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Donebrach t1_j31dnrj wrote

Furthermore, what big brained moron decided that recycling outside of a bin won’t be taken? Neighbor left out their tv box and it’s still there. Why won’t they just take fucking boxes??

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xenolingual t1_j31fyy8 wrote

Need to break it down into flat, smaller pieces of cardboard.

[edit] My partner has found the flyer we received when our large piece was rejected. It requested to cut the pieces down to approx 2 ft in length/width and remove plastic/tape if possible. We broke our box into pieces and folded each into something closer to 3x3, stack them; they took the stack sans issue.

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squid1980 t1_j31lhum wrote

Even if you break it down it has to be less than 2 feet by 2 feet. So for a tv you’d have to box cut the shit up. Ridiculous

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outb0undflight t1_j31kav1 wrote

There's always two answers people give to this and neither one is satisfactory:

a) break it down - which would be a reasonable suggestion except that when you break down a TV sized box it takes up like 90% of the tiny recycling bin we get, so now you have no room for all your other reycling.

b) "Most towns won't pick up recycling you just leave on the ground." - Maybe so, but I'd bet most of those towns give you a recycling bin that's big enough to hold more than a single box.

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xenolingual t1_j32awfy wrote

> a) break it down - which would be a reasonable suggestion except that when you break down a TV sized box it takes up like 90% of the tiny recycling bin we get, so now you have no room for all your other reycling.

They suggest that you stack the boxes flat and place them beneath or next to the recycling bin, similar to pizza boxes.

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outb0undflight t1_j32bmto wrote

I've done this and literally watched from my window as the trash collector picked up the box and threw it back on the ground.

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