[OKC] From Slate's Green Lantern: Recycling Brainteasers

[Miles, Karen]

Recycling Brainteasers


Staples, packing tape, pizza boxes, and books.


By Nina Shen Rastogi
Posted Tuesday, March 23, 2010, at 9:37 AM ET 

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The Lantern has addressed some recycling stumpers
<http://www.slate.com/id/2241073/>  in the past, but the questions keep
coming. Here are answers to five more that arrived in the mailbox in
recent weeks. 

1.      Do I have to remove the staples when I recycle my magazines?
What about envelopes and pasta boxes that have plastic windows in them?

2.      When I get something in the mail wrapped with packing tape, can
I recycle the paper and the box, or will the tape mess things up?

3.      Can I recycle paper with Wite-Out on it? 

4.      How bad is it, really, to throw the occasional greasy pizza box
in with your recycling? 

5.      What should I do with old books-can they be recycled? 

 

 

Nina Shen Rastogi is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, N.Y.

For the answers to these five questions, go to URL: 
http://www.slate.com/id/2248043/

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