Sheets/Slabs/Toploaders - Can Any Be Recycled?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

LOL!

This is a good thread.

In Toronto, we can put the plastic top-loaders, plastic soft sleeves and plastic binder pages in the blue recycling bins.

However, you can't put hard plastic in the blue bins (PSA, SGC, Beckett cracked slabs, heavy screwdowns, etc.) I actually have a lot of these sitting in my storage and I just don't want to throw them in the trash. I just don't know what to do with them! Any ideas?

Are you selling or giving them away? As long as the slab are just opened and not chunks missing I would like them. I like to put custom cards with custom flips in them.

We used to have a city recycling system. Garbage in one container and recyclebales in the other. They picked them up desperately. Them they mixed them together and shipped it all to a landfill in North Dakota. LOL

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Are you selling or giving them away? As long as the slab are just opened and not chunks missing I would like them. I like to put custom cards with custom flips in them.

We used to have a city recycling system. Garbage in one container and recyclebales in the other. They picked them up desperately. Them they mixed them together and shipped it all to a landfill in North Dakota. LOL

South Dakota - Home of the Desperate Garbage Men

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

South Dakota - Home of the Desperate Garbage Men

I am camping out in the middle of nowhere so my phone auto corrected separately.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I am camping out in the middle of nowhere so my phone auto corrected separately.

Breaking News from the South Dakota Bureau of Tourism

South Dakota in the Middle of Nowhere - Desperate Campers Welcome

[Throttlesteer]

The $ in recycling isn't what goes in the bin, it's in the marketing of the products using the recycled material. Millennials and Gen Z throw their wallets at recycled stuff.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Breaking News from the South Dakota Bureau of Tourism

South Dakota in the Middle of Nowhere - Desperate Campers Welcome

Been there, and you're not far from the truth.

It's actually pretty nice if you're camping, ND is also, and has way fewer people.

[toppcat]

My slabs get cut first these days unless they are SGC. I don't have all that many graded crack outs anymore as I tend to buy raw now.


I'm going t start saving the Card Savers and softer items. I've read plastic that doesn't bend is not usually good in the recycling stream. It just struck me that if I have this much plastic, there is 100,000 more times of it out there at least. It's a lot of plastic waste.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by toppcat

My slabs get cut first these days unless they are SGC. I don't have all that many graded crack outs anymore as I tend to buy raw now.


I'm going t start saving the Card Savers and softer items. I've read plastic that doesn't bend is not usually good in the recycling stream. It just struck me that if I have this much plastic, there is 100,000 more times of it out there at least. It's a lot of plastic waste.

Yeah, those straws really add up.

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Are you selling or giving them away? As long as the slab are just opened and not chunks missing I would like them. I like to put custom cards with custom flips in them.

We used to have a city recycling system. Garbage in one container and recyclebales in the other. They picked them up desperately. Them they mixed them together and shipped it all to a landfill in North Dakota. LOL

Most of them have a small chunk missing on one corner (I used plier to break it off). I do maybe have a few nice ones though. Tell you what, I can ship them all to you for free. All you have to do is pay for the postage. PM me if you are interested.

And that's horrible that they mixed recyclables with garbage and shipped them all to a landfill! Bunch of b*stards!