I've come to the realization that I should be clearing out quite a lot of older books off my shelves. While I could just haul the lot off to a thrift store and be done with it, I'm sitting here looking at the books and thinking "how are they going to sell these?" I don't want to just shift the problem onto someone else, and certainly not a charitable organization I already think has way too much work. Of course, stuffing them into a landfill isn't much better. Books like "Teach Yourself Macintosh in 24 Hours: Covers System 8!", "Adobe Photoshop 2.5 - Classroom in a Book", and "Quick Guide To CorelDraw 5!", will not fly off the shelves, not even off the shelves of thrift stores. Does anyone know of a paper recycler which will handle the plastic-like paper of computer books? I'm looking at a trunk full of these books and I'd like to be able to take them somewhere where the contents or the paper will do some good. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/
I live in the county, and we can just burn stuff so long as its under control. As a matter of fact, today, I spent 4 hours or so outside burning yard waste, and a huge box of shredded paper. Fun Fun. I'm sure if you rip the covers off, any old recycling place will take them. If you donate them to come charitable org, you'll get a writeoff maybe, and they'll get at least a little money. Better than nothing. On 4/1/07, Leo Mauler <webgiant@yahoo.com> wrote:
I've come to the realization that I should be clearing out quite a lot of older books off my shelves. While I could just haul the lot off to a thrift store and be done with it, I'm sitting here looking at the books and thinking "how are they going to sell these?" I don't want to just shift the problem onto someone else, and certainly not a charitable organization I already think has way too much work. Of course, stuffing them into a landfill isn't much better.
Books like "Teach Yourself Macintosh in 24 Hours: Covers System 8!", "Adobe Photoshop 2.5 - Classroom in a Book", and "Quick Guide To CorelDraw 5!", will not fly off the shelves, not even off the shelves of thrift stores.
Does anyone know of a paper recycler which will handle the plastic-like paper of computer books? I'm looking at a trunk full of these books and I'd like to be able to take them somewhere where the contents or the paper will do some good.
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On Sunday 01 April 2007 08:01:28 pm Billy Crook wrote:
I live in the county, and we can just burn stuff so long as its under control.
Um, dude? This is so not cool. Yes, burning natural wastes such as cleared brush is a natural method of disposal. Burning manufactured wastes releases really nasty things into the atmosphere, and while the earth's atmosphere may seem infinite to you, to the rest of us residents it's a finite resource, and your dumping toxins such as metallic inks into it is not appreciated. Pollution from Los Angeles has reduced the visibility in the Rocky Mountain National Park by 50% in the last 20 years. What you do does matter.
I do my part in trying not to print anything I don't have to. That box was two years of everything I ever printed or received in the mail. And WOW was it cool to watch. Yeah, burning it puts crap in our atmosphere, but throwing it away pollutes the ground water, and recycling, well, I won't touch on that. Plus my paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum. My ink is all natural dyed cyclofructose low energy corn-based biodegradable filtered color inks in recycled cartridge heads, and thus, actually helps the environment. I use the ashes in my soy garden to help fertilize the soil without man made chemical additives that might poison the earth. For every sheet I burn, the environment gets incrementally healthier. Do you drive a car? I forgive you for polluting. On 4/1/07, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins@tarcanfel.org> wrote:
On Sunday 01 April 2007 08:01:28 pm Billy Crook wrote:
I live in the county, and we can just burn stuff so long as its under control.
Um, dude? This is so not cool. Yes, burning natural wastes such as cleared brush is a natural method of disposal.
Burning manufactured wastes releases really nasty things into the atmosphere, and while the earth's atmosphere may seem infinite to you, to the rest of us residents it's a finite resource, and your dumping toxins such as metallic inks into it is not appreciated.
Pollution from Los Angeles has reduced the visibility in the Rocky Mountain National Park by 50% in the last 20 years. What you do does matter. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
If you go down to the Mid-Continent library administrative offices on 24 hwy in Independence you can donate them to the library and they will give you a receipt to use as a charitable donation on your taxes.
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Leo Mauler Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:42 PM To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: OT: Old Computer Book Recycling?
I've come to the realization that I should be clearing out quite a lot of older books off my shelves. While I could just haul the lot off to a thrift store and be done with it, I'm sitting here looking at the books and thinking "how are they going to sell these?" I don't want to just shift the problem onto someone else, and certainly not a charitable organization I already think has way too much work. Of course, stuffing them into a landfill isn't much better.
Books like "Teach Yourself Macintosh in 24 Hours: Covers System 8!", "Adobe Photoshop 2.5 - Classroom in a Book", and "Quick Guide To CorelDraw 5!", will not fly off the shelves, not even off the shelves of thrift stores.
Does anyone know of a paper recycler which will handle the plastic-like paper of computer books? I'm looking at a trunk full of these books and I'd like to be able to take them somewhere where the contents or the paper will do some good.
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On Monday 02 April 2007 08:08:26 am Phil Thayer wrote:
If you go down to the Mid-Continent library administrative offices on 24 hwy in Independence you can donate them to the library and they will give you a receipt to use as a charitable donation on your taxes.
Pretty much any library will accept donations. Most are simply landfilled, but some are sold at annual book sales or on carts in the library. It costs too much for the library to process a donated book to make it worth taking them into the collection; purchased books come with a lot of the necessary pre-processing already done.
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