Hello, recycle. Oh man here I have a very important question to ask you and you better know the answer. What's wrong with this picture, what do you mean? You don't know it's so simple. Even Arnold could see. What's wrong. Look again, do you see recyclables out here a little blue ready for pickup?

No, of course you don't because a lot of you aren't using my friend here little blue and you know who you are and so do I, and, if you're, not using little blue. That means you're, throwing things in here that don't belong in here.

I can think of only two reasons why you aren't using your little blue recycling bin one your muscles aren't pumped up enough to carry to bend to the curb or maybe recycle man gives you the benefit of the doubt and thinks you just need a little help to know how to do the right thing. So, let's go inside and have a little talk.

Okay, it's simple once again, this is little blue, the recycling bin, and these are things that should go into little blue okay. Let's talk details, cans, first, beverage, cans, tin cans. Don't worry about the labels but rinse them out. First, clean, aluminum, foil and foil traits can go to it now. Glass, clear, pretty colors doesn't matter jars same thing. Any color labels can stay but exercise some muscle and take the lid off first and then give them a good rinse before you put them in the bin.

Now, let's talk plastics, but first look closer at your TV screen, see those three curved arrows: that's the recycling logo yeah now look even closer inside the elves is a number now look at the bottom of your plastic containers. Any plastic with the logo and the number from 1 to 7 can go in the bin, not so fast a few rules, even though they may have a recycling logo on them. No styrofoam.

That means no styrofoam, takeout containers, coolers or anything made out of this stuff, also, no bottles that had toxic stuff in them like pesticides and motor oil and don't try to sneak in any plastic car parts, your old garden, hose or lawn furniture, and none of this stuff either bubble, wrap packing peanuts and plastic, wrap here's the kind of plastics to recycle milk juice, water and soda bottles, margarine containers, yogurt, plastic cups, dairy containers, medicine bottles and things that make your clothes smell fresh and don't forget shampoo and conditioner. You can't tell but recycle.

Oh man recycles a lot of these types of bottles. Please make sure the plastics are empty and rinsed out too last, but certainly not least, paper products like newspapers, magazines, catalogs and phone books and don't forget junk mail recycler, man, hates junk mail.

Before we go, don't just throw things and little blue willy-nilly with lightweight things like paper products and first, preferably in a paper bag, then lay other things that are heavier on top because once outside things that come out of the bin become trash and mess up our city and I know you don't want that to happen now.

Recycler man has more important. Information, for you are used to listening. Recyclables will be collected on the same day as the trash in your big blues. So when you take big blues out to the curb put little blue out, there, too just make sure it's at least 5 feet away from big blues. Both little blue and big blue need to be out to the curb by 6 a.m. on your collection day, or you can put them out the evening before after 7 p.m. if recycle man didn't help. You enough then pay attention to this.

You can call 2, 9, 7, 2, 8, 3 3 and talked to the friendly folks at utilities, customer service about any recycling or trash question. A lot of information is also available on the city's website. Wwl KC gov.

Remember you'll never know when recycle man is coming to your neighborhood to see if your little blue is out and full of couples or in other words, I'll be back.