I don't have Island Living so can't comment on that gameplay, but with Joy you could also explore the candlemaking and fabrication gameplay if you haven't before. Those both depend on recycling. I like to enable the Reduce and Recycle lot challenge with my fabrication sims, so they get lots of extra trash and compost showing up, often in their inventories, that can be used for lots of extra bits and pieces (recycled ingredients for fabrication and candlemaking) if you don't mind the extra step of going through the trash all the time. Joy probably won't mind :)
