Just think what a difference it would make if all schools had a recycling program where students or parents could drop off just the easily recyclable stuff.

They won't let us put our phone books into the paper recycling bins here. I don't understand that at all.

Telephone books are separated from other paper grades at the MRF. Because of the glue binding, they are a bit trickier to recycle. Most are turned into cellulose insulation.

Here in the sticks, we can take them to the one and only recycle center and the put them in specific bins. We don't have home recycling here, but we do have a center, though not enough people are conscious enough to use it, sadly.

Just before I moved from my last home in florida, we were told we could start putting out phone books in the paper bin, not sure why maybe they started using a type of glue that wasn't a problem, but I am not sure about that.

Actually I think that is a great idea. Here banks and other businesses allow the schools to come take their paper waste, and the kids get the money for the school from their taking it to the recyle center.

But I like that idea. I see parents bring their kids to school and sit there for quite a while as the bring them up to the front door. Would be cool if they had large bins where they could do that, though there might be other reasons why that might not be practical.

They do that here already in Ny...you get a summons for anything that isn't recycle. Ex: if you left a piece of styrofoam in a cardboard box, you get a summons