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Old books

  • 31-08-2019 6:54pm
    #1
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭


    Can you put old books like obsolete school books and such into the green bin? Or what are you meant to do with them.


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  • #2
    Macha
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 6,376 Mod ✭✭✭✭Macha


    Yes they're paper so I guess that would work.

    The other portion is offering them to a library or putting them on adverts.ie but it sounds like there wouldn't be much interest.


  • #3
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,601 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    The pages are definitely recyclable. (Or even into compost if you were willing to tear them up; but that would take ages!!)

    A problem can be the covers: Might be plastic, plastic-coated, or at least, a heavy card or cardboard.

    So pull out the bunch of paper pages from the middle, and throw in green bin.

    Make a separate decision about the covers: if card, recycle with cardboard. Otherwise, for landfill.


  • #4
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Cheers. Passed on as many as we can. It seems school books have become very wasteful. Almost none get reused. Seems a bit of industry scam if you ask me.


  • #5
    Misty Moon
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭Misty Moon


    If you have the patience for it, you could also try freecycle or whatever equivalents are used in Ireland these days. I got rid of the last of books that no-one else would take there because an art student was looking for some for a project. At least those books had another life before being thrown out.


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