Recycling is finally coming to our city. We got one small blue curbside trash can and are to comingle all recyclables in it for later sorting. How do we organiza the matter inside the house without having two trash cans in kitchens and bathrooms? What makes it easiest to sort recyclables from non-recyclables without having several additional in-house trash containers? Thanks in advance.

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We have a toddler who still thinks it's fun to see what's in the trash can, so the idea of having two bins in each bathroom and in the kitchen is not a possibility. We keep a few milk crates on the back porch and when recyclables accumulate, they get taken out immediately. If the weather's bad, we might stash what's accumulating in a bag by the back door, and the next person out takes it with them. We do, however, have a tiny house, and only one floor, so it's no big deal to walk an empty shampoo bottle to the back porch bins. It's just a matter of not letting ourselves get lazy about it. I do occasionally have to fish something out of a trashcan that someone else was too lazy to put in the bins. And if we have a cookout, we provide extra buckets for beer bottles, soda cans, and any other recyclables, so our guests don't have to go out of their way to find the bins.