A classic strategy that could yield big dividends

Key points

• Wednesday is garbage day where I live, and because of how recycling works here, we have four separate bins.
• One for solid waste, one for "containers" - bottles and cans, one for compost (grass clippings basically), and one for paper.
• These last two are the largest, but even so, somehow the one for paper is never big enough.
• We get everything delivered now, and everything delivered comes in a box.
• Sure enough today, no matter how much I folded and stuffed, a lot of the cardboard ended up next to the paper bin when there was no more room in it...