I kind of don't believe in the efficacy of most recycling practices, but my family does it and so I also do. We put an emphasis on recycling aluminum and glass, which we know will be able to recycle over and over without losing their quality as materials like plastic does. And if possible, we will buy things in aluminum or glass containers instead of plastic, and use reusable water bottles, etc.

Other things I do are try to use energy/resource efficient modes on my laundry machine and dryer. We also do that thing where we save cans and glass bottles to get a dime in return for each!

It's not always possible to be eco-friendly in every situation, realistically, and we are very far from being the ideal "zero waste household", not to mention that our impact will always be less of that like a large corporation with entire massive warehouses full of plastic cups and stuff, but when possible my family does Try.

We also are the only house on the block who requested to have 2 blue (recycling) dumpster bins and 1 brown (general trash) one and we usually fill all 3 before collection day