Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Recycling Phonebooks
Message-ID: <448@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 89 23:41:00 GMT
References: <89Mar15.154034est.19517@me.utoronto.ca> <224@ecicrl.UUCP>
Distribution: tor
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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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.

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Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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