I bag the small plastic items I recycle, and separate them at the recycling center by category. I bag the aluminum cans and separately bag tin cans. I put computer paper in a box to take to the recycling area, but shred a lot of paper items, and as far as I know on one it town accepts shredded computer paper. But, I also recycle larger items. Milk jugs, half gallon juice bottles, other plastic containers, and occasionally large tin containers. I used to hang the small plastic bags on hooks in my garage, and just pile the larger items on crates on the side of my garage. Until I had a problem last summer, and destroyed the crate, broke a plastic bottle of motor oil within the crate, and had to clean the area, get new crates, and reorganize the area. I decided to buy a couple of inexpensive laundry bags, and put the larger, mostly plastic items in the bags, and hang them from hooks or nails on the garage wall. This has created a much neater space where I keep most of my recyclables. I have another area in the garage where I keep glass and cardboard. I do not let those items collect too much, as that area gets to disorganized if I do.
Sometimes I take items to recycle as often as once a week. Usually it is every 2-3 weeks before I recycle, and it can be as long as a month. It just depend upon what collects, and how much collects.
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