I recycle everything I can. Our recycling center is great. Along with the usual glass, #1 and #2 plastic, newspapers and aluminum cans we do cardboard, cereal boxes, any box that is brown inside, run-down batteries, magazines, shredded paper, plastic bags including dry-cleaning bags, basically any bag you can poke your finger through easily, cell phones, computer ink cartridges, telephone books, wrapping paper, I'm sure there's more I just can't think of it right now. I also use canvas bags for groceries and other shopping when I don't forget to take them with me! I reuse as many things as I can think of uses for them. I use empty clean glass jars to store things in the fridge, such as canned milk, or leftover soup, etc.
I sew a little so I buy fabric on the discount table at
Walmart for $1.00/yd and make tote bags to wrap gifts in. They're really easy. Sometimes if I see a cute dish towel or apron, I'll buy that to use for the wrap.
Oh, yeah, I use the cereal box liners to put the scooped cat litter into. And since I pay most of my bills online, I have them send my bills to me electronically. Opting out of junk mail delivery also helps. I can't remember the link for that, but just google junk mail opt-out and there's a government website for it.
Thanks, Southern, for starting this thread and happy recycling!
Edited to add: You can also use empty toilet paper rolls to make seed starters. Cut the roll in half and then on one end cut four evenly-spaced 1-inch cuts, then fold in together and it makes a perfect little biodegradable starter!
Susan