Today I learned that instead of recycling our empty plastic bottles and glass jars, we can clean them out and donate them to our local food bank. The food bank gets donations of bulk items — 20lb bags of flour, rice, large containers of laundry detergent, and so on — which they don’t distribute as-is. Instead, they repackage them in empty plastic bottles and glass jars so that they can distribute them to more people. So instead of dropping containers in the recycle bin, we can wash them...
