Currently around 60% of things you throw away can be recycled.

Most local councils or your local authority provide a road-side collection service.

These tend to collect:

• Paper
• Cans and Tins
• Glass
• Garden waste

and if you are lucky enough...

• Cardboard
• Plastic

Most large supermarkets in the UK provide a selection of recycle bins in the car parks. These also provide a place to take most of the things above sometimes including:

• Plastic bags
• Clothes and Textiles
• Shoes

After the supermarkets we move on to refuse sites, tips or garbage dumps which tend to have a greater choice of materials they will accept. Including:

• Batteries
• Metal
• Paint
• Oil
• Wood
• Refrigerators and Freezers
• Building material
• Asbestos
• Low energy light bulbs

  
  

There are also specialist recycle centres concentrate on one thing. With a search on your favourite search engine with your local details you should be able to find a place to recycle:

• Games, CDs and DVDs
  
• Computers
• Furniture
• Vehicles
• TVs
• Printer Cartridges
• Electrical equipment

There are also websites that give out money for old rubbish that may be thrown out left in a drawer somewhere. These websites recycle:

• Mobile Phones
• PDA's
• Smart Phones

Providing a household has a large enough garden, further waste can be prevented from travelling landfill. By using a composting bin, it is possible to make garden soil from recycling:

• Kitchen waste (fruit, vegetables, tea bags, etc.)

  
  

So to recap this is a list of things that can be recycled making full use of modern day technology.

Most of the things disposed of in an average household bin bag can be recycled or reused and by doing so the bin bag fills up much slower.