2007-11-06 03:23:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
The site listed below was very useful! It appears that the recycling process is fraught with pros and cons. From the site:
Question: Are there other facets of magazine publishing that can make it harder to recycle magazines?
Answer: Several specific types of adhesives can be problematic because they tend to form very small particles (called “stickies”) that adhere to production equipment and are difficult to remove through the screening and other physical processing methods employed in pulp mills. Polyvinyl acetate (PVA), acrylic polymers, polystyrene polymers (such as styrene butadiene rubber), and hot melt adhesives (thermoplastics) are of particular concern. Water-soluble substitutes that make use of starch, dextrins, gums, and cellulose (polycel) can often accomplish the same functions and offer suitable performance characteristics, while not interfering with downstream paper fiber recovery operations.
But it goes on to say the following:
"Old magazines and similar materials that are currently recycled are used to make newsprint, tissue, paper/box board, and even writing and printing paper. Old magazines (and catalogs) are useful to producers of recycled-content newsprint, as they help to deink (remove ink) from recovered newspaper. They also contain fiber and clay coatings that can impart improved brightness and a smoother texture to certain components of multi-ply box and liner board."
I recycle our magazines. As long as the student-run operation takes them, I'll keep bringing them in.
2007-11-06 04:46:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get a scrap book, and save the most outlandish styles, the throw the rest away. Or you could get a tupperware box, bury some of the magazines and dig them up in 20 years. Really, doctors offices don't want them either. Give them to the neighborhood kids to cut up, or send them to a recycle station.
2016-05-28 03:05:08 · answer #2 · answered by vonda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If magazines were either to be recycled or be donated to a local library, that wouldn't be such a waste.
2007-11-06 03:31:00 · answer #3 · answered by slimdude142 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Magazine paper has a high concentration of clay and the super calendering required to make the pages glossy crush the fibers making them useless for recycling.
2007-11-06 03:38:58 · answer #4 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If they are really old and in good shape, they are likely worth some bucks a collectibles!
2007-11-06 05:19:28 · answer #5 · answered by groingo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah
collect all your old magazines, newspapers,etc. and recycle them
2007-11-06 03:29:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yea .. recycle!! or cut out pictures and make something lol and when you noticed you messed it up ... throw it out lol
2007-11-06 06:14:13 · answer #7 · answered by La UNiCA DeSii 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they should be recycled.
2007-11-06 07:35:40 · answer #8 · answered by booboo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You paid for it, do as you wish with it.
2007-11-06 04:01:44 · answer #9 · answered by enicolls25 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋