Car Trash Recycling Confession

As I was writing my post yesterday, I realized that I don't recycle my trash from the car.

We travel a lot in our car and the trash can pile up quickly.  I'd love to tell you that my car is immaculant, but it is no where near that.  You ever seen the gags on TV where trash falls out of the car when the door is opened?  Well, that used to be me.  It's not that bad anymore, but still bad enough.  Whenever people comment on it, I just tell them, well you can tell that I don't litter.

When I do clean out the car, all the trash goes into one bag, and that goes directly into the trash dumpster.

Due to my Diet Coke addiction, there are many cans that make it into the dumpster from the car--but I can make myself feel better about that because there are no less than 3 people who regularly comb the dumpsters for recycling in my urban neighborhood.

One guy has quite the system.  Three large trash bins.  One for cans, one for bottles (which he smashes into the bin to conserve space--truly is quite rude at 6:30 am), and one for plastic, all on a cart that he pushes through the bumpy alley.  Actually he may have 4 bins on it--one for miscellaneous items--I watch him from time to time when he wakes me up.

I've thought a couple times about putting a trash bin in the garage, but don't want to invite bugs and varmits.  But, if I put one down there that is just for recycling, that might work. It's not like we keep food trash in the car--mostly paper and cans.

I'll report to you when I have done this, and also when I have remedied the bathroom trash issues.