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Friday, April 01, 2011
Cardboard
Does anybody have any solid data about just how careful one should be about taking the tape off cardboard boxes for the recycle bin? Some of them can have quite a lot of tape on.
I figure some bored guy in the recycling plant. Any tape, dump it since it won't break down. 5 mins to get the tape off... unless you're buying too much!
ps, Ignore anon responses, they have nothing better to do.
Dave, your schedule must be wide open if you're bothering to reply to a thread like this...or even reading a blog in the first place. Even if it only takes second, those valuable seconds could be better spent toward finishing your Grand Unified Theory or curing cancer.
For a while I didn't bother separate. But if one goes at it, it only does take a couple of minutes to take off the tape and shipping plastic envelopes, so, it all helps to feel virtuous.
In the recycling process for paper/cardboard materials, the paper is reduced to pulp and extraneous materials, such as plastic tapes, are screened out. Ignofre them.
Are you REALLY struggling so badly for something; ANYTHING to post on here?
ReplyDeleteJEEEEEZ!
It's worse than those twats on Twitter and their inane babble!
I am so dang flattered that you keep hanging around, and contributing, thanks dude. I mean it too.
ReplyDeleteSomeone has to, or you'd be ignored completely:-|
ReplyDeleteGlad I can help.
I mean it too, honest!
I figure some bored guy in the recycling plant. Any tape, dump it since it won't break down.
ReplyDelete5 mins to get the tape off... unless you're buying too much!
ps, Ignore anon responses, they have nothing better to do.
Dave, your schedule must be wide open if you're bothering to reply to a thread like this...or even reading a blog in the first place. Even if it only takes second, those valuable seconds could be better spent toward finishing your Grand Unified Theory or curing cancer.
ReplyDeleteFirst rule of the internets,Dont feed the trolls.
ReplyDeleteScott
Thanks, Dave.
ReplyDeleteFor a while I didn't bother separate. But if one goes at it, it only does take a couple of minutes to take off the tape and shipping plastic envelopes, so, it all helps to feel virtuous.
In the recycling process for paper/cardboard materials, the paper is reduced to pulp and extraneous materials, such as plastic tapes, are screened out. Ignofre them.
ReplyDeleteI thought the cardboard would be shredded finely, and the tape shredded with it? Granted, I don't know how paper is pulped.
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