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Thread Author: legacylad Replies: 20
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 Tue 11 Feb 14 19:24 
 Recycling magazines - legacylad
I recently stopped subscribing to Wanderlust magazine after several years. 6 issues a year, all neatly kept in proper date order in binders.
Neither my local doctors or dental surgery wanted them for their reception areas.
Seems a shame to take them for recycling at the tip, but I am having a mass clear out at home and going minimalist!
Can anyone suggest what else to do with them? Polite replies appreciated!
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 Tue 11 Feb 14 19:50 
 Recycling magazines - Dog
Try charity shops.
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 Tue 11 Feb 14 20:34 
 Recycling magazines - PhilW
"Can anyone suggest what else to do with them? Polite replies appreciated! "

I asked the same question about my over 40 years worth of National Geographics a while ago.
In the end I have been taking them (gradually!) to the local tip where they tell me to chuck them in the paper recycling skip. Seems a pity but nobody else wanted them (Doctors, dentists, schools etc)
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 Tue 11 Feb 14 22:10 
 Recycling magazines - Slidingpillar
Hospital outpatients?
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 Tue 11 Feb 14 22:38 
 Recycling magazines - Dulwich Estate
"Neither my local doctors or dental surgery wanted them for their reception areas."

I don't bother to ask ...... as every time I go to either I leave a handful of my old magazines on the table.

Strangely, they are never there when I go back despite finding things like copies of Hello Magazine dating back to 2005 still lying around.
Last edited by: Dulwich Estate on Tue 11 Feb 14 at 22:38
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 Tue 11 Feb 14 22:58 
 Recycling magazines - Duncan
>> Hospital outpatients?
>>

What 40 year old magazines for a hospital outpatients department?

Much too new for them, I am afraid!
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 09:47 
 Recycling magazines - Mapmaker
List them on eBay. Somebody might want them. But otherwise, there's nothing as out of date as an out-of-date magazine!
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 11:10 
 Recycling magazines - bathtub tom
Isn't there something about 'elven safety'? Spread of germs on the magazines and stuff?
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 11:48 
 Recycling magazines - Focusless
>> List them on eBay.

...with starting price 0p, no reserve, local pick-up only. That gives you the best chance of someone at least taking them off your hands, even if you don't make a fortune.
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 14:19 
 Recycling magazines - Ambo
You can probably drop a few here and there in hospital outpatients' and other waiting rooms without being noticed. Personally, I would welcome them, since waiting rooms seem to have only the trashiest women's mags these days. However, the boss of the dental surgery I use is a motor boating and car enthusiast and no doubt gets his mags as a business expense, to read and then pass on for patients.
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 14:31 
 Recycling magazines - Ambo
If Wanderlust is still in circulation advertise there. I sold several years' worth of Waterways World via that magazine and got a good price.
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 15:20 
 Recycling magazines - Crankcase
Always a good idea to hop onto eBay, search for your item and tick the "completed" box in the advanced settings.

If you do that for your magazine you will see eight bazillion listings, of which about eight bazillion-1 went unsold, so I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope for that route unless you have something very special.
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 15:39 
 Recycling magazines - Fenlander
Yep spot on Crankcase. Nothing to loose with one listing for the lot but the chances of selling are slim. Listing magazines as one-offs is a thankless task as you're lucky to sell one in twenty five. I take them to the tip unless really old/special.
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 16:10 
 Recycling magazines - Crankcase
Just going through this same pain with the contents of some boxes we unearthed in an early spring clean. We found dozens of maps, some Ordnance Survey UK ones, some of various continental publishers of France/Germany and so on, ranging in date from the 1980s back to about 1930.

Seems terrible to just bin them but even a cursory glance at eBay seems to show they won't sell. What can I do with maps?
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 16:22 
 Recycling magazines - Alanovich
Offer the maps to a local library?
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 16:23 
 Recycling magazines - Crankcase
>> Offer the maps to a local library?

That's a bonny idea. I like libraries more than almost anything. I shall ask. Ta.
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 16:19 
 Recycling magazines - Focusless
>> Nothing to loose with one listing for the lot but the
>> chances of selling are slim.

Not so much 'selling' as 'offering' if you start at 0p, slightly better odds.
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 16:53 
 Recycling magazines - Mapmaker
>>Always a good idea to hop onto eBay, search for your item and tick the "completed" box in the advanced settings.


I didn't know the title, so assumed from the sound that it was NSFW...
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 Wed 12 Feb 14 19:17 
 Recycling magazines - Aretas
Put them on Freecycle. I put several years of Nat. Geo. on Freecycle and they were collected by a student studying Geography and Theology. Made me think they would be put to good use.
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 Thu 13 Feb 14 11:18 
 Recycling magazines - Ambo
My local Oxfam is pleased to receive old OS maps.
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 Thu 13 Feb 14 11:20 
 Recycling magazines - Crankcase
If I'd gone into the library with some used midget clown pornography from 1972 they might have been more interested than they were in my maps, so I might well have to try a charity shop before weighing down the green bin next Wednesday.

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