Millions of Americans dutifully fill their recycling bins ... Both plastic and glass are fairly easy on the environment to produce, but are often very tricky, costly, and intense to recycle.

But sometimes, the difference between what you should and shouldn't recycle ... plastic, the rules can be extra confusing -- there's a lot more to it than tossing a water bottle in the recycling ...

Each week a garbage truck pulls up and workers collect the contents of your blue bin. Your mixed recycling contains lots of plastics—shampoo bottles, yogurt cups, milk jugs and more—but how ...