Used magazines

[bigtiller]

We have to pay by the bag for trash and recycle. So I crush my al cans and bring to scrapper once a year. Same with "tin" cans (soup, veggie). Paper we burn.

Magazines I try to pass along but most get burned. I guess I could dig a pit and bury them. Would that be more ecological? I only have 11 acres and some of it is wet and some steep or woods/underbrush so I don't have a lot of place to bury it.

I suggested burying our garbage (that which is not recyclable) but she nixed that idea.

That gave me an idea. Maybe we could cut a 4"~ hole in the middle of a magazine, place it in the garden and plant a tomato in the hole. The magazine would act as a weed barrier/mulch for the tomato plant.

 

[Buggs67]

That gave me an idea. Maybe we could cut a 4"~ hole in the middle of a magazine, place it in the garden and plant a tomato in the hole. The magazine would act as a weed barrier/mulch for the tomato plant.

I did that with cardboard last year. One downside is it keeps the water from going thru so I had to poke holes in the cardboard.

 

[Buggs67]

Oregon has a 10 cent bounty on cans/bottles . . . it can make sense to bring them back.

Yeah, no deposit here. I had a disabled friend, out of work who picked up cans in NJ from the side of the road (no deposits) and returned the across the line in NY; .05 deposit. He got exercise, cleaned up the back road and made money.

When I was a kid we'd pick up coke bottles and return them for the $.02/.03 deposit. A candy bar was $.06 back then.

 

[the old grind]

Newspapers are the old standard for one-piece mulch. Can't put 'em down too thick. Soy inks are benign. Newsprint breaks down quickly, esp compared to glossy paper.

Old mags can be bound & bundles stacked on edge for ballistic testing. They do burn better if shredded a bit. Metal detector will help find bits to dig out before burning.

 

[Alien]

Trouble with burying rubbish is that contaminents can make their way into the aquifers. I use bore water so it is the last thing I would want to happen.