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judith



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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 05 11:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's useful information M. I have been carefully separating out the glossy paper. Nice to know I don't have to do that any more.

moogie



Joined: 02 Feb 2005
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Location: Near Bridgend
PostPosted: Tue May 10, 05 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have a shreader for shredding all my bills before putting them on the compost heap so don't need a newspaper

wellington womble



Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands
PostPosted: Tue May 10, 05 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Oh good, that's solved another waste problem (at least in principle) then!

Does anyone compost biodegradeable plastic bags? I'm tempted....

selfsufficientish



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 364
Location: Bristol
PostPosted: Tue May 10, 05 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Have met someone on anther forum who composts biodegradable bags. (Ecover do biodegradable bin bags too) There is a drawback, they can start to rot within a fortnight.

I pick up the metro every time I am on a bus, and if it is the bus that goes to both universties I take a few. By the end of the evening there are copies floating around every bus stop and the bus floor is littered with them. I figure at least if I take them home they will get recycled.

There are other uses for newpapers You can of course make newpaper pots https://www.selfsufficientish.com/newspaperpots.htm as I have in the past and also papier mache objects as I am experimenting with at the moment. Mind you Judy (ot woods) relably informs me that newpaper is not the strongest substance to use when making papier machie things.

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alison
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PostPosted: Sat May 14, 05 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We gave up taking a paper nearly 7 years ago now. I don't even watch the news.

I read from the headlines on my IP homepage, and my DH watches the news about 3 times a day and will pass on snippets.

n



Joined: 07 Jun 2005
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Location: Lothian
PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 05 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We get a paper at the weekend, and if we are on holiday. Mind you it does mean that a couple of hours go missing along the line when we lose track of time.
Two things though. First is that we try to encourage the teenagers in the house to engage with the world just a little, by reading the paper. They need the skill of reading for a purpose for school and for the future, if they go on to study, and a newspaper is a useful tool for that.
Second. I have just discovered Sudoku.... cue even more hours of uncommunicative silence while I work out that if there is a seven there and a three there then that means, cup of tea? can't you see I'm about to fill in the last line oh sod it have to start again.
n

Lozzie



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 05 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

LOL, n

We are super-cheeky and ask our neighbours if we can read their local daily paper the day after, once they have finished with it. Local papers are a goldmine of information and the small ads are normally quite entertaining too

Gave up broadsheets after we had kids - suddenly, the lie-in in bed on a Sunday morning evaporated. They seem to be so full of adverts and "this season's simply MUST-HAVE collection from our very own Pap Editor!"

Loz x

Bugs



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 05 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

See your point there, n, and it makes sense in that case. I just seem to never get round to reading 3/4 of the paper, it would be good for me no doubt though! (Haven't a clue what Sudoki is though!)

Agree with Lozzie too on the value of local papers - my parents' town has a daily paper, which is a good size and has lots of proper local news in it. I love reading it even when I go up there just to see, and I love reading other people's local papers. Sadly round here we have the choice of the Evening Standard, a local free weekly that barely even registers as a newspaper, or three or four advertiser/mirrors that none of them quite cover the region we live and work in . Oh, and they are broadsheets which is just silly

Must admit though that the other night when we had to bring some tender plants in overnight I couldn't find any newspaper to protect the kitchen table

wellington womble



Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands
PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 05 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My mum has just bought a house with land, and is sending out housewarming (camping!) invites with a alist of things she wants people to save for her - newspaper, loo rolls, plastic containers, water bottles........

Mr Womble and I fight over the newspapers in the winter, as we only get the weekly free one, and he wants it to light the fire, and I want it to make paper pots from!

joanne



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 05 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We don't get a daily paper - never have done although we do usually buy the 2 weekly local papers and we also get the free weeklies (2 atm) so our house always seems to have loads of newspaper about

I tend to wait until I have a decent amount and then shread it for the compost bin

I hadn't been shredding glossies though - will start that as I get Computing Weekly sent to my house.

I was never one for reading the paper rather read a good book and I find the dailies far too opinionated for my tastes anyway

Joanne

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