paper-towel wrap, bubble wrap, air pillows (that are in all those amazon orders, ya know?), and more.  What you can't include: pre-washed salad mix bags, frozen food bags, candy bar wrappers, chip bags, compostable bags.  Click here for more info on what can or can't be recycled.

Alkaline batteries can be recycled at Batteries and Bulbs in Peachtree City for $1.29 per pound.  Lithium batteries for $.99.  There are other locations in Atlanta/Decatur that may be free (just more of a drive for me).  It is legal to put batteries in the trash in Georgia... doesn't make it a good thing though.

In Spring, if you'd like to buy eggs from my kids for $4 a dozen, you can also recycle egg cartons with us ;)

I've already had a meeting with my kids to let them know of our recycling changes and where they need to put the different materials to recycle... now to round up my husband for a chat so I can stop pulling yogurt containers out of the trash. :)