How to Recycle Hardback Books
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Social Benefits of Recycling
Recycling can help the environment by reducing Co2 emissions, decreasing used space at local landfills, and reducing the amount of trees that need to be cut down to produce paper and other products. However, many recycling agencies are unable to recycle hardback books because the paper has not been removed from the binding. As a result, thousands of hardback books are discarded each year rather than being recycled.
When you have an obsolete or damaged hardback book, don't throw it away! Recycle it!
Continue reading to find out how to recycle unwanted hardback books.
When you have an obsolete or damaged hardback book, don't throw it away! Recycle it!
Continue reading to find out how to recycle unwanted hardback books.
Where to Recycle Hardback Books
Follow the link below to learn more about how to recycle your books!
Finding locations that will recycle hardback books can be challenging. Often, the time it takes to remove the pages from the binding is not cost effective for recycling companies.
Worldwide Book Drive is an organization which recycles both soft and hardback books. Contact the organization to find nearby drop boxes and receive more information concerning how to recycle your unusable or unwanted hardback books.
What's great about Worldwide Book Drive is that they provide work and income for over 100 mentally disabled adults in the recycling process. By working with various life skills centers throughout the country, workers are paid to remove the pages from the hard binding, thus allowing the books to be recycled. This partnership benefits both the global environment by eliminating waste and the mentally disabled workers by empowering them with feelings of confidence and independence AND money!
Worldwide Book Drive is an organization which recycles both soft and hardback books. Contact the organization to find nearby drop boxes and receive more information concerning how to recycle your unusable or unwanted hardback books.
What's great about Worldwide Book Drive is that they provide work and income for over 100 mentally disabled adults in the recycling process. By working with various life skills centers throughout the country, workers are paid to remove the pages from the hard binding, thus allowing the books to be recycled. This partnership benefits both the global environment by eliminating waste and the mentally disabled workers by empowering them with feelings of confidence and independence AND money!
- Worldwide Book Drive
- Our mission is to promote global literacy and to improve the environment through sustainable recycling and redistribution efforts.
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- For updates about recycling and redistribution efforts, visit Worldwide Book Drive's Facebook page.
Improving The Community One Book At A Time
There are more than enough books in the world today--the problem is getting the right books in the right place.
Worldwide Book Drive strives to improve the environment by recycling or redistributing used and unwanted books to people or locations that can use them. They help reduce paper waste in landfills and have recycled over 2 million pounds of paper just from old or damaged books! According to the EPA 83 million tons of waste paper products were generated in 2010. Just over half of the waste paper products were "recovered" (or in other words recycled). Books that are donated to Worldwide Book Drive are sorted based on category and condition. If the book is damaged beyond use, they recycle it! Check Out These Great Books on Amazon
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