The World's Shortest Comprehensive Recycling Guide

November 29, 2004 1:56 AM

The World's Shortest Comprehensive Recycling Guide.
posted by nthdegx (17 comments total)

"This is world's shortest comprehensive USA/Canada recycling guide."
Whilst this is actually grammatically factual - why is there a need to include the word "world" when referring to North America. The next thing you know people will be talking about baseball having a "world series" and how daft would that be when it's basically the USA, Japan and one tribe in the Amazon?
Cass
posted by Cancergiggles at 3:42 AM on November 29, 2004

Hey, it doesn't list what colour of bin to put different items in! :-)
posted by shepd at 3:50 AM on November 29, 2004

I like the note at the bottom of the page that says, "Remember: Unless you buy recycled products, you are not recycling." Right on.
posted by Nick Jordan at 4:37 AM on November 29, 2004

Thanks, this will actually come in handy.
posted by Sir Mildred Pierce at 5:10 AM on November 29, 2004

Recycled products?

You mean like this?
posted by Chunder at 5:12 AM on November 29, 2004

Now shorter and even easier to ignore!
posted by Plinko at 6:11 AM on November 29, 2004

"Bad to recycle: Paper, water, dirt, mold or other contamination."

No wonder no one picks up my buckets of rain water from the curb.
posted by tpl1212 at 6:35 AM on November 29, 2004

When you recycle, you're working for Tony Soprano. There is virtually no market for recycled goods. For the past 30 years, however, recycling has been a gold mine for the same organized crime groups who control all other phases of trash collection and trash hauling. Ask your local municipality who's buying this garbage? In my town, it has been discovered that "recycled" newspapers were piling up in a warehouse, where they would sit for about five years, before being quietly dumped in a landfill.
posted by Faze at 6:40 AM on November 29, 2004

Coffee that's been through an animal? Wow.
posted by nthdegx at 6:41 AM on November 29, 2004

All this stuff eventually ends up in the fires of Hell, right?
So if you're going to Heaven, there's no problem.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:32 AM on November 29, 2004

The Mafia's worse nightmare.
posted by mic stand at 9:57 AM on November 29, 2004

Aha. Something I can actually use to get the people in my house to start recycling. "It's confusing..." can no longer be an excuse for the roommate. This is going on the wall above the trashcan and recycling bin.
posted by Nenna at 10:15 AM on November 29, 2004

Can I throw magazines with staples into the paper bin?
posted by knave at 10:38 AM on November 29, 2004

No, not with white paper, according to point 5 here.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:34 PM on November 29, 2004

Assuming, of course, that one chooses to recycle.

*snicker*
posted by davidmsc at 7:17 PM on November 29, 2004

Faze, that's really interesting, if true. Any links? That sounds reasonably FPP-worthy.
posted by painquale at 8:36 PM on November 29, 2004

painquale, Faze:
BusinessWeek did an article a couple of years ago on the Italian Eco-Mafia.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:05 AM on November 30, 2004