Where we live, the City of Auburn, Alabama, has a curbside reclycling program. When the garbage trucks come by, another truck comes by on the same day and collects recycling. It's pretty awesome that the cost is built-in to our sanitation services bill which comes on our water invoice.

The city accepts aluminum, cardboard, newspaper, glass (clear and brown), plastic (#1 and #2 BOTTLES only), and steel (tin) cans at the curb. In addition to that, they have a drop-off center off of Donahue Drive that accepts the aforementioned as well as: green glass, magazines/mixed paper, telephone books, rechargeable and non-rechargeable transistor batteries. For more information about the City of Auburn's garbage and recycling collection, go here. The Environmental Services Department handles all this for the city of Auburn, and does an outstanding job.

As cool as this is, the city does not provide, nor do they even sell, containers for residents to collect their recycling. Some people use clear trash bags, while others use empty egg crates. Some have boxes and some have plastic containers. I've looked into a few sold online, some that are fairly cheap if sold in bulk.

What I'd like from you, dear readers, is ideas.

Please upload your pictures, videos, or links of residential recycling bins, that can be kept in the home and set out on the curbside on pick-up day. What I'd like to do is get these for my clients and get my fellow realtors to do the same, so that when driving through neighborhoods, not only will you see the standard garbage carts, but standard recycling containers. It's not necessarilly a problem, but it would sure look a whole lot neater.

Please upload or post pictures, video, or links of your best ideas for residential recycling bins!

Here's some good ones I found off of recyclingbin.com.