All glass bottles can also be recycled. Plastic containers have a number on the bottom, in the middle of a small triangle. When you collect a stack that can easily fit into a paper grocery bag, bag it and place it in the recycling box for pickup. All I do is tear off the mailing label. Every few months, when it gets nearly full, I drop off the bag at San Francisco General Hospital information desk.
Most hospitals appreciate interesting magazines.
The boring magazines go into the mixed-paper recycling bag. When it fills, I take it down to the blue box. Another grocery bag exists in a corner of one closet. This bag fills about twice a month, and out it goes. Larger cardboard boxes from deliveries, cereal boxes or pizza boxes get broken down, placed by the back door and then directly into the blue box.