What do you do with magazines.....?

Question

What do you do with magazines after you are done reading them? Do you throw them in the trash, recycle bin or give them to someone else to read?

I always put them in the recycle bin since my city gives us a recycle cart.

Answer 1

I'm a small farmer on a permaculture farm.  I only subscribe to agriculture related magazines, like Countryside & Small Stock Journal, and Small Farmers Journal.

I save every single one of them.  The information in Small Farmer's Journal about draft horse drawn farm impliments was good in the 1800's and it's still good today, and very hard to come by.

The information in the magazines I recieve virtually never goes out of date.  They are kept for future referance.  We also do not have cable TV, and virtually do not watch TV.  It's nice on long winter nights, to pick up magazines from the 1960's and start re-reading them....so much good information.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 2

i shread them up and use the shreaded paper as litter / bedding for my pet ferrets. it is also suitable for rabbits and rats etc.

in the uk a great deal of the paper collected in recycling goes into landfill.

Answer 3

I'm a packrat....I save EVERYTHING but be glad to SHARE if someone wants any...

Answer 4

Sometimes I'll drop the scenic ones off at a convalescent center down the street.  Or, leave a stack in my doctor's waiting room.

Answer 5

I have actually stopped most of my subscriptions. I read magazines at the library and share.  Those I do still receive or purchase on impulse....I pass along to others.

Answer 6

Depends on the magazine really - I'll normally recycle them or after I've read pass it onto a mate - and these are with the like NW or Who magazines, but if it's Vogue, Shop til you drop or something along those lines then I'll keep them! We've got Vogue dating back to 2005 I think.

I'll recycle over throwing out in the trash though. It's not that hard to sort it out and put it in a different bin.

Answer 7

Recycle bin.

Answer 8

Hi, you can  shred them and use them for packing things in boxes, or for pet bedding, shredded paper for gift bags, donate to your library, or if you have a local second hand store, like Savers or salvation army....or doctors office, nursing home or hospital

Answer 9

I will take them to a seniors centre or youth centre depending on the magazines day cares and play centres also like them things for the kids to cut out and paste,once they are well used then they get recycled

Answer 10

Recycle them!!!!!!!!!! Or, you can donate them to your local library!!!!!

Answer 11

The Kidney Foundation will pick up your old magagzines.  People on dialysis enjoy looking at appropriate magazines while they sit for several hours hooked up to a machine.  Hope this helps!