I feel like a wasteful jerk

[RocketRollRebel]

Har Har all you funny yanks. I just throw it in my municipally provided blue recycling bin and every wednesday the city comes by in our municiapally funded recycling trucks and picks it up.. FOR FREE!

God I love taxes sometimes!

Socialist commie pinko! How dare you suggest such a thing! USA! USA! USA!

as for your boring politicians, you've gotta have some twittering, death paneling, folksy maverick nut jobs around somewhere. Its a big country! haha

*sorry for the rant... I know this is about sprue recycling but I got really annoyed that if its so easy for Canada, then why cant we do the same thing!?!?

Does anyone have any info on the GW recycling program?

Next best thing is as other people have suggested to make terrain out of them or find other creative uses for them.

[chromedog]

My sprues go into general recyc (we accept all plastics for recyc in my area).

The whole sprues get binned (barring any short lengths I may have cut up for other jobs.

I've never kept sprues in large amounts. Some sprues do get kept, but those are generally round ones used for making aerials and antennae (by heating and stretching over a flame).

[Wolfshade]

No, they are useful for scenery, building joists, bits of rubble, ladders the list is as endless as your imagination

[NealSmith]

1. Use as scenery... (yes and will continue)

2. Recycle at a GW shop... (closest one is about 7 hours away! Heck we even have an NHL team! )

3. Put in normal recycling... (Will do if I feel like I have too many for #1 above...)


All of the boxes and paper directions are recyclable too!

[TheKingElessar]

I don't think I can recycle them here in the UK, so I bin them, and always feel bad about it. Must ask in store if they will recycle them for me...

[Aldramelech]

I don't think I can recycle them here in the UK, so I bin them, and always feel bad about it. Must ask in store if they will recycle them for me...

Only if they pay me for them! Buggered if Im giving them back their plastic for free! lol

[Maria]

I don't think I can recycle them here in the UK, so I bin them, and always feel bad about it. Must ask in store if they will recycle them for me...

I put mine in the recycle bag along with all the other plastics, had no complaints yet!

[Aldramelech]

I put mine in the recycle bag along with all the other plastics, had no complaints yet!

You'll have the Council snooping around your back garden with telephoto lens's! lol

(Note to North Americans and other Aliens: Local authorities in England have tried to take several people to court over the contents of their home re-cycle bins. The Cases were dismissed due to a lack of photographic evidence! lol)

[Maria]

Hahaha I think rogue plastic would be the least of my worries then

[Schnitzel]

As I don't have the space for the hordes of sprues I collect over time, I tend to throw them out by the bin full. Just straight out into the garbage. Not a care in the world.
When I lived in Germany... yeah, I recycled. But only because it was what the German govt provided my Embassy with. In Austria though, straight trash can. In Oman, trash can again. When I get back to the states, trash can.
I'll start caring when its proven and accepted by the general public as a whole that global warming is man caused and not a natural occurring phenomenon.