Recycling #5 plastics……

For about a year now I have been saving all our #5 recyclables…waiting for our local Whole Foods to start their preserve gimme 5 program.   If you don’t have a participating Whole Foods near you, you can mail your #5 plastics directly to Preserve, but I thought I’d wait until the program came to the Whole Foods near me.  So, I waited and waited and waited, and my #5 plastics started to really pile up.  But, in the last few months, they have expanded the program and now my Whole Foods is a particpant!  Yay!

So, it was time to get all the recyclables together and bring them to the store.  We had to sort through them because somehow some #6s got in there!  I don’t think many places recycle #6s!

So, River, Quinn and I got them all out and put them into a bag and headed to Whole Foods.

By this time River was getting a bit cranky and I had forgotten to pack a snack..good thing we were at Whole Foods….

We had so many recyclables, that they wouldn’t fit into the drop off bin, so we just left them in their bag.   I’m glad to see that so many other people are recycling the #5s.  They also have a cork recycling program.  Of course, while we were at Whole Foods I bought lots of yummy stuff.  I also got River a brand new Preserve toothbrush and told her how it is made from all the recyclables we just dropped off!

Also, at Whole Foods, they have a Nickels for Non-Profits, which is a community program which features a local non-profit for three months.   Instead of getting a five cent credit for each reusable bag…they give you a wooden nickel and you place the wooden nickels into the Nickels for Non-Profit box.   I think it is a great idea and the kids loved putting the wooden nickels into the box!

I was so happy when I got home..happy that I had finally gotten rid of all those #5 plastics…that the cabinets and the garage were cleared of them…then, I opened up a cabinet that I had forgotten about….