I highly recommend Superhero help for all your common household chores. Recycling becomes RECYCLING! when a Superhero is involved.

I love these bags.
I love carrying tons of groceries in just a few sturdy totes.
I love not having wispy plastic bags floating around my kitchen.
I love the idea of reusing bags vs. simply recycling them.
I love always having totes on hand for trips to the library, Target, or even quick runs around the grocery store (no cart needed!).
I love the price tag of these bags in particular.

If you’re going to the market to buy some juice
You’ve got to bring your own bags and you learn to reduce your waste
And if your brother or your sister’s got some cool clothes
You could try them on before you buy some more of those
Reuse, we’ve got to learn to reuse
And if the first two R’s don’t work out
And if you’ve got to make some trash
Don’t throw it out
Recycle, we’ve got to learn to recycle

[3 R’s by Jack Johnson, Curious George soundtrack]

There’s a fine line between hoarding and recycling, and I’m relieved to report that we ended up on the recycling side after finally making a trip to one of Lincoln’s many recycling bin locations. We’ve recycled pop cans for a long time, but that’s only because our neighbor faithfully collects and returns them for cash. In vain I believed I need a beautiful recycling system, one that fit in with my kitchen decor (LOL). Finally Jeremy pushed us to recycle and off we went, with Jeremy often rescuing items I had thoughtlessly tossed in the trash.

By the time we had created Mount Trash (in the pic above), I was amazed by how much of our trash we could recycle. Newspapers, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, even plastic pill bottles, milk cartons, mixed paper, so on and so forth. We still need to purchase more black bins from Target, but now we’re well on our way in this little venture of the 3 R’s.

**Note to parents: The Jack Johnson Curious George album quoted above is fantastic listening for entire families. It’s the only CD checked out from the library that I really wished I owned. And soon, thanks to Amazon.com, I will own it. : )