We have a blue curbside recycling can. I think there is one other person on our street with one. We've had it for over a year, and we love it! With kids you generate so much more waste (think birthdays and Christmas), and when we got the blue can we noticed right away the big difference it made in the amount of trash that went out every week. We have had times when the blue can is overflowing, but I can't even think of the last time our brown can was even close to full :).  And talk about convenient! We used to load up the car every week or so with recyclables, and drive to one of those neighborhood drop-off places. But it wasn't very convenient, and we ended up throwing some recyclable stuff away when the box we stored it in was full. But now, we can save ALL of our recyclable stuff. My only complaint is that the only plastics they want are #1 and #2. I wish they would take it all, and maybe they will eventually.

I love the blue can.