Recycle News

   Exciting News!
   It maybe that next spring, instead of recycling telephone books we will be collecting magazines and catalogues!!! Now that's good news!!

   Our telephone books, for many years, have been recyclable and recycled, whether via curbside pick-up via our blue bins or at school collection points. Magazines, however, have not been recycled but rather have been a "work in progress" (a plan yet to be worked out by the city).

   So our magazines and catalogues come weekly, monthly, even daily, it seems, and they pile up in our homes: stacks of good reading - "here, and there, and over there, too." Finally these stacks become so top heavy they slide from one neat order into becoming an annoyance! And then, of course, in exasperation, we throw them away in large numbers, having to deal with their shear weight and cumbersomeness!

   So this is good news! To think we may have a fruitful reason to dispose of these "glossy subscriptions" that will yield monetary returns to our neighborhood groups, much the same way the telephone book recycle campaign returned noticeable dollar amounts to our schools and homeowners organizations! (And the yield from magazines and catalogue recycling maybe greater that that from the phone books!)

   But----- hmmmmmmmm - we keep a few phone books around all year, and use them, and then recycle them--! But, magazines-will we have to keep them all year in order to compact the Springtime collection; I mean store them somewhere some how all year long until collection time so each school location participating can benefit from total tonnage collected? If so, we'll still be contending with slippery magazines in piles!

   Well, the Homeowners groups are due to gather September 24^th, to talk 'Recycle.' We will speak in detail to this issue of magazines recycling. (Will give you a follow-up report!)

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