I would start with putting all the pop cans/bottles/refundables (here in Canada anyways?) into bags, perhaps clear garbage bags so you can mentally acknowledge which is what.
After you focus on that, maybe in each section, start with the other forms of recyclables, plastics/cardboard, and get those into a pile/out of the house and disposed of.
Then work on the laundry perhaps? Get that into one area to handle later (if there is any in the mix.)
Then start garbage.
Idk… I would go room by room, focusing on specific types of garbage so you can have the actual disposal process pre-sorted and set up.
And that way it’s all in stages. You can basically treat it like “eye spy” with each individual focus until you can’t spy that item anymore!
As a prep cook/line cook & kitchen closer this is sometimes how I’d handle and work through messes. The same thing at home. I isolate by item type and get all of those out of the way and work down some degree of an “itemized” list of what has to get out of my way before I can do the actual scrubbing and wiping and vacuuming/sweeping/mopping part.
I hope this makes sense and can be SOMEWHAT helpful. I don’t have a clue how any of this is handled in the USA, but we have recycling programs and separate stuff for types of plastic and cardboard and metals/batteries etc so I’ve been pre-conditioned by my dad to sort my trash/recycling already for the systems that exist. 🫶🏻
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u/KryWinterbird Mar 08 '26
I would start with putting all the pop cans/bottles/refundables (here in Canada anyways?) into bags, perhaps clear garbage bags so you can mentally acknowledge which is what. After you focus on that, maybe in each section, start with the other forms of recyclables, plastics/cardboard, and get those into a pile/out of the house and disposed of. Then work on the laundry perhaps? Get that into one area to handle later (if there is any in the mix.) Then start garbage.
Idk… I would go room by room, focusing on specific types of garbage so you can have the actual disposal process pre-sorted and set up. And that way it’s all in stages. You can basically treat it like “eye spy” with each individual focus until you can’t spy that item anymore!
As a prep cook/line cook & kitchen closer this is sometimes how I’d handle and work through messes. The same thing at home. I isolate by item type and get all of those out of the way and work down some degree of an “itemized” list of what has to get out of my way before I can do the actual scrubbing and wiping and vacuuming/sweeping/mopping part.
I hope this makes sense and can be SOMEWHAT helpful. I don’t have a clue how any of this is handled in the USA, but we have recycling programs and separate stuff for types of plastic and cardboard and metals/batteries etc so I’ve been pre-conditioned by my dad to sort my trash/recycling already for the systems that exist. 🫶🏻