Used magazines

[bigtiller]

What do you do with your old magazines?

If the cover doesn't have my address glued on it, I would take them to any waiting room I have to wait in and leave it there.

But with this Covid virus, we usually are asked to wait in the car for a phone call to come in. So the waiting room is devoid of people and all the reading material has been removed.

So now we have a stack of magazines and no one to give them to. I don't want to throw them out but.....

Got any ideas?

 

[Peter 315]

Wood stove?....

 

[Wagtail]

You could always cut the address 'sticker' out/off...

However you're correct, waiting-room reading material has been removed due to communal handling concerns.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Never mind people who never thought anything of licking their fingers to turn the pages! :licking: I have never done that even once in my life.

 

[the old grind]

I'd be happy to trade back-issues of GunTests, 1911s & Ammo, &/or American Hunter for Hodgdon reloading annuals I don't have. Shooting Times and Petersen's RifleShooter need space to be stored/stacked.

My favorite read in waiting rooms will always be Time.

 

[WM75Guy]

The county has recycle bins at the dump stations. That is where ours go at end of life.

 

[the old grind]

Neighbor in the pick-up biz says only 'enameled' (glossy) paper is as unwanted as non-rinsed milk jugs (with caps on them and bloating) by their recycle processors. (asking them to sort your garbage, they say)

Cousin in the printing biz taught me the term 'enameled' and says it shouldn't be burned due to toxic smoke. Both say old mags should go to the landfill.

 

[hslogger]

On the west coast, recycling of most paper is easily done. News print, magazines, telephone books. The trash collection services provide different bins for items that CAN be recycled. Same thing a the landfill. But then you have those who don't give a hoot and just dump their crap with out trying to separate the metal, papers, glass, plastics. I mean who cares about trash anyway. There's enough litter and garbage that makes its' way into the streets and bushes, creeks, streams, river and ocean.

 

[tallyho8]

I can't understand why people are so afraid to have their name and address shared on magazine covers. My name, address and phone number have been in the phone book for everyone to see for over 50 years and never been a problem. Is our society that paranoid now that we have to keep everything in our lives secret?

 

[Industrial Toys]

I tear my name and address off anything that goes for recylcing. Identity theft is supposedly wide spread if you believe the people that are trying to sell you protection.