Recycling is now part and parcel of our domestic lives.
The traditional metal dustbins that once contained all our household, waste from old nappies; to food and packaging, has become extinct.
Instead households are given wheelie bins, recycling bins, paper containers and a whole host of other receptacles to get rid our household rubbish.
And recycling can be quite a chore.
Separating all that waste into different bins, making sure you don't throw the wrong thing away; and having to try, in general, to reduce the amount of waste we dispose of is both time consuming and annoying.
But there plenty of recycling products available that can help make the task a lot easier and can even reduce the amount of waste you have to discard.
Household recycling bins Perhaps the most useful recycling product for making things easier.
Often, these recycling bins are divided into different compartments so you can separate your household waste when you throw it away.
Double and even triple compartment recycling bins are available.
Alternatively colour coded recycling bins can do the same job.
These allow you to have a different recycling bin, which has a different coloured lid, for different materials.
Can Crushers If you are like me and have a taste for fizzy drinks, the odd beer, and enjoy a tinned tuna sandwich every now and again, you will know how soon cans and tins can build up.
There are different types of can crushers available from wall-mounted to foot-operated can crushers these can, not only flatten Coke cans into flat and easy to dispose of discs but can even crush soups sized cans - saving you space and making recycling easier.
Log makers An easy way to get rid of waste paper and card is to burn it.
These log makers make that process so much more environmentally friendly and easy you can provide yourself with free heating.
Log makers compact the paper into extremely tight, slow burning fuel for log burning stoves or open fires - you'll never need to throw paper, cardboard, or even the newspaper away again.