When you’re out and about, whether running errands, meeting good friends for lunch, or shopping, what do you do with your recyclables? If you get bottled water with lunch, for instance, or a soft drink out of a machine, what do you with the container once you’re done drinking?

Newspapers, disposable cups, plastic flatware, and miscellaneous packaging are also tricky to dispose of when you’re on the go. A couple of cities have public recycling bins from the curb, but such bins are uncommon.

Here are some suggestions to help keep your commitment to recycling even when you’re not at home.

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Have you ever been to a classroom, Sunday school room, or even in your own child’s room and found a box of crayon “bits”? Often without wrappers, these stubs are still technically useful, but they are hard to grip and no one knows what the colors are. Thus they tend to remain unused until they are thrown away. But there are options to tossing unusable crayon stubs. They can be recycled at home or at special centers for this very purpose. Here are some ways this can be done.

1. Crazy Crayons

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By Mark Thomas Walters

Every year thousands upon thousands of tons of trash is poured into landfills. Though we are in no danger of running short on landfill space, this is expensive in terms of space, time, and energy invested, along with the sheer waste of materials that will not ever be used again. With that in mind, consider the reasons below for keeping your steel and aluminum cans out of landfill sites by recycling them instead.

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