Creatrope

This is a small thing, but I’ve found it helpful. I’ve encouraged you to toss a lot of stuff, but if you can avoid it ending up in a landfill, it’s definitely worth some extra effort.

My kitchen is neatly sorted out with recycling and non-recycling wastebaskets, but it only occurred to me recently that this would be a timesaver to have in every room.

I thought about making a ‘dual wastebasket’ or buying one of those ‘multiple basket’ things, but this seemed so much simpler. The combined unit is nice, so if you have the space, you might consider it in the kitchen, at least:

I put two wastebaskets in all the areas that used to have a single wastebasket. Recycling goes into one and non-recycling in the other. They are not necessarily emptied at the same time, and it’s amazing how much more ends up in recycling when you don’t have to walk to another room.

It’s much more sanitary/pleasant/safer than trying to divide it out again as you are throwing it away. The third wastebasket for glass (assuming your service asks you to separate it) may or may not be worthwhile. I don’t think i t is.

They don’t necessarily need to match, but it doesn’t hurt.

Here’s Amazon’s selection of wastebaskets.