Our Where Can I Wednesday reader question reads:
Thanks,
Amy”
We’re happy to answer this, Amy! Once you’ve recycled your heart out (or maybe even invest in a new, bigger container – with a lid!), you don’t want to sentence your old bin to landfill purgatory.
If the bin still works, I’d recommend giving it to a friend or putting it on Freecycle / a Facebook Buy Nothing giveaway movement. That’s just good karma: a lot of people want the bins and don’t have them. (And might be a little too lazy to pick one up themselves, even though we have a WHOLE list of free bins here.)
Recycle the recycling bin! You can place it curbside to recycle it IN your Single-stream recycling.
Hope your bin ends up in a happier place, Amy!
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