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holiday recycling
27 Jan 2025 05:14 pmI'm pretty sure there is no chance of our family ever boycotting normal wrapping paper, but as time goes on I get more and more angry that wrapping paper can't be recycled as paper. (You can GET recyclable wrapping paper. So-called kraft paper is the easiest example. That's what I usually buy anyway, because I usually intend to paint or stamp it myself and then I don't get around to it, although I do like to use fancy calligraphy and address the packages directly on them, instead of on a card. But we have been using up my MIL's saved wrapping paper stash since 2019 and we still have several years' worth of it. But glossy shiny wrapping paper is coated with minerals and it won't recycle.)
This cogitation brought to you by the banana box full of balled-up Christmas wrappings that's been in the middle of the living room floor since Christmas Eve. If this wrapping paper were recyclable it could be flattened into the rest of the paper reycling and taken to the recycling collection outside the supermarket. But there is no public, free receptacle for mixed trash there.
If you have bags of trash that won't fit in your curbside wheelie bin, your only legal option is to take them yourself to the dump and pay them to take them (by volume I think). People don't always do this, of course. The most common thing is that people leave trash that isn't reyclable on top of and next to the recycling collection containers, though in the defense of the still quite stupid and infuriating people, these are usually things that someone who didn't bother to think about it might have assumed was recyclable, ie it's a huge metal thing on the metal container or a huge ceramic container on the glass one. But they leave trash there too, occasionally.
We have the smallest size of curbside bin, and we share it with our tenants on the other side of the house (two adults and their two children), and as it is it is always full, often threatening overfull, the day before collection day. It cannot accomodate extra infusions of big bags of stuff. (We could order the next larger size of bin, but this one seems to work most of the time, and they do cost more.)
I reckon we have about three or four of the regular small garbage bags worth of wrappings in the livingroom here. We could probably squeeze one in per week, but that is still questionable as it always might lead to the tenants trying to take out their trash and finding it won't fit.
Wax finally trimmed all the branches off our Christmas tree on Saturday and carried most of them outside. The trunk is still standing forlorn and denuded in the tree foot in the corner of the room. Rowan was lurking under the tree unobserved while she did it and he still has a bunch of fallen needles stuck in his floofs.
This cogitation brought to you by the banana box full of balled-up Christmas wrappings that's been in the middle of the living room floor since Christmas Eve. If this wrapping paper were recyclable it could be flattened into the rest of the paper reycling and taken to the recycling collection outside the supermarket. But there is no public, free receptacle for mixed trash there.
If you have bags of trash that won't fit in your curbside wheelie bin, your only legal option is to take them yourself to the dump and pay them to take them (by volume I think). People don't always do this, of course. The most common thing is that people leave trash that isn't reyclable on top of and next to the recycling collection containers, though in the defense of the still quite stupid and infuriating people, these are usually things that someone who didn't bother to think about it might have assumed was recyclable, ie it's a huge metal thing on the metal container or a huge ceramic container on the glass one. But they leave trash there too, occasionally.
We have the smallest size of curbside bin, and we share it with our tenants on the other side of the house (two adults and their two children), and as it is it is always full, often threatening overfull, the day before collection day. It cannot accomodate extra infusions of big bags of stuff. (We could order the next larger size of bin, but this one seems to work most of the time, and they do cost more.)
I reckon we have about three or four of the regular small garbage bags worth of wrappings in the livingroom here. We could probably squeeze one in per week, but that is still questionable as it always might lead to the tenants trying to take out their trash and finding it won't fit.
Wax finally trimmed all the branches off our Christmas tree on Saturday and carried most of them outside. The trunk is still standing forlorn and denuded in the tree foot in the corner of the room. Rowan was lurking under the tree unobserved while she did it and he still has a bunch of fallen needles stuck in his floofs.
