Give them bigger bins, and they will use them. The first day of single stream recycling in sections of Coeur d'Alene on Monday proved that. "We had a huge participation rate, a fantastic response," said Steve Roberge, district manager of Waste Management of Idaho. The company retrieved recyclables in the first half of the city where larger 64-gallon recycling bins have already been delivered to residences. The last of the 14,000 bins will be delivered to homes by the end of the week. That part of town will have its recycling bins picked up Oct. 25. Roberge said they're already seeing double the recycling participation rate/Tom Hasslinger & Maureen Dolan, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here. (SR photo)

Question: Psst. Don't tell Christa, but I find using the new recycling bins much easier than the little blue boxes of the past. How about you? Do you plan to recycle more with the single-stream bins?