Recycling Questions 101

I have questions regarding recycling household trash. First of all, we live in the country and do not have trash pickup, but there is a recycling center in a town about 25 miles from here. I have no idea what all they take.

So far, this is what we are doing...Avoiding buying as much meat as I can with the styrofoam trays. Those I do get, I use for my paint palllets for as long as they hold up. Switched DH off bottles to cans. Can crush them to save space until we get them to the recycling center. Quit using paper towels and napkins, except for when I fry food and use them to lay the food on. All food scraps get fed to either the dog or the chickens or goes into my newly built compost bin. Yeah! Plastic food jars gets recycled to the shed to use for organizing little stuff. My plastic creamer containers are used for storing small craft items. Glass mayonnaise jars are reused for whatever is possible in the kitchen or for batches of paint I mix. That leaves me with plastic wrap from store bought items, tin foil, tin cans, boxes that some food comes in and paper/mail. I use some tin cans for craft projects and I suppose I could use the rest to pot up seedlings.

So...since we have a burn barrel, I can burn the boxes. Guess we can save the tin foil along with the other junk that definitely needs to go to the landfill. But we have only been there twice in 6 years. What do I do with the plastic wrap? I think I heard it was a carcenagenic when burnt. The excess paper that comes with our mail, that I don't have to keep, can it be torn up and put in the compost bin? Not the plastic windows, just the paper. What do I do with the few color catologes and flyers we get?