I was looking up how to recycle old magazines on the West Hartford town site. I found the reference and it’s surprisingly easy, especially for this the land of Counterproductive Trash Laws. However, there was this note in the directions:
Clean, dry newspaper, (and inserts), magazines and catalogs, junk mail, computer paper, stationery, bills, shredded paper, envelopes with windows. NOTE: Must be less than 2 months old, or goes out in trash.
What? Do magazines have a half-life of two months? Someone please enlighten me because I am quite confused.
In related news, I am on a mission to step-up the environmental concern efforts. We are taking all of our plastic bags and tossing them into one of those recycling containers at the grocery store and never looking back. I want to get reuseable grocery bags or, if necessary, just use paper bags. I will also be using a tote bag or similar for my lunch, except on the days that I have to bring more milk in for my breakfast, at which point I’ll use a large paper bag from Whole Foods or something.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Yay, the reusable bags are the best! I had a set of canvas bags that I used for years until the germ-phobic baggers at Stop and Shop gave me such a hard time about what must be growing on them because they were no longer natural canvas color. Whatever.
I have been buying the green fabric bags that Stop and Shop sells at the front of the store for $0.99 - they are AWESOME. They hold so much and they’re easy to carry. Plus the green color hides the mold and other icky things that the baggers are all afraid of.