We’ve all gotten pretty good at recycling the basics; bottles, cans, newspapers, but there is a lot more that we can keep out of the landfill. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 34 percent of our waste is currently being composted or recycled but the goal is to double that amount.

Who knew you could recycle bras, Ziploc bags, light bulbs, Crayola markers, broken bikes… !? Some families go through a lot of tennis balls – recycle them! Go to a salon or groom your dog? Send those hair clippings to be reused as mats to help contain oil spills. And then, let’s put a recycling bin in the bathroom for used shampoo bottles, aerosol cans, toilet paper rolls. Here is a list of even more unexpected things to recycle.

Surely we can go beyond the basics and keep one more item outta the dump!