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Maybe this is an artifact of the southern US library experience, where the local and state governments are always looking to close libraries because That's Socialism, but we always took everything that wasn't obviously covered in semen or mold. Granted, 99% of that intake went to the Friends of the Library bookstore and then recycled whenever they needed space, but it was at least given an attempt at a new life.
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Yeah, my system takes donations for the Friends of the Library sale. Whatever doesn't sell gets sent to Better World Books or something. The one exception is like, a donated copy from a local writer of their own book. That we take and send to whatever branch they either requested or is closest to them.
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Mar 4, 2024 13:15
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In my experience Half Price Books will take all your outdated, niche-interest textbooks and such. You won't actually get value of out them, but you at least don't have to pay for them to get recycled.
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Mar 4, 2024 17:26
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I had to quit my job at the library, rear end in a top hat teenagers were driving me even more mental than I already am. One went into the bathroom and started shouting, "AAAH! I'M making GBS threads!!" Another time they bugged my boss for almost an hour asking if she knew what "ops" and "rizz" meant. My replacement ended up banning them after they wanted to fight him in the parking lot. Conspiracy Guy is back again. His 6 month ban ended last fall. He always complained that his emails weren't going through and tried to blame it on our internet, when it worked fine. He couldn't catch on that he was either putting in an invalid email address, or the possibility that the intended recipients had blocked him. The one time our net connection did screw up, he asked me if the library had "deposition insurance" because he lost the "important deposition" he was writing. No, that doesn't exist. On the weekends I would put out a box of donated books for people to freely take. One time I turned back inside and heard a thunk, and when I looked back another box of books mysteriously appeared next to it. Once a month an old lady would come in and bring back the free books she took the month before. That's... Not how it works lady, we're trying to get rid of them! She'd come in like 10 minutes til closing and dig through everything before I had to gently coerce her out the door. The other library I work 1 day a week at is having their own bored, rear end in a top hat teens problem, and they're at "call the cops on sight" status of they show up.
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Mar 4, 2024 18:38
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ExcessBLarg! posted:In my experience Half Price Books will take all your outdated, niche-interest textbooks and such. You won't actually get value of out them, but you at least don't have to pay for them to get recycled. yeah they just recycle them for you, like, there's bins and you can see them tossing 80% of the books straight in them from every donor. When I sell books to them I try not to look because it really sucks to see them tossing books that I know are really good books in good shape, but they just go by what the computer says basically that said, why would you have to pay to recycle paper and cardboard? you can just put it in the blue bin
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Mar 4, 2024 18:57
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Leperflesh posted:that said, why would you have to pay to recycle paper and cardboard? you can just put it in the blue bin
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Mar 4, 2024 21:07
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Leperflesh posted:that said, why would you have to pay to recycle paper and cardboard? you can just put it in the blue bin The glue and fabric from the binding fucks up the recycling process, even with paperbacks. I've guillotined my share of 1970s chemistry textbooks to recycle what I could and trash what I couldn't.
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Mar 4, 2024 21:39
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ah, OK. I mean we put basically anything made of card or paper into the blue bin, and a ton of what people put in their bins has tape, glue, wax, etc. on it. But I bet a lot of that winds up weeded out and trashed at the local sorting facility. Maybe they're pulling old books out too.
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Mar 5, 2024 03:17
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At this point you can safely assume that any municipal recycling program in the US is just sending everything that isn't scrap copper straight to the landfill.
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Mar 5, 2024 19:02
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Midjack posted:At this point you can safely assume that any municipal recycling program in the US is just sending everything that isn't scrap copper straight to the landfill. Nah they keep aluminum too
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I'm in the SF bay area and some of our recyclers are going well beyond the average. It's still a dire situation, for sure, but not quite at the "literally only valuable metals are recycled" stage here. https://calrecycle.ca.gov/reports/stateof/ (The state issues a new report every other year right now, so this is for calendar year 2022) CA has its CRV system for bottles & cans, and the state can use the money in vs. money out balance to infer remittance and therefore recycle rates which are not too bad, although exactly what's done with those bottles & cans after they're remitted is not as clear. We do still ship an enormous amount of recyclables to other countries - shipping to China is way way down (just half a million tons), but we send over a million tons annually to each of korea, thailand, vietnam, and taiwan, and nearly a million tons to malaysia I got no data or info on books as paper recycling tho, hence the surprise at paying to recycle what I assumed was way cleaner than your usual food-encrusted pizza boxes and waxed card milk cartons that are actually not recyclable at all
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