I wanted to express a belated thank you to everyone who replied on list and directly.
From a tip from my counterpart at a nearby institution, we found there’s a company in the area who claims to recycle books (“books” in the general sense, I don’t think physically
they make a distinction between monographs, periodicals and gov docs). It means leaving a big industrial-type dumpster in the parking lot with all the various fallout that can occur, but that appears to be our best option right now.
Incidentally if you would like to see what happened with our JSTOR 2010 withdrawal project in an open dumpster, check out the Kiva:
https://libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/jstor-withdrawals-igloo/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tuttlibrary/4817925377/in/photostream/
Appreciatively,
Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Tutt Library, Colorado College
diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389-6661
(719) 389-6082 (fax)
From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG]
On Behalf Of Diane Westerfield
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 9:19 AM
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Subject: [SERIALST] Recycling withdrawn bound periodicals?
Hi everyone,
My library is in the process of withdrawing a large number (5 digits) of bound periodicals and government documents. We thought we could just cut the covers off and throw
them in the trash, while recycling the "meat" of the volumes as paper. Cutting off covers actually saves a little time in terms of stamping and marking.
However, our recycling company has come back and said they can't deal with the volumes because of the glue in the binding. We would have to chop or saw the spines off so
all they have to deal with is the actual paper.
Anyone else run into this problem? And have a solution besides "send it all to the landfill"? I know PVA is used in commercial library binding and PVA is recyclable to
plastic but perhaps it contaminates paper recycling. We don't have a guillotine in the library building, which I imagine would be the easiest way to chop off book spines.
Thanks,
Diane Westerfield
Colorado College
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