Our garbage bin is in the last cabinet against the slanted wall in the kitchen (”the trash cabinet”). Most cleaning supplies are here too — trash bags, sponges, dishwasher pods (green box), roach-killer, stain-remover.
Our recycling is split in two
The “Tobi cabinet” Cans/bottles in Tobi’s feeding cabinet for ease of throwing cans away. This also has Tobi’s dry food and the mini-duster for when he throws food all over the place
Paper recycling between the dishwasher and cooking range. Rest of the cleaning supplies are here (rags, Mr. Clean spray, and plastic bags)
Long-term trash management (> 1 week)
Like most NYC apartments, we have trash/recycling out front.
The first 3 hatches open into trash bins, the 4th to glass/plastic recycling.
The last hatch has no bin inside, and is where we deposit cardboard boxes (either flattening them, or small boxes filled with other paper recyclables).
You can just empty our recycling cardboard boxes and bring them back to reuse, or you can switch to using the paper grocery bags for the next batch of recycling.
Trash
