You can recycle your trash by taking it out into your backyard and creating your very own compost pile.  You can build your own compost bin with 2 X 2's or 2 X 4's and chicken wire.  Customize your size to fit behind a shed or by the corner of your home.  Better yet, call your local Waste Management and ask them how much are the recylceable compost bins - generally just around $20.  Start by using a pail inside that you can put your "Green" materials in such as coffee grinds, fruit and veggie s****s, eggshells as well as plant clippings.  You can "heap" layers about 4 to 6 inches deep of the green materials - alternating with the "Brown" materials such as newspaper, dry leaves, straw,  chopped wood, and untreated sawdust.   Now you need to let both of these materials just sit and they will naturally create nitrogen and certain brown materials will create carbon.   Add water directly into the compost - dampen only do not saturate.  This creates heat which the compost requires in order to break down.  About once a week turn the pile with a shovel or fork - just about when the compost reaches 140' F.  Then allow the compost to sit- flipping, stirring and turning every week until the pile no longer radiates heat and turns dry and crumbly -this takes about 3 months.  The compost "dirt" will then be a very dark brown - you can start to shovel out the compost and turn into your vegetable or flower garden which is a natural fertilizer.  Sounds like a lot, but it's an easy process which just takes a weekly commitment!  Sit back and watch your tomatos, peppers and herb garden jump into full bloom!