How to Fucking Recycle in NYC
Paper
All your newspapers and magazines—you guys consume a lot of printed matter, I know—can be recycled in the city, as well as your Land’s End catalogs. Ditto paperback books (BUT WHO THROWS AWAY BOOKS? unless they’re phone books; who the hell uses phone books?), wrapping paper (just use newspaper), paper bags, cardboard egg cartons, and most cardboard in general, corrugated or smooth: Amazon delivery boxes, cereal boxes, shoe boxes, folders and tubes. Here’s where it gets tricky though: paper towels, napkins and toilet paper—that kind of paper—can’t be recycled, so if you want to recycle the inner tube, get the little bits that stick to the glue off, ok? Hardcover books can’t go into the recyclables—again, who’s throwing away books?—as well as paper soiled with food and shit or waxy paper like the other kind, the classic kind, of Chinese takeout containers. [photo]