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Monday, April 25th, 2005 10:23 am
Sunnyvale has an "approved method" of recycling junk mail. It is this.

1. Put all the junk mail in a sturdy paper bag such as you might get at a grocery store.
2. Put the bag in your trash container and put the container out at curbside.
3. Their hand-sorters will go through all the trash at the dump and sort out your junk mail for recycling.

Some questions come immediately to mind. Do they WANT the junk mail flying like confetti all over the interior of the garbage truck as soon as the trash container is upended? Just how well-sealed is my kitchen garbage bag? How much do these sorters get paid??

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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 10:19 pm (UTC)
That last is true for me too. When I was cleaning up this past weekend, I used the shredder so much that it started smelling bad. (I had quite the backlog of stoopid things like "Use these credit card checks before May 15 and get n.nn rate".)