eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) (03/15/89)
Now that the new books are out, anyone know if there is a recycling depot for old phonebooks? Its too much paper to just throw away. -- Doug Eastick eastick@me.UTORONTO.BITNET UUCP: ...!utai!me!eastick eastick@me.toronto.edu
soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) (03/17/89)
In article <89Mar15.154034est.19517@me.utoronto.ca>, eastick@me.UUCP writes: > Now that the new books are out, anyone know if there is a recycling > depot for old phonebooks? Its too much paper to just throw away. > In Mississauga they are trying an experimental program to recycle books, they will be shipped to India and recycled there. Unfortunately no-one in Canada seems interested. Seems that there is already more recycled newsprint on the market than there is demand for, so the recycling companies are having to stockpile newspapers. There's absolutely no good reason for this as most of the big newspapers still use large quantities of "new" papaer. -- Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment UUCP: uunet!mnetor!ontmoh!ontenv!soley | Contents of this message are OR: soley@ontenv.UUCP | my ideas, not the Ministry's "Stay smart, go cool, be happy, it's the only way to get what you want"
clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) (03/20/89)
If you slit the spine of your phone book off, you can simply put it in
your blue box. It is, after all, more or less newsprint. The glue would
poison the batch, so you gotta get it off somehow.
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(or lsuc!gate!eci386!clewis or lsuc!clewis)soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) (03/25/89)
In article <224@ecicrl.UUCP>, clewis@ecicrl.UUCP writes: > If you slit the spine of your phone book off, you can simply put it in > your blue box. It is, after all, more or less newsprint. The glue would > poison the batch, so you gotta get it off somehow. I wouldn't do it (except in that area of Mississauga were Bell is organizing the trial). Why? The municpalities help to offset the costs of curbside recycling by selling the stuff to contractors who are paranoid about contamination of what they are recycling, they inspect each load before it gets unloaded at the plant and if they think it's too contaminated it goes to the dump and they don't pay for the load. So even though glueless phone book pages are perfectly recyclable they may LOOK unrecyclable to the recycling contractor resulting in an entire load of paper going into the landfill site instead of being recycled. -- Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment UUCP: uunet!mnetor!ontmoh!ontenv!soley | Contents of this message are OR: soley@ontenv.UUCP | my ideas, not the Ministry's "Stay smart, go cool, be happy, it's the only way to get what you want"
soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) (04/01/89)
In article <448@ontenv.UUCP>, soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes: > In article <224@ecicrl.UUCP>, clewis@ecicrl.UUCP writes: > > If you slit the spine of your phone book off, you can simply put it in > > your blue box. It is, after all, more or less newsprint. The glue would > > poison the batch, so you gotta get it off somehow. > > I wouldn't do it (except in that area of Mississauga were Bell is > organizing the trial). Why? [...] even though glueless phone book pages > are perfectly recyclable they may LOOK unrecyclable to the recycling > contractor resulting in an entire load of paper going into the landfill site > instead of being recycled. I've got some further information about this issue. According to CKCO TV reporter Steve Hopper (11:30 Newscast, March 27th) a petition has been raised in Guelph protesting the fact that they cannot recycle their phone books. BRAVO! It was pointed out that telephone books are made from paper that is different enough from newsprint that they cannot be recycled together. This supports my advice against putting them in blue boxes. The horse has already left the barn this year for most of us. The time to start thinking about next year is upon us! Start a petition or write letters urging that next year everyone in Ontario can participate in phone book recycling, not just a small area in Mississagua send them to Bell Canada, to the Ministries of Environment (Federal and Provincial) and most importantly to your local council, after all they're the ones who run our recycling programs, heck why not cc: the CRTC too. -- Norman Soley - The Communications Guy - Ontario Ministry of the Environment Until the next maps go out: moegate!soley@ontenv.UUCP if you roll your own: uunet!{attcan!ncrcan|mnetor!ontmoh}!ontenv!moegate!soley