Make taking out the trash a little easier with King County’s One Less Bag challenge. To help reduce the amount of waste headed to Cedar Hills Regional Landfill, King County is asking residents to reduce their garbage by one less bag per month.

By taking the online pledge, you can get a free recycling kit and find ways to recycle more, reuse more and waste less.

More than half of what ends up in our landfill is easily recycled. By taking the challenge, you can help save valuable resources from going to waste and save money on your garbage bill by shrinking your garbage cart size.

Here are some tips to help you reduce by one bag of garbage a month: – Discover one new thing that you didn’t know you could recycle and start recycling it.

– Put food scraps and food-soiled paper in your yard waste cart. Begin with your veggie and fruit trimmings or those leftovers that got lost in the back of the fridge. Then move onto meats, fish and poultry scraps and bones, plate scrapings, egg shells and coffee grounds.

– Remember all junk mail, envelopes, catalogs, magazines, office and craft paper of all shapes, sizes and colors can go in your recycling cart. Food-soiled paper such as dirty paper napkins, paper towels, and pizza delivery boxes go in your yard waste cart. See King County’s Residential Quick Guide to Recycling to learn which types of paper go in the recycling cart and which go in the yard waste cart, and reduce junk mailat its source.

– Choose one disposable item that you typically use at home and switch to a reusable alternative. For example, paper coffee cups, cleaning wipes, plastic storage containers, and shopping bags can all be substituted with a reusable alternative.

– Black Diamond residents that take the One Less Bag Pledge on King County’s website, will be sent a free kit that includes a spatula for hard-to-clean recyclable containers, a recycling guide with fridge magnet, and 10 compostable bags for food scrap and food-soiled paper recycling.