Recycling

The public services in Barcelona are impressively efficient. Trains are consistently on time; Town employees come through the streets cleaning sidewalks with brooms and water on a weekly basis;  Workers are constantly emptying public trashcans throughout the city and the garbage truck does their thing daily.

There are big garbage bins on virtually every corner and that is where everyone dumps their trash. The bins have a cool lever at the bottom that you can use your foot to open which is handy (pun intended) when you are getting rid of bags of garbage! :)

Recycling, however, is a separate effort. On every other corner or so, there are three recycling bins set up where people deposit their recycling. The bins are color coded: blue for paper, green for glass and yellow for plastic. The local hardware store sells corresponding buckets for you to collect your recycling at home so of course we had to buy them!

We have our colored buckets set up on our back patio and have to take the trip a couple of blocks away to the recycling bins pretty regularly. It is a part of city life that we have embraced!

These are the recycling bins that we frequent!

These are the buckets we use to collect recycling at home. I wish the green one was bigger because we drink lots of wine so it fills up fast!

This is a recycling bin for glass in the town on Vic. I noticed on our last adventure outside of Barcelona that bins come in different forms. The bins in Vic seems to hold the contents underground. Not sure how they access it though, but I found it interesting!