Big Blue Bins

The city of Calgary is finally offering a functional recycling service. We got our blue bin yesterday and boy was I excited. We can finally recycle our plastics. The drop of recycling locations in Calgary have no bins for plastics unless they are milk containers.

BUT... please don't forget that reduce and reuse come BEFORE recycle. Recycling your plastics in Calgary is not the greenest thing you can do. When plastics are recycled, they are more or less put on big crates and shipped all the way to China to be made into who knows what. (All of those cheap little MADE IN CHINA toys, perhaps?)

However, for the sake of being optimistic, I will stick with saying that it has been exciting to see the streets lined with blue bins soon to be filled with things that would otherwise have gone to the dump.