My brainy and beautiful partner has just come up with a plan to introduce pre-recycling in our unit complex. We're going to ask our complex manager if we can put out some boxes or trays for people to deposit any reading material instead of tossing it in the bin or recycling. The plan is the stuff stays there and people can paw through it and grab magazines and books they want before everything goes to the recycling, that we'll take care of. That way people will hopefully broaden their reading and do a bit of recycling at the same time. She's so clever, and awesome, no wonder I'm marrying her.
3 comments:
That is brilliant.
Um ... are you going to recycle ALL your reading matter?
Only the stuff we wouldn't keep anyway... so anyone hoping to get their hands on my Playboy collection is out of luck :P
I have to say, it's not that brilliant an idea- I only thought of it because someone dumped some stuff in our recycling bin (for once it wasn't some disgusting person's used pads and paddlepop wrappers)- it was a whole bunch of vogue, russh and J-mag (or whatever the Triple J magazine is called) magazines... all in a box, so we took it out to check that it wasn't full of regular rubbish... I don't buy any of those magazines, but at $7.50 a pop I figure that precycling copies is better than having only one person read them and then toss them. Especially since Gam and I are the only residents apart from our managers to have a recycling bin, as people kept dumping the wrong stuff (e.g. used nappies!) in them when they occupied the bin room, meaning that most of peoples' reading material is currently going into the regular rubbish.
Plus I've always felt bad about tossing my Big Issue mags... I don't particularly want to collect them but I wind up keeping them because I feel it's a waste to read then throw away... I'd much rather leave them for someone else to pick up and read.
Yeah, so no Playboys but hopefully plenty of other stuff if people take the time to participate!
It's such a great idea. This needs to be promoted!
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