My recyclables have really piled up in the last few months. Time to take it all in for cash.

This week i organized my bottles and cans for deposit. I aquired 1000 bottles and cans and put 100 to a bag. That's $50 for the lot once i bring it in for deposits.

If you live in a "deposit" state, that's a good deal.

I've been watching our paid-for recycling for the past year and it's only when James comes over that we ever bring soda into the house. So I am fairly content with that. Other than that, everything we recycle goes out every week with the weekly pick-up. Maybe we should wean James off of soda.

Watching this again and yes it seems we go maybe 1-2 2-liter bottles of soda a month at the most. Bob drinks diet soda occasionally, and James drinks canned soda when he visits. So we have very few if any deposit-bearing items. Most of the time Bob drinks water that we then add Mio flavoring into. I drink water most of the time, with a glass of wine in the evening. So we don't have much deposit-related items in the house.

We have deposit in this state and it works great for those who drink beer or pop. I like you Lisa do not drink either so I have nothing to bring back to the store.

I use my recycle bin each week with mostly card board in it.

Tessboss -

I've wanted for a while to weigh our recyclables and our actual trash to see how they compare. I never quite get to it. Hopefully I will sometime soon.

Our pickup is one week cardboard/paper, and the opposite week bottles / plastic. Each week we have at least two full bins of the item in question. So we generate quite a lot of recyclables. We also compost, so there's not much trash left. I've canceled as much mail as I can, but it's still surprising how much paper we end up with between Amazon packing material and random envelopes.

I will put it on my list again to try to bring the scale down and figure it out.