Recycle That Stuff

Reduce, reuse, recycle. Reduce and reuse are kind of up to you.

Take 20 minutes and watch The Story of Stuff.

(Unfortunately, Monona just lost its Monona NeighborNation web site that helped people reuse stuff. They need someone who knows and is willing to help with PHP/MySQL.) Fortunately, there's still Craigslist.

UPDATE: Thanks to Scott warner for pointing out that you can also try http://www.freecycle.org/ . The Madison-area page is at: http://www.freecycle.org/group/United%20States/Wisconsin/Madison

In Monona, Green Valley Disposal handles the city's waste and recycling collection.

If you're like me you can never remember what plastic can be reycyled. Read on. (What? You cna reycyle aluminum foil?)

From the Green Valley web site:

We Make Recycling Easier!
• Aluminum
Cans and foil - rinse clean NO LICENSE PLATES
• Glass
Clear, green, brown - bottles and jars, rinse clean NO LIDS, NO WINDOW GLASS
• Plastic
All plastic containers marked #1 through #7; 5 gallon pails, wire handles removed; rinse clean; drain automotive containers well - NO PLASTIC BAGS OR STYROFOAM
• Cardboard and Mixed Paper
Corrugated cardboard - flattened; newspapers, paper-board, phone books, post-it notes, typing paper, white letterhead, writing paper, beverage cases, adding machine tape, carbonless forms, cereal boxes, colored paper, computer paper, copy paper, envelopes, windowed envelopes, fax paper, file folders, magazines, manila folders. NO NAPKINS, PAPER TOWELS, TISSUE, PAPER PLATES OR WAXED MATERIAL